Room 1 Blog: Week 4 Update

Kia Ora Whanau

The children put on an awesome production at the Whole School Assembly on Thursday. Thank you to those parents who came along to watch. I have uploaded the video of the play to the blog.

Review of the Week
* We continued to learn about statistics in maths. We did this by comparing the number of pets that the children in Room 1 have with the number of pets that children in Room 4 have. We have presented our data in various ways.
* Much of our literacy time was spent practising for the play and the assembly. We also continued to look at different types of birds in our reading groups. We started our 'We are....' writing exercise.
* In Art we are learning about self portraits. We are finding this quite a tough exercise!
* We have had some discussion around how to be positive and the impact that has on the group.

Week 5
* A big focus for the week will be our 'We are....' exercise. We will be producing a class poster and each of us will be writing a postcard and sending it to a class at Torbay School on the North Shore in Auckland. This is predominately a writing exercise with a focus on metaphors.
* We will get underway with our maths groups and will focus on place value.
* There will be heaps of sport on this week culminating in the School Swimming Sports on Friday afternoon.
* On Thursday we will start to focus our attention on Camp. We go to Wainui from 20-22 March. I popped out on Thursday to inspect the camp. I have attached a few pics.

Reminders
* Please check that your child comes to school each day with a hat and drink bottle.
* There are 3 weeks left of swimming. Children must bring their togs on a Monday and Thursday. If they are not swimming please send them to school with a note as to the reason why they are not to swim. I have duty on Monday, Girls cricket at lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday this week but I will be able to take the children for a lunchtime swim on Thursday.