Beats and Rhythms in Room 7.

Room 7 have enjoyed two different, yet similar music lessons with two different, yet similar teachers, recently! Mrs Johnson has enjoyed watching these teachers enjoy her class of fabulous children as much as she does!!! Way to go Room 7.

PLAYBALL in the Junior school

The great team of coaches from Playball kept the Juniors busy with ball skills for an hour today. The children were put into their class groups and moved around to each activity. There were five coaches, five groups of children and five teachers assisting. It was wonderful to see how each child participated with enthusiasm and enjoyment whilst learning and practicing great ball skills. We are looking forward to doing it all over again next week!

Room 9's Assembly

Recently Room 9 presented to the school assembly the water cycle. We felt very proud being up on the stage sharing what we had learned with our audience.

We are learning to find the letters on the keyboard of the laptops. We can type our names and we have been writing sentences with our buddies. Some of us are getting quite good at making capital letters and full stops too. We wear our computer safety lanyards. One day we will be able to publish our writing on the laptops.

A Visit from Cookie and Gizmo

On Friday afternoon I had my doggies visit Room 7 and Room 8. It was a nice follow-up to the Animal Management Study a week or so ago. As you can see the visit was a great success... and i apologise in advance to those parents who now have children nagging for a puppy!! From Mrs Johnson.

Animal Management

We had a visit from Animal Management who taught us how to treat dogs nicely and how to be safe around dogs.

We learnt to stand still and keep a close eye on dogs we don't know.

We know to ask the owner before we go up to, or touch any dog.

Symmetry and Flowers

Room 7 have been learning about symmetry and reflection.

We cut snowflake shapes and used mirror to check the reflection for symmetry.

Then... Last weekend, Jasmine went to the Howick Historical Village 'Old Fashioned Day' and learned to use doilies to make little flower posies.

She realised that our snowflakes would do the same job so she taught everyone how to make a posy for our Mums. Well done, Jasmine.

Room 8 learning about SHAPE.

Our Maths strand is about SHAPE. We have been discovering the names of the different shapes and learnt that the number of points that each shape has can help us to remember what their names are.

We built things out of the giant leggo block at lunch time.

Tomoko came to our class to show us how to fold paper into shape that can be made into other shapes. This is called origami.

We had great fun! Thank you Tomoko!

In The Light of the Moon... A Little Egg Lay on a Leaf...

We thoroughly enjoyed the dvd of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" today, and then followed it by listening to the story on a CD read by Eric Carle himself.
We enjoyed his accent as much as the story!
We then decorated a themed flag to go home with a leaf with a little Easter Egg on it.
We shall eat them "in the light of the moon!"
By Room 7.

Last Day of Swimming for the Year.

Swimming has been ongoing since November last year.
What a fabulous stretch we have had.
I am pleased to say that in Room 7, I have not had a single note from a single parent excusing their child from swimming! Remembering that these children are only aged 5.
These photos speak for themselves the advantages gained by the students; many of whom did not like to get their faces wet earlier this year!!

Stuffed Easter Eggs

Room 7 had a lovely time making hanging stuffed Easter Eggs. We did a design with pencil, followed by permanent marker, colourful pastels and then dye. They are hanging up in the class and we welcome people to come and check them out.
As you can see last year's addition of classroom double doors and outside sink are a great asset.