Discovery Learning - Toast

On Friday mornings Room 1 has Discovery Learning Time with our Buddy classes; Rooms 4 and 5 .

In Room 1, we have toast.

While we are putting margarine on our toast, with jam or marmite or sometimes both!

We are learning to remember to wash our hands before we have make the toast and 

then put our paper towel into the yellow bin.  

After that, we are learning how to use a knife, how to wait and take turns, how to share, how to ask for the margarine, jam or marmite.

Once we have done that, we move to the "eating table" and there we talk about all sorts of things;

what we like on our toast, what we are going to do next with out buddy, what we are going to do in the weekend, and sometimes we just sit and eat and listen to others talk.

I Can Write

Anumitha, Aalia and Kato are so onto their reading, they read, 

"I Can Write."

Here they are writing on different surfaces.

"I can write on the concrete," said Kato.

"I can write on the concrete," said Aalia.

"I can write on the whiteboard," said Kato.

"I can write on the whiteboard," said Anumitha.

"I can write on the whiteboard," said Aalia.

Here Comes the Shapes

Jill Eggleton has been reading,

"Here Comes the Shapes."

This is what they have made out of their shapes.

Kato and Tabitha

Kato and Tabitha did the alphabet puzzle together and 
in no time they had completed it.  

Well done you two.

It was tricky, but they didn't give up and they worked as a team.

Didn't they do well!

I Can Read

The first book the Jenny Hessell Group read was," I Can Read."
On each page the child reads to a different person.

Here are the Jenny Hessell Group doing just that.

"I can read to my friend Aalia," said Anumitha.

"I can read to my sister," said Kato.

"I can read to my friend Anumitha," said Aalia.

Guided Reading in Room 1

Our Guided Reading Groups are named after
 New Zealand Authors.

Jenny Hessell

Lynley Dodd

Jill Eggleton

Margaret Mahy

Joy Cowley

During the year the children will learn about these New Zealand Authors and read the books that they have written,  Most probably some will already be familiar with, "Grandma McGarvey",  "Hairy Maclary", "Mrs Wishy Washy", "I wish my mother was a Pirate", and school favourite, "The Giant's Ice Cream," and many more.

Room 15

Room 15 came from Rooms 2 & 3  in 2016.  

They started in Room 15 in the middle of 

Term 2 2016 with 20 children.  

We have had such a great year and 

now they are ready to move on.

Good luck for 2017.