Term 3 - Week 1

This week we welcomed 7 new students, there seems to be lots of children turning 5! Api, Tama, Ben, Amelia, Knut, Eleanor and Hadrian have all made an excellent start in Room 8. Next week we have even more new students joining us.

We have all had a great time learning about movement over the last few days. The children have been busy building towers, creating marble and ball runs, transporting stones and many other things. There is so much learning we can have through play. Here are some photos of our investigations:

Working together to build a tower. The children thought hard about how they could make it steady.

The children wanted to move the stones around and decided the water tray would be a great way to do this.

The wheel barrow also came in handy.

Looking carefully to see what happened to the ball.

What a masterpiece!

Inside the class there was more building, here the children are making their own marble run.

Koby set himself the challenge of building a tower higher than 1 metre. It took many attempts and much perseverance but he finally got there.

The beginning of a new term means it is our turn for 'No Child Left Inside' again. On Monday we sent some time with the quoits practising throwing. It was very tricky to get to over the stick or in the hoop but a few children managed it.

On Friday we attempted to hold the Great Dart Throwing Extravaganza, unfortunately the wind got the better of us. Perhaps we will hold a rematch next week.

See you all on Monday.

Term 2 - Week 9

On Monday we had a visit from the New Zealand Playhouse who put on a play for us called 'The Fairest of Them All'. In the show Snow White gets sent back to the forest by the Magic Mirror and needs the help of the Seven Dwarfs once again. The children loved the performance and there were many laughs. Here are some pictures from the performance:







Week 9 really was the week for visitors! We also had Jerri who used to work at Nayland Primary sometimes came to Room 8. Jerri is an author who has written a book called Kate and Caboodle. It is a fabulous story and the children loved the opportunity to listen to a story being read by its author.

The children may have talked to you about our new handwriting programme called 'Casey Caterpillar'. The photo below shows children practising some of the shapes needed to form letters correctly. More information will be coming home about this soon so keep an eye out.

We were also lucky enough to get some new sports equipment. After waiting a few days for some sunshine it was finally nice enough to go out and practise with them. Everyone listened carefully and threw the ball to their partner.