Week 2

We have had some amazing reading progress in Room 0 - well done to those children who have moved up a level (some moved more than 1 level).

We enjoyed wrapping up warm to walk down and see the Tour of Southland Cyclists whizz past today, we were very lucky that the sun shone the whole time we were away from school!  It was a shame that Brett (who visited us at school last week) from the Share the road team had to pull out, we had made special flags to cheer him on.  We were on the look out for the purple/orange and white tops - this is the share the road colours. 

We had our school photos yesterday, unfortunately Mrs Eade was sick and couldn't make it to school for the photos - but never fear... Geoff the photographer is so clever, he is able to take a photo of Mrs Eade and using his computer cut and paste and make it look like she was there! 

All our Tadpoles  now have back legs, we said a sad goodbye to Frank the Frog on Monday, as he had turned into a frog over the weekend and needed to be released into the wild.  We are sure he is loving his new home and making lots of little frog friends!  It won't be long before the rest of his buddies from our class are able to join him.

Hope everyone has a warm, safe weekend, Mrs Eade will see you all on Monday for Week 3 (5 weeks to go - it's going too quickly!) Keep up with your reading.

Mrs Eade

Welcome Back to Term 4

Welcome back to Term 4 and what a busy term it is going to be!  With only 7 weeks and a couple of days (1 week of which is already done and dusted!) so 6 and a bit weeks to go!

This week we will begin our practice for our Concert item, it is based around our Term 3 inquiry of Kiwiana.  You will receive a note home with your child's costume requirements in due course for this.

EXCITING NEWS!!!!!  We have a froglet!!!!!  We've name him Frank and over the holidays some of the tadpoles got their back legs and Frank got both his back and then his front legs!  He still has his tail so is not quite a frog yet.  He is super cute, he likes to get up onto the rock in the fish tank and he can also climb up the side of the tank - isn't he clever!!  We are so excited to see the changes our tadpoles are making - make sure you pop in to see our little friends!

We are all working hard to move up the reading rocket, we know that to become better readers we need to be reading every night, so please help us out and remind us to read our reading book to as many people as we can.

We welcomed 2 new children to the class on the first day back - Welcome Talia and Kaine.  We now have 12 children in Room 0.  We love that our class is growing and we have more wonderful children to interact and learn with.

We had heaps on fun on Friday dressing up as All Blacks to celebrate their World Cup trophy win!  Keep an eye out on the local newspaper... we had our picture taken while doing the Haka with the rest of the school before assembly!

This term for sports we are having a rotation system working with different teachers learning different skills.  Children have been reminded to make sure they wear their sports uniform on Wednesdays.

Pioneer Park visit

If you click on Inquiry (along the top), you will be able to see some photos of our Pioneer Park visit!

Letter of the Week - Nn

This week our letter of the week is Nn.

We made some Nose and glasses disguises, can you work out who is who??

How did you go at guessing??

Speeches

We have been working on making a speech.

Our speech is about what we know about tadpoles.

We needed to complete our "burger" when making a speech, it needed an introduction (the bottom bun), our information (the filling) and a conclusion (the top bun).

Mrs Eade recorded our speeches and then we watched them and gave ourselves some feedback.  We all decided we needed to speak louder and look at the camera to make our speeches better.  Then Mrs Eade recorded us again and we watched to see if we had done this.

Here are our second attempt at our speeches.  Do you think we have used a loud clear voice?  Did we look at the camera?  Leave us a comment to tell us how you think we did!

Speeches

We recorded our speeches today!

Mrs Eade is working hard to get them on the blog, but it takes a while to upload it onto the computer, so fingers crossed they are finished and on here by tomorrow! 

:) Check back tomorrow to watch our fantastic speeches!

Celebration!

Congratulations to Ben and Chonelle - they have both learnt all 40 basic sight words!!

There were also lots of us who either moved up a level for our sight words or only have 1 or 2 to go until we can move up!

Mrs Eade is so proud of you all, you are working so hard! Ka pai!

New Class Members!

Room 0 have some new class members - TADPOLES!!!



Our Tadpoles will grow and turn into Frogs.
We have been reading about the life cycle of a frog.

Eggs - tadpoles - grow back legs - grow front legs - tail gets smaller (froglets) - frogs, then the female frog lays eggs again when she is about 3 years old and the cycle starts again!

Come in and check out our Tadpoles!

SMARTS group - Native Garden

Today the Native Garden SMARTS group planted half of our native garden.  We planted some flaxes and some different hebes.

Check out some of the kids with Neil planting...

Here we all are with Neil and Mrs Eade and our Native Garden

A big HUGE Thank you to Neil for all his hard work preparing the ground and also organising the purchase of our native plants and delivery!  He has been amazing!

A big thank you also to Jesse's Mum Marion for coming along and helping out with the planting.

A big thank you also goes to Alexa and her Mum Toni for buying us a hebe for our garden!

Wow - the term is flying!

Mrs Eade can hardly believe how quickly the term is just flying by!  It's week 7 already!

Only 3 weeks to go after this one ends.  We have been working so hard in Room 0. 

Today we joined in with all the little stars - we love being able to show the kids not yet at school what we can do and how clever we all are. 

We have a few new faces in our class last week with Calab, Neela, Georjah and Jayden joining us.  We now have 9 kids in our class!!  We can't wait for Harry to start and then we will have 10 kids!

Mrs Eade hopes parents are enjoying reading each night with their children and encouraging them to learn their sight words and alphabet letters and sounds, remember that these are so important for us to learn and know as they will help us with our reading and our writing - wow!!

Kia Ora everyone!

If you have a spare minute or two, go and have a look at our Maths and Writing pages, Mrs Eade has added some of our fabulous work! 

I hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine, we love being able to get outside and have a run around at morning tea and lunch time.

Today we got to go out with Room 1 and practice our passing and catching and also bouncing with a big ball.  We are also learning how to play "Rob the Nest", we are working hard to take turns and listen carefully to the instructions.  Mrs Eade will try and remember to take her camera out next week so she can take some photos of our amazing ball skills!

Big Book

Wow - today we recorded ourselves reading our big book!!  Please click on the Big Book tab at the top and have a look!

Thank you
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Thanks,
Mrs Eade