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Term 4, 2014 overview

Welcome back to school for our last term of the year 

All the children in Room 1 had a good rest over the holidays after our busy time with the school production last term.  Everyone has arrived back at school refreshed and eager to learn for our final term of the year. Our learning overview for this term is as follows:

Some reminders: 

Technology: Please help your child to collect clean waste materials such as plastic bottles and packaging to reuse for our technology project. Bring them to school in a named plastic bag. Any extra clean waste materials can be shared. There is a green box to put them into near the sink in Room 1.

Speeches: A letter will be sent home soon with information about writing a short speech (2 minutes) to present to the class. Please support your child with deciding on a subject for their speech. A topic they feel passionate about and have some knowledge of is a best. They will need to find information relating to this topic both at home and at school, in order to write an interesting speech.

Pohutukawa Sports: Please ensure your child is wearing suitable shoes for our athletic sports rotation on Fridays and for practising sprint running on other days.
Swimming: The pool is open and we will begin swimming a little later in the term when the weather is warmer.

Library Day: Monday    Swimming Day: To be advised

Welcome to Room 1
Term 3, 2014

This year our learning theme is SURVIVAL

     This term we will be learning about...

Performing Arts:
Dance and drama for our performance in the school production this term.

We are learning to... 
create a sequence of movements in time to music; work cooperatively with others to create a dance sequence.

LITERACY: 
Reading books. Writing about our personal experiences, report writing and retelling narratives
MATHS: 
Number knowledge and strategy.  Geometry -  We are learning to name and describe 2 and 3 dimensional shapes.
VISUAL ART: 
Drawing and painting - WALT mixed media and Maori motifs to create an artwork
HEALTH & P.E & Sport: Jump Jam.  

e-LEARNING: blogging, kidpix (to share on our class blog)
HOMEWORK...

Reading: Books go home Monday to Thursday and our poem of the week on Fridays.
Spelling:  Spelling notebooks go home each night with 3 words to learn. 
N.B. Please ensure the notebook is in your child's book bag every day as they will be learning these words at school and testing each other (buddy testing) each Friday.

 Important times...

                           Library: Monday
                           Creative Design: Friday 

                           School Assembly: Every Tuesday of odd numbered weeks.

                           Singing Assembly: Every Tuesday of even numbered weeks.

    ​Pohutukawa Sports: Every Friday at 9:00 - weather dependent.  
    N.B. Please send your child to school wearing appropriate footwear for playing sport. For example: trainers or sneakers.
       
We are looking forward to another wonderful term of learning.                                            

Debra LawsonTeacher Room 1
Lead teacher for Positive Behaviour for Learning

Helava's holiday project

Helava's Holiday Project

In the holidays I made a unicorn.
It has lovely wings  they are rainbow colours.
We haven't finished yet we are
going to paint the unicorn white. The unicorn's name is Uni. 

Mikki
On Arbor Day I planted a tree with Dean.

Mikki
On Arbor Day everybody planted a plant.

Jacob

Jacob

It was fun planting the two plants.                       I planted a herb plant.

Felix
I planted a
Seed and
it was
easy.

Charlie R

Charlie R
 We have an awesome balcony planter.

Charlie R
I am putting soil on a plant.

Gus
On Arbor  Day
we planted trees.
It was fun.

Gus
Room 9 helped
us. 

Luka
I am  watering the plant.

       

Luka 
I am planting a plant for Arbor Day.

Megh
On Arbor day we watered some 
plants and covered them in soil.

Megh
This is me planting some kind of
seed.

Sam
We are trying to save the trees and plant as 
many as trees as we can.

Sam
I love Arbor Day because we can plant trees like pohutukawa trees.

Artus
We need water to make the plants grow tall and strong and we need them to grow into trees.

Reuben

This is our class planter outside room 1. It is tied with rope onto a bar. There are rosemary and thyme herbs in it.

Silvie
I loved it when I got to dig a big hole.

Silvie
Planting a tree was cool!

Kyla
I am watering a tree in the forest.

Kyla
I am putting soil onto a plant.
I like arbor day because I got to plant some plants.

How plants and animals survive in the forest

Room 1 Fabric & Fibre Art

Last term we found natural materials on our forest floor to create our fabric and fibre artwork.  

We placed our natural treasures on a piece of fabric, took photos using an ipad and then we returned our materials to the forest floor.  

My art  is a  catapult. I  found  berries and a  flat  piece of wood in the forest.

Room 1's Fabric & Fibre Art work

I made a person.   It  is a face.  There is a skeleton leaf on top  of  the  leaf. By Artus

Welcome to Room 1Term 2, 2014

The year our learning theme is SURVIVAL

     This term we will be learning about...

SOCIAL STUDIES:
How the past is important to people and how people make choices to meet their needs and wants


LITERACY: 
Reading books. Writing about our personal experiences, report writing and retelling narratives

MATHS:
Number knowledge and strategy.  Measurement - Time. We are learning to: name the days of the week in order; use a calendar to read the months of the year; read time on an analog clock in hours, half hours, and quarter hours; read digital times on a timetable


VISUAL ART:
Drawing and painting - WALT mixed media and Maori motifs to create an artwork
HEALTH & P.E & Sport: Cross Country & Jump Jam.  Te Reo Kori (Maori action games)
e-LEARNING: blog, kidpix (to share on our class blog)


HOMEWORK...

Reading: Books go home Monday to Thursday and our poem of the week on Fridays.
Spelling:  Spelling notebooks go home each night with 3 words to learn.
N.B. Please ensure the notebook is in your child's book bag every day as they will be learning these words at school and testing each other (buddy testing) each Friday.

Important times...

                           Library: Monday
                           Music: Thursday 9.00 a.m. with Ros

                           School Assembly: Every Tuesday of odd numbered weeks

                           Singing Assembly: Every Tuesday of even numbered weeks

    ​Pohutukawa Sports: Every Friday at 9:00 - weather dependent
    N.B. Please send your child to school wearing appropriate footwear for playing sport. For example: trainers or sneakers.
     

We have been writing about when the Cracker Jack visitors, Maia Jackman and Jordan Cruickshank, came to talk to us at our school assembly. 

Pohutukawa Posters 2014

                                 Welcome to the Pohutukawa Poster's Room 1 blog

This term we are getting to know each other and learning classroom routines. 

We are learning all about Statistics and becoming "Data Detectives"!
We are asking questions, finding answers to these questions and displaying data (information) on a picture graph, also called a pictograph.  

We began by asking everyone in our class this question:  "When is your birthday?" 

We each drew a picture of ourselves and made a picture graph or pictograph by gluing our drawing above the month that our birthday is in. 

We were able to talk about the months of the year that had the most, the least or the same number of birthdays. 

Here is a photograph of Emily, Meera Bai and Silvie who all had their birthdays in the Christmas holidays.  They are standing near Room 1's birthday picture graph or pictograph.

  Happy birthday girls!