Being A Learner: Room One's Dance Item!

Here is our dance item from The Magic Faraway Tree

Being A Learner: Room One's Letter Of The Week Is Pp!

Room One's Letter of the Week is... Pp

We have learnt all of the letters of the alphabet and are back at the beginning. 

 We use the Jolly Phonics order to teach our letters. 

 So we don't teach the letters/sounds A, B, C etc. 

 The order we use is... s, a, t, i, p, n ck, e, h, r, m, d g, o, u, l, f, b ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or z, w, ng, v, oo(book), oo (moon) y, x, ch, sh, th.  

We use this order so that we can learn to quickly write small words like sat, sit, pit, pin, tin etc. 

 Each child has a sounds booklet to practice at home. We also use this video clip at school each day to help us. Each week we focus on a letter/sound to learn, read and write about. We do this through phonics, singing, reading stories, handwriting, alphabet activities, letter writing, play dough, Language Experience, make and do and lots of other things. 

This week for Language Experience we are making something beginning with Pp. Can you think of something that begins with Pp?

 This week we are learning about the letter Pp. 

 We will learn its name, its sound, how to write and recognise it and about some things that begin with this letter. 

 The teachers love planning exciting learning experiences to help us learn our letters. 

 At the moment we LOVE alphabet songs so Miss Collins has posted a couple of videos/songs about the letter Pp that we might like. 

 How many Pp words can you see and hear in these You Tube Clips Room One?

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Being A Learner: Fabulous Fractions

Over the last two weeks Room One have been learning about fractions.  Our Teachers found that when they tested us we didn't know about halves and quarters so they decided to teach us about them so that we know what these words mean.  Our Teachers planned lots of cool activities like fraction fairy bread, cutting up shapes, making pizza, cutting up fruit and cutting and eating cake.  We enjoyed making the connection with food and our everyday world.  We also did some sorting of fractions and cut up strips and labelled them.  Learning was lots of fun!  

Here are some photos our learning about Fabulous Fractions...

Being A Learner: Room One's Letter of the Week is... Ii

Room One's Letter of the Week is... Ii

We have learnt all of the letters of the alphabet and are back at the beginning.  We use the Jolly Phonics order to teach our letters.  So we don't teach the letters/sounds A, B, C etc.  

The order we use is... 

s, a, t, i, p, n
ck, e, h, r, m, d
g, o, u, l, f, b
ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or
z, w, ng, v, oo(book), oo (moon)
y, x, ch, sh, th


We use this order so that we can learn to quickly write small words like sat, sit, pit, pin, tin etc.  Each child has a sounds booklet to practice at home.  We also use this video clip at school each day to help us.  

Each week we focus on a letter/sound to learn, read and write about.  We do this through phonics, singing, reading stories, handwriting, alphabet activities, letter writing, play dough, Language Experience, make and do and lots of other things.

This week for Language Experience we are making something beginning with Ii.  Can you think of something that begins with Ii.  

This week we are learning about the letter Ii.    We will learn its name, its sound, how to write and recognise it and about some things that begin with this letter.   

The teachers love planning exciting learning experiences to help us learn our letters. 

At the moment we LOVE alphabet songs so Miss Collins has posted a couple of videos/songs about the letter Aa that we might like.  

How many Ii words can you see and hear in these You Tube Clips Room One?

Being A Learner: Our Kapahaka and Pasifika Group Perform!

On Thursday 3rd September our Kapahaka and Pasifika groups performed at the Christchurch Cultural Festival.  Here is a video of our school performance.  

Room One had some siblings performing and we felt proud of them and their hard mahi.  

Being A Learner: Fabulous Fractions in Room One

This week we have been learning about fractions in Room One.  We have been investigating halves and quarters of different things like play dough, fairy bread and fruit.  Yesterday Mr Woods, our school caretaker found us some oranges in the shed and he thought they could help us with our learning.  The children told Miss Collins about how much fruit they had in their hand or mouth.  

Miss Collins thought the photos were fantastic!