Being A Learner: Our Letter of the Week is... Ss

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

This week our Poem is a tongue twister...

Here is a video clip to help us learn our tongue twister...

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

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

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

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

Being A Learner: It's the Holidays!

Yay!  It's the holidays!  

Here are 10 ideas to try that are free or cheap!

1. Take a walk in the Botanical Gardens and Hagley Park
2. Visit the Canterbury Museum
3. Walk the Bridle Path
4. Bake at home using our Basic Biscuit recipe on the blog, decorate and EAT!
5. Make a hut inside using blankets and chairs and then have a picnic inside it. 
6. Go on a colour hunt in your house. Take photos of a certain colour and make a PicCollage.
7. Write a letter to someone
8. Visit the local Library and get some books out
9. Make a “city” with cars, toys and boxes for buildings
10.  Make a mini-themed play area: in a large rectangle bucket or tray create your own play scene. For example: use a smaller container (like an empty margarine container) filled with water, and in the rectangle bucket place rocks, small twigs, bark or sticks from trees for an outdoor scene

We look forward to hearing about your holiday adventures!

Being A Learner: Using Devices to Support Our Learning

This term the Kakano Teachers want to incorporate the iPads and computers more into their teaching and learning programmes in Term 2.  We have dabbled in Term 1 and are excited about the students enthusiasm and the opportunities that the devices provide.     

Please ensure that the home apps that your child has on their iPad are suitable for school and are age appropriate.  

For the students who are bringing their own device can they please have the FREE apps listed below.   

Apps:

• Pic Collage - great for creating and sharing learning
• QR Reader - accessing websites safely
• iMovie (comes free with iPad)
• Blogger - A Google tool
• Dropbox - A place to store files
• Mathletics - A programme that the school provides a free subscription for
• Reading Eggs - - A programme that the school provides a free subscription for
• Lark - great for creating and sharing learning
• Wonderbox - an exploring and creating app designed for young children
• Chatterkid - Oral language, sharing our thinking and creating app
• You Tube - a place to support our learning
• Google Suite - Chrome, Classroom, Slides, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Gmail, maps

Great Apps which cost that we will be using on the class iPads which you may choose to purchase:

• Explain Everything
• Easy Blogger

Here is a picture to help you find the apps:

Here are the Google Apps:

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: Room One's Letter of the Week is... Yy

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

Each week we focus on a letter 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 Yy.  

This week we are learning about the letter Yy.  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 Yy that we might like.  

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

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

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

This week we are learning about the letter Ll.  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.  

How many Ll words can you see and hear in this You Tube Clip Room One?

 Thank  you to http://ABCmouse.com/LearnMore

Learning About the Letter Oo!

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

This week we are learning about the letter Oo.  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.  Oo is tricky as it is a vowel and has short and long sounds.  

Room One what can you think of that begins with Oo?

Here is a song to get you started!

Watch this space to see what we learn this week! 

Learning The Days of The Week

As part of out time learning, we have been learning the days of the week.  Miss Collins taught us a song off You Tube called Days Of The Week.   

We love singing this song and often find ourselves singing it to ourselves during the day.  It is helping us to learn the days of the week.  

You can click on the link above or on the picture below.

Wonderful Room One Linwood North Learners

Wow!  We have finished our second week of school and what a great week of learning we have had.  Room One LOVES Reading!  We are superstars at pointing to each word.  Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard are very excited about the cool books we will be able to read soon.  

Room One have made a great start on their Home Learning and it has been awesome seeing the Room One students reading nights adding up in their notebook.  Both Teachers are looking forward to giving out the first 25 nights certificate!  Keep reading!  

We thought we introduce the first 2015 learners in Room One...

This is Izzan and he started this week.  Izzan enjoys reading and likes our class fish Ma and Karaka.

This is Micheal and he is a pointing superstar.  Micheal enjoys fitness and can run really fast.

This is Dupree and he does everything with this wonderful smile.  Dupree is a super messenger.

This is Naomi and she enjoys drawing.  Naomi is great friend to the other children in Room One.

This is Justine and she loves School.  Justine is the most amazing dancer and loves to take risks and try new things.

This is Mitchell and he is a confident LNS learner.  Mitchell is a superstar at writing and enjoys writing stories.

This is Jaedyn and he loves to draw pictures.  Jaedyn is a superstar at thinking of ideas to write stories about.

This is Aurora and she is a great friend to others.  Aurora enjoys exploring the Learning Centre.

This is Zivan and he loves coming to school.  Zivan is great at getting ready to start the day and at packign his bag at the end of the day by himself. 

This is Ferishta and she is a superstar at getting her work finished.  Ferishta loves learning new things!

This is Rahnui and Miss Fraser.  Rahnui is a special member of Room One and loves being read to by other children.  This children in Room One have been making Rahnui a special feelie book.  Rahnui loves music and responds with lots of laughter and smiles.