Being A Learner: The 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: Reading Action Stations

This term we have started a new programme at Reading Time called Action Stations.  This involves the children working through different stations of reading activities independently.  The teachers still take reading groups like normal.   These are set up before school so parents can explore the activities with their children.   We are enjoying the new activities and having the choice of what activities we do first.  We have special rules and things to focus on.  At the end of each session we take time to reflect on our learning.  

Billie on Reading Eggs at the iPad Station

Rocko, Ngatea and Mitchell at the Letter Hunt Station

Ocean at the Mini Rainbows Station

Amazon at the Writing Postcards Station

Choosing our station and moving our name.

Choosing our station and moving our name in the Learning Centre.

The Activboard Station

Telesia at the Listening Post Station listening to reading books. 

The 'Magic Water' Station!  Here we practise writing sight words, spelling words and letters.

The Post Box Station is where we write something to a friend.  This week we wrote compliments.

Nikora reading The New Cat at the Listening Post Station.  

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

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 Ff.  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 about the letter Ff 

that we might like.  

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

Room One Spelling Superstars

These cool people got 100% in their weekly spelling test.  Miss Collins has started a ' Room One Super Star Spellers' wall on the window.  She writes up the names up in special window pens so everyone can see.  They also got to pick from the prize box.  

We look forward to more names next week! 

Well done Tredestiny, Cody and Mualijcia!

A Funny Swimming Poem...

Here is a wee poem to get you ready for swimming and to have a giggle about... 

Click on the picture or the title and you can hear the poet read this poem aloud.  

Swimming Ool Swimming in the swimming pool is where I like to "B," wearing underwater goggles so that I can "C." Yesterday, before I swam, I drank a cup of "T." Now the pool is just an "ool" because I took a "P." --Kenn Nesbitt

One Of Our Favourite Things At School Is...Make And Do

One of our favourite things at school is Make and Do.  Make and Do is something that we usually do on  a Wednesday.  Each week Miss Collins writes Room One a set of instructions on how to make something.   Usually it is something to do with the alphabet letter that we are learning that week.  We read through the instructions together and Miss Collins puts pictures to help us.  

We follow the instructions to make something.  When we are following the instructions we are also practising skills we need for school and life like cutting out tricky shapes, following instructions and making sure that we can comprehend or understand what we have read.   So far we have made snakes, alligators, turtles, pigs,  nests and cute cats.  We look forward to each weeks Make and Do.  Afterwards the children take them home as they want to show their families how clever they are and how their cutting skills are improving!    

Hers are some of the Room One Super Stars...

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.

Art And Alphabet In Room One

This week we have been learning the letter Kk.  We brainstormed things that started with Kk and came up with King, kangaroo, kiwifruit, kiwi, keys and koala.  As part of Reading we made crowns so we could be Kings and the girls could be Queens.  We even put jewels on our crowns like Kings and Queens.

As part of Art we have been learning to draw ourselves.  We drew our face and shoulders using pencil and then we traced over our lines with black marker.  We also painted crowns and sprinkled glitter on them to make them sparkly.  Then Miss Collins cut them out and stuck them on us.  We did a great job of drawing our face and we remembered to put all of the things on our face like eyebrows, ears and a nose.  

Don't we look very royal!

Room One in their crowns with their self portrait.

Ahoy Me Hearties - Pirate Party Cakes

In Room One we have been learning to identify the letter P, write it and find it in words.    To help us learn the letter P, Miss Collins made us Pirate treasure Hunt.  We all dressed up as pirates and had to find and read clues to work out where the treasure was.  Miss Collins helped us read the clues.  We had to go to a lot places that started with P like the pantry, a pigeon hole, the Principal and the photocopier.

Eventually we found the treasure by reading all of the clues and Mrs Woodhall 

had it in her Office.  The treasure was Pirate Party Cakes!  They were really yummy!

We looked at the photos and we wrote about our Pirate Party Cakes.  You can read these on the wall in our classroom.

We had lots of fun learning about the letter P!

Room One as pirates.

Makayla with a clue. 

Judah with a clue

Aiden the pirate

 

Arghhhhh!

Hiram with a clue.

 

On the hunt for treasure!

Arnika-Rose with a clue

Mrs Devonald reading a clue.

Aiden with the clue from the pantry.

Ms Smith - the Principal with a clue.  Principal starts with P!



Makayla with clue 9.



Logan with clue 10.



Yay we found the treasure!

Mrs Woodhall with the treasure!

Pirate party cakes!  Yum!