Being Respectful, Being A Learner, Being Responsible = Good As Gold

Here is Room One's Gold Award Winner for August! 

 Congratulations Nikora, you are as 'Good As Gold!"

You are Responsible, Respectful and A Learner!  

We love having you in Room One! 

Koia kei a koe - Well done, you!  

Rahnui is 6 Today! Happy Birthday Rahnui!

Today Rahnui turned 6.  She is an extra special member of Room One and has spent some extra time with Room One settling into school.  Unfortunately, Rahnui has been been unwell over the last week which has meant she has had to spend her birthday in hospital.  Miss Collins went and visited her today in hospital and wished her a 'Happy 6th Birthday'.  

Rahnui has lots of tubes to her her breathe and to monitor her heart which looks a little scary but they are just helping her while her chest is weak.  Miss Collins played some Maori waiata that Rahnui likes to listen to and she smiled.  She also like hearing Miss Collins' voice as Rahnui's hearing is very good.    Rahnui's Mum said it is the first smile she has had for a week.  We think it is a sign that she is starting to feel better!  

Rahnui is beginning to feel better and we look forward to her return to school so we can pass on our birthday wishes.  Her Mum and Nannie are doing a wonderful job of looking after her with the doctors and nurses.    

Here is a Happy Birthday song from all of us.  

Trying New Things

Miss Collins, one of our teachers loves shopping.  She saw these cool styluses at Paper Plus on sale and thought they would be great from Room One, so she bought one for each iPad to try out.  They are a pencil on one end and a stylus on the other end.  

The iPads are popular in Room One and we are beginning to learn how there are apps for different things like learning apps and fun apps.  Sometimes though learning apps are fun too.  

Miss Collins thought they would help us form our letters and they are the same shape as a pencil which will help with our handwriting grip.  

We used them today with the iPad and thought they were great especially when we needed to form letters and move things into tricky places.  They were cool to use.  We have two pink one and two blue ones.  

Here are some photos of us trying out our cool new toys!  

Micheal and Lucas had finished all of their work and were trying out the pencils on the Lego game.  Miss Collins hung out with them for a little while and loved hearing the boys share their knowledge and collaborate together.  

Nikora chose to explore a new app he had seen Miss Collins use called Duck Duck Moose.  

He found it could do lots of different things and is keen to use it again.  

Tre'destiny explored a Maths app on the iPad.  She enjoyed having time by herself to try and figure out how it worked on her own.  Maybe she will become the expert on this app?

Here is a picture of one of our new styluses.  

School Cross Country

Today we had our school Cross Country.  Room One ran first with Room Two.  We managed to run all the way round without stopping.  

It was exciting taking part in Cross Country for the first time.  

We had been training since last term and when we started running we couldn't run around the field non-stop.  Our fitness has improved!  

We enjoyed cheering our whanau, buddies and friends on as they raced.  

A big thanks to the parents who came and watched us!  

Room One Results

1st Boy - Lucas 

2nd Boy - Cody

1st Girl - Lupe

2nd Girl - Sasha

This photo shows the different things we did today.  We lined up ready to be called for our race.  Then we sat on the start/finish line.  After that we got ready and Mr Marsh blew his whistle to set us off.  We ran around the field without stopping all the way to the finish line.  The last photos are of the first and second place getters in Room One.  

Our Letter Of The Week Is Gg

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

This week we are learning about the letter Gg.  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.  Gg is tricky as it has two sounds.  

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

Here is a song to get you started!

Watch this space to see what we learn this week!  

Science Experiments Using Forces

On Tuesday we did our first Science experiment with Room Two.  First Miss Collins told us that we were going to move paint on a page but we weren't sure how.  We thought we could move it around using a our fingers or a spoon.  Then Miss Collins told us we were going to be given a straw.  Next we formed a question, which was "How can we use a straw to move paint around a piece of paper?"  

After that we formed a hypothesis which is when you predict what you think will happen. 

We thought...

- The paint might go all over us.

- The paint might splash off the page

- Paint could end up in our mouth.

After that Miss Collins and Miss Philp explained what we were going to do and recorded it on our experiment chart.  We wrote it down because that is what 'real' scientists do.  

We carried out the experiment and we found out that we could move the paint around the page by blowing down the straw.  The paint was quite thick and hard to move around.  Room One then tried the experiment again with dye which was thinner and it moved around the page more easily.  The dye spread like fireworks.   

The air forced the paint and dye to move around the page.

Our Sponge Capsule Stories

Last Monday as part of Language Experience we put sponge capsules into warm water and observed the capsule dissolve and turn into a sponge.  First we made a prediction about what might be inside the capsule and then we put it in the water and corrected our predictions.  Some of us were correct but it turns out the packet wasn't correct for most of the shapes and we got a mixture. 

We were learning about the letters Cc and Kk and that is why we did capsule experiments.  

Here is a photo of the capsules.  Miss Collins got them from the $2 Shop at Riccarton.  

During the week we wrote about our Language Experience.  

We are learning to write the sounds that we can hear.  Here are our stories... 

It was a monkey.  By Dupree

It was a person.  By Ferishta

It was a dolphin.  By Izzan

It was a goat.  By Micheal

My capsule turned into a goat.  By Zivan

My capsule turned into a person.  By Mitchell

I put a capsule in water.  By Mualijcia

My capsule turned into a cow.  By Lupe

My capsule turned into a monkey. By Aurora

My capsule went in hot water.  By Jaedyn

Steam came out of my pot.  By Justine

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.