We have had another very busy week - with the children completing some fantastic artwork - all will be revealed this week ;) The theme behind the artwork is "being connected" which relates well to our topic "Ready Set Go".
The artwork connects us all through a river - yet each picture displays the individual child's personality (interests, things they love & things they relate to in their own world).
The children have started doing descriptive writing about our class rabbit Cuddles - some beautiful photos. The children were writing about Cuddles as you can see in these photos.
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| Our birthday wall - and 4 facts about each child. "Who am I?" |
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| The family tree of Room 7 |
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| Our homework incentive - auction dollars. Each week the dollars get added here. The children are learning to add their dollars up. |
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| Our class treaty. |
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| Sam - with the nest & eggs the 'chainsaw man, Mr Vuleta' found |
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| Syndicate singing with Ms Stewart - a lovely hot day so we sat outside under the trees. |
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| Our 1st THREE SHARP winners - For Respect & Pride L-R: Schalk, Bailey & Michelle |
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| Cuddles the bunny had fun at the Parker house - he nibbled carrots & Bailey brought the left overs to show us. |
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| Ruby Leigh's Mum Angie, reading the class a story in Russian - such laughter! |
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| I love this photo - look at the joy ! |
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| Cuddles the subject of our descriptive writing. Ruby holding Cuddles. |
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| Monet holding Cuddles - Cuddles interrupted Monet while she was busy writing. |
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| Awwww Tamira, Cuddles is loving your big cuddle =) |
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| Shkhan giving Cuddles a lovely cuddle. Having a break while writing his descriptive writing about Cuddles. |
This week the children will be working on their individual goals for the first half of the year.
Setting goals can be quite tricky for the children - we talk about what they want to get better at. That's the easy part. They then have to be able to talk about how they are going to achieve their goal.
We will discuss the goals at the 3 way (child, teacher & parent) goal setting meetings that are coming up in week 6.
Last week I introduced a new little 'feel good' reward scheme for the children. We are working on friendships - what is a friend, how we be a good friend and how to maintain being a friend etc...
You will see on the small whiteboard centre a FRIENDSHIP box.
The children are to write down the name of a child who has done something to show 'being a good friend' (& they write what that child did to be a good friend) - at the end of the day we have a draw and the person who's nomination is drawn out get a FRIENDSHIP certificate.
I present the certificate & tell the class what is was that that child did to receive the nomination.
So far we have had some lovely nominations & winners.
I am encouraging the children to help each other out & that even though we are all different we are all ONE group working together in Room 7.
Another little FUN thing I have introduced is; Sam brought in a gorgeous little teddy bear which was to be an auction item. The teddy is so cute & so loved I thought we have to do something else with this lil cutie - SO...each morning lil teddy is hidden somewhere in the classroom & the children come in (& if they remember they have to find him) a bit like "Where's Wally?"
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| Where's Mr Ted? He's joined our Room 7 family. |
Important dates:
This Tuesday - March 4th - OUR FUN swimming meet with Room 6 - SCHOOL POOL - 10.45am onwards. . . picnic 1st lunch - south field. (Winter sports sign up is on at the same time...so our children can sign up - then head out to the picnic).
Our postmonement day is Thursday. . let's have some sunshine.
Our postmonement day is Thursday. . let's have some sunshine.
