Week 9 - 31st March - 4th April

Hello & welcome to week 9 in Super SHARP seven,

ONE excited teacher - thank you to the 13 children who entered the Learning Support colouring competition. Because of this I went in a draw & won a night at the White Swan - deluxe package!
Pretty thrilling for me - & the children  have suggested I take Batman =)
Thanks to Koby's wonderful Movie World photos & the fantastic Batman pics! (hehe we had a bit of a laugh about Batman & that Batman could go for dinner with Miss Burt to the White Swan).

Koby showing us his Batman cape. Koby kept a great journal while he was away. I read it to the class on Friday, we enjoyed the photos. Lots of oohs & aahs at the adventures of the Dennes family. Miss Burt was a little envious of the photo shoot of Koby & Ceejay lying by the pool! How nice! Great to have you back Koby.
I must say R7 were so gorgeous on the afternoon Koby surprised us with his return...the children were very excited that he was back. One wee boy even made a sign welcoming Koby back.

DATE  FOR  THE  DIARY!
Greytown School Cross Country to be held (earlier than usual)....Tuesday 6th May at Barton's farm - more information will be given nearer the time. Bear in mind this date is the 1st week back for term 2. We will be doing training at school - but any you do at home would be brilliant! 

Library day is Thursday - we're having a high success rate of children remembering library day - sitting at around 96%. 

Headlice
It appears headlice are enjoying themselves in R7. I have sent a notice out previously & have also talked to the children. I'm quiet vigilant about when the children sit closely together on the mat, we've talked about making sure our heads don't touch. We had a good discussion about headlice & the children were quite knowledgeable. Brought up a good discussion on the lifecycle.
Could you please check your child's hair. This is a good remedy: (hopefully!!).

• Use a lice comb to manually remove lice and their eggs. Coating the hair in conditioner & then running a lice comb through. Use a tissue to wipe the comb on - you will then see any eggs/lice. 

Thank you for this - and I know they're a pain (having a daughter with lovely long hair). 

Zumba - each Friday we have a Zumba session in the hall. We attended Zumba 2 weeks ago & R7 appeared to really enjoy this (99%). I videoed the children & I watched it again yesterday - great fun! If you ever want to see this just ask me & I'll show you on the ipad. 

MOVING MARCH - did you ask your child what they knew about Moving March?

We had some great discussion about this - as you can see from the photos - some fab art work too. 

Moving March posters by R7 - they got hung outside to make a long mural for Enviroschools. The posters represented what the children saw, heard, smelt or felt when they walked, scootered, biked, ran, skateboarded or caught the bus to school. 

Moving March Maths - tally chart to go with discussion about how children in R7 got to school on a) Monday & then b) Thursday - great to see a difference on Thursday. 

Pair work - Moving March.

What a stunning busy working class. 

Tahirih & Grace's Moving March poster - gorgeous - look at all the things the girls saw & heard on their way to school.
Look at the hair - this is what they felt - the wind in their hair! Fabulous!!

 Narrative writing - we have started preparing for narrative writing. You may have heard your child talking about fun writing. (This was previously called personal writing). Well - this has taken off with a hiss & a roar. The idea behind this fun writing book - is just that to make writing FUN! This book will be used during our writing rotation BUT I have told the children it can be written in at other times eg: b4 school - during wet breaks etc... At the front of the book there is space for the children to write down any ideas (we did a big brainstorm of ALL THE TYPES of writing we could do) big list hanging from the ceiling in the classroom....EG: Revolting recipes, a letter to someone we love, a crazy poem, a comic strip, roll the dice to get the character/setting/theme, choose a letter & write down numerous things to go with that letter.
I also have set up a writing corner with lots & lots of things for the children to use to get them writing - from story starters to pictures to comic strips....
We did an awesome activity the other day (what I call a 'hotspot' - to get the children writing like a warm up). I explained they would have a time limit to complete a story starter...4mins - complete the starter..eg: I was walking in the deep dark woods, I came across a big haunted house, I opened the door and... "go - 4 minutes writing" - then we did 3 minutes (with a different story starter) then 2 minutes, 1 minute THEN 30 SECONDS!!! Wow we got some awesome writing - and laughs! Each time I modelled an idea (bit of drama involved to spice things up).

They then shared these a) as 1-1 with the class and b) in pairs.
Now this book is free writing and won't be picked up so much for spelling. They are encouraged to use their red dictionary - and self check. Their more formal writing book will be where the spelling is picked up/proof reading is done.

SUPER SHARP 7  - Cameron & Archie S - SHARP winners for the last couple of weeks.

Thank you birthday girl Monet - for the BEST EVER chocolate cake Miss Burt has ever tasted. R7 really enjoyed this gluten/dairy free cake =)

Things like this MAKE MY DAY! Just precious. I was given a grass sword & some nun chucks...(I had to google nun chucks) hehe! 

Sweet sweet sweet - our lil baby blue Marco - graced R7 with his presence last week. Proud big sister Giselle & Mummy Nicole. Oscar got some wonderful photos on the Ipad - lovely to see the R7 faces looking at Marco.

This is how you do the big sister thing =) Giselle & Marco.

1 to end this blog post off - Who is hiding behind the masks??? And it's not Ted or Cuddles =)

Have a great week!!! and remember to 'pass the kindness'.......

Oh and p.s. R7 are hosting syndicate assembly on Tuesday - we will show the other classes our wonderful Cuddles slideshow & the idea behind Cuddles. We have our fantastic river connecting/individual art work to share. We will be singing the Happy song - link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt4qZgghw20