Student+Learning

TERM 1 2012 __Visiting Playcentre __ Baxter enjoyed watching the water flow down the drain.

Our favourite game was Grandma's knickers. We had to put small balloons down the bloomers. It was funny. . Baxter and Breagh-Rose and Andrew rode their tractors to the DoDuckIn.

'What would you like today sir?' asked the DoDuckIn staff -Katie, Bailey, Annie,Harry, Breagh-Rose and Mac.

School girl Emerson enjoyed show us all the equipment she played on when she was a Playcentre kid.

Leaping through the air was so much fun and a favourite of Mac's. Andrew, Harry, Caleb and Bailey are so good at waiting for their turn. We made boats using a walnut shell. We poured water into the moat and raced our boats. Baxter's boat was the winner.

It was fun taking turns on the high rope swing. Some of us brave children climbed to the top of the rope and touched the tree. The barrel swing was so much fun too,'higher, higher'. THANK YOU TO THE PLAYCENTRE AND JUSTINE FOR SHARING YOUR MORNING AND LEARNING EQUIPMENT WITH US. WE LOVED OUR VISIT.

__ HABITS OF MIND __ In Room 2 we have been focusing on developing our accuracy. Beautiful colouring Ellie, Mac and Breagh-Rose. We practice checking our writing and with help have a go correcting any errors.

We are focused on accuracy when we go back and read the story again when it does not make sense. Great following the story with your eyes Nicholas, Bryn and Ellie. We focus on developing accurate one to one matching. Great pointing Selina. We do our best illustrations in our Publishing and Poem Books. Annie illustrates her story about her Christmas presents. Baxter illustrates his story about having dinner at McDonalds Baxter and Bryn do a fabulous job illustrating their poems.

We are learning to spell the essential words and read our sight words accuracy before we practice writing lots of words'fast'. Well done Emerson reading all your words accurately. Well done Annie for spelling your four spelling words accurately. WOW! Katie look at all the words you can write accurately and quickly. Look at the data you have recorded on your graph. Bailey and Andrew listen carefully to words on the little red recording devices. Then try to accurately record all the sounds in the word they can hear. While Bryn, Nicholas Baxter and Selina try to make letters accurately using playdough.

We are learning to pack our school bag accurately at the end of the day. Making sure we have our bookbags, lunchboxes and polar fleece in our bag before leaving school at the end of the day. We are develop our ability to accurately suggest objects that begin with the sounds of the week. When given the criteria ' make something starting with the letter R' we used recycled materials to make envelop robots and carton rockets. __ Harold the Giraffe __ __ and __ __ the Life Education Van __ __ visit our school. __ We learned about which foods are 'Go, Go - eat lots of me foods', 'Slow down - sometimes' foods, and 'Stop - not much of me foods'. We listened to Harold tell us silly jokes and watch a 3D movie about foods that make us feel good.

= The Hungry Caterpillar and the Friendship Tree. The autumn leaves are falling and the caterpillars are growing. Time is slipping away as are the seasons.

We love looking at all the different shapes.

__Visiting the Dental Van.__

Our whole class went to see Sue in the Dental Van and we all got to sit in her special chair. We loved it and can't wait for the van to visit again.



We made St Patrick Day hats and ate green donuts on St Patrick's Day.

__ Swimming __ We enjoyed developing our water confidence and our floating skills.

__House Colour Day __ We worked with our house leaders to make a banner and invent a chant. We then marched in our houses singing our chants. It was fun eating lunch with our house group and playing the games in the afternoon.