Assembly, Cross Country and Swimming!

Room 1 have had a busy week! On Friday, we hosted Assembly and shared our Poppy Art with the school and parental community. Well done to everyone who read! It was clear how much effort you all put in and I was very proud of you. Here is a photo of our fantastic assembly hosts:

On Friday afternoon, Room 1 participated in the Junior Syndicate Cross Country race. It was chilly outside but everyone ran to the best of their ability and I was blown away (literally and figuratively) with the talent we have in Room 1.

Finally, today we had our first day of Swimming down at Huia Pool. Everyone was so well behaved and listened beautifully to their instructors. Well done Room 1 - Your are super swimmers and I'm looking forward to seeing your progress over the next two weeks!

 

Our Special Visitor...

Wow - Term 2 is flying by with only 4 weeks to go! Room 1 had a special visitor a couple of weeks ago which inspired some fantastic writing. Here are a few pictures of our new woolie friend:

 

Miss Marais was so impressed with our writing that we shared it with the rest of the school and parental community at Assembly. Well done to our brave readers!

 

 

Finally, Room 1 have been focusing on the topic of Print Making in Art this term. After learning about ANZAC Day and the significance of poppies, we decided that our first prints should reflect this new knowledge. We each drew a picture of a poppy using pencil and then went over the outline with PVA glue. Once this had dried it was time to roll our dye on and create our prints. Here are our masterpieces:

 

 

 

 

Welcome Back to Term 2!

Room 1 have had a fantastic start to Term 2 with lots of exciting activities taking place already.

At the moment we are learning about temperature and time in mathematics. Here are some photos of us ordering water of different temperatures:

These are our temperature charts!

In this photo, we are finding the hottest and coldest places in the classroom by seeing which group's ice melts the fastest.

Last week we also did lots of preparation for ANZAC Day. We had a special visit from Lt. Col. Kent Collard who gave a meaningful presentation and brought in gear for us to have a closer look at. We even got to try some food samples from the Rat Pack!

We have been lucky to have some good weather over the past two weeks which means that lots of fun is being had during lunchtimes. Here are some photos of the stilt champions in Room 1:

Finally, we had our walkathon yesterday which was a huge success! Thank you so much to all the parent helpers and to Monique (Hannah's Mum) for the lovely photographs. I thoroughly enjoyed the quality time I got to spend with the children in Room 1 and look forward to many more exciting events coming up this Term.