The end of our second week already!

I have had a great time getting to know all the children in Room 7 and the rest of Kiwi syndicate.  Today we finished our week with a discovery time.  

The children love the opportunity to choose activities and to interact with different children or re-kindle relationships from last year.  

As a teacher it is such a positive time to step back and observe the key competency skills outlined in the first photo below, and model them to help the children develop these very important skills.

Check out all the creative, engaging, imaginative activities in the photos below.

Water play

Turn taking at the easel.

Working together at the trains

Imaginative play

Getting creative with the play dough

Working together

Jack-in-the-box turn taking

Learning to persevere

Balancing

Lots of smiles

Working together and taking turns

Choosing an activity to suit us

Being creative

Playing together

Welcome to 2016!

Welcome to Room 7.

I hope you have had a restful, joyful summer and are ready for a fabulous year of learning.

Our class begins the year with just 8 students, but will slowly grow over the coming term. 

Our first few weeks will be spent getting to know each other and settling back into school routines.

I am looking forward seeing what this year has in store for us all!

My dog Chisel and me in Spicer forest.  He has been my keen and eager running companion all summer!

Let books open doors for you!

Production week!

Our first performance was exclusively for Kereru syndicate.

Check out the photos of us just before we headed to the hall.

Shapes all around us!

Today I set the children a challenge.  

How many shapes can you find in our school environment.  

It was a great chance to get out in the sunshine!

We discovered there are shapes EVERYWHERE!

Circles and semi-circles

Hayden found semi-circles

A triangle frame

Lily found long skinny rectangles

More rectangles

Hayden and Huxley squeezed into a circle

Ovals in the tunnel

Sion climbing across a square

Lots of rectangles here

Diamonds in the fence

Lots of circles

The new vege gardens are rectangles

The center of the flower is a circle

Shapes, shapes, shapes!

We have been doing a lot of learning about shapes. 

 The children had a chance to make their own shape creations,

 naming and counting all of the shapes that they used.  

Check out their creativity!