Room 5 supporting the Make a Wish foundation & Star Writers of the Week!

Today we all supported the Make a Wish foundation by dressing up. The theme was I wish I was.......
Room 5 had some awesome costumes! As you can see Room 5 were very creative. We had doctors, zombies,pirates and many more cool dress ups. Well done and thank you Room 5 for supporting the Make a Wish foundation.
This week we also celebrated our Star Writers. It was too hard to choose just one so we had 3! Congratulations to Connor , Karez and Reef for their efforts during story writing time.

Fire Safety

This week we will be looking at fire safety. Tonight students from Room 5 will be taking home a Fire Escape Plan. Students will work with their family to draw a map of their house and work out a plan to get out of their house in case there is a fire. Below there are a few resources to look at and learn about fire safety.

Fire Wise Kids : Has games and videos to look at around fire safety.

http://www.firewisekids.co.nz/

Tamati and Sam get firewise - online book

http://www.getfirewise.org.nz/resources/Tamati_and_Sam_Get_Firewise_Story.pdf

Week 1 learning in Room 5

Welcome to Term 4. Each week we want to show you what we do in Room 5. Below are a couple of pictures from our reading tumble.

While I read with a group, the rest of the class is working as a group on an assigned activity.  

In the first photos the group are completing the ABC train. They then had to match an alphabet card with a picture that started with that letter - for example matching A with the picture of an apple. Ariana had an idea and suggested that they line the cards up with the train.

The third photo shows a group during our maths lesson. We are learning to count on from any number. Each student was given a caterpillar that had a number (under 10) at the start. Once they had their caterpillar they had to complete the number line by finding the numbers that came next.

Room 5 are ready to be sun safe in Term 4.

With these lovely sunny days we have been having I thought it was time to give you all a friendly reminder that in Term 4, our sunhat policy comes in to action. This means that all students must wear a school issue,wide brimmed hat when playing outside. If your child does not have a school hat, these can be purchased from the school office for $11 (cash only ).
If you have any questions about this,please come and see me.
Here are some Room 5 students modelling the school sunhats. We can't wait to have more of these lovely sunny days.

What do you think of our blog?

Room 5 loves our blog, we use it everyday to sing our phonics song and have fun with the moving and grooving songs too.
We think it could be better though. What would you like to see on our blog? Is there something you would like to see more of or know more about?
Parents, feel free to sit down and talk to your children and see what they think too.

Here is Room 5 with their thinking caps on.

Welcome to Room 5 Trilese.

And the smiles keep on coming! Room 5 would like to introduce you to their newest class member - Trilese. Trilese comes to us from Country Kids, and turned the big 5 last week. Trilese is a familiar face to some of us at Stanley Ave, as she has 3 older brothers at school.
Trilese has had a great first day in Room 5. She liked playing on the ipads and played with Ariana and Charlotte during break time.
If you see any of our new students around make sure you give them a friendly Stanley Ave welcome.

Welcome Karez.

How lucky is Room 5? We have had another smiley face join us! Karez had a great first week in Room 5 and has quickly settled in to our classroom. Karez came to us from ABC in Te Aroha ,and instantly recognised a few friendly faces.
Karez loves to play on the back field with his friends Blake and Reef. His favourite thing in class to do is use the ipads.