Goodbye 2017!

One last post for those of you that follow our blog!
At the end of term we had our final assembly where we acknowledge those students who have demonstrated and lived the Stanley Avenue Learner Dimensions , and those who have achieved academic success.
The recipients this year from Room 5 : Sharon, Xavier and Seb. Each one of these students turns up to school organised and ready to learn, gives it their all and supports their classroom members. I have been very proud of things they have achieved and wish them all the best for next year.

Some Room 5 students will be moving on to Room 6 next year, these students have been notified, had a visit with Mrs Trebes and also have the 2018 stationery list sent home. If you have misplaced the stationery list, it can be found on our website.

Enjoy the holidays with your whanāu, stay safe  and we will see you in the new year!

Pools trip & last minute notices

Just wanted to say a big thank you to all of the parents who came and helped with our end of year picnic - the kids had a blast! Sorry I haven't got any pictures to put up - I left my device at school!

Please remember to check the 2018 class lists that are posted on Mr Byers office window. Stationary lists have been sent out already.

Book bags , left over books etc will be passed on to the next class teacher, hats will be sent home so they can be washed - but will be needed first day back in 2018.

Thursday is our end of year certificate assembly. This starts at 9.30am in the Rec Centre and goes until 11. After this will be morning tea as usual and then furniture will be moved from the classrooms that are changing locations.

It is a very busy time of year, if you have any questions please come and see me.

Thanks!

Hands on learning.

In Room 5 I try to mix up our learning activities to keep students engaged and enthusiastic about school and learning. This week , as you would have seen from the newsletter , we dressed up, blew bubbles, created in the sandpit and drew on the concrete.
Trying to blow bubbles with items from the classroom was a big hit, and it made for some great story writing.
Here is a short clip of everyone in action - including a couple of big kids we had for the day  from Room 9.

How we learn our ABC.

Today during reading time students in Room 5 work on 'tumble' activities. These are individual activities that students can work on ,mostly, by themselves.
Today it was such a nice day outside, we decided to try having an activity out of the room. We got out the chalk and were practising how to write our letters and names out on the concrete.

Junior Big Day In 2017

A quick clip of some of the photos from my station during our Junior Sports Day , once the teachers have caught up we will be sharing a lot more photos on our school website and Facebook page so stay tuned!

Busy Busy Term 4!

How fast are the weeks flying by?! We have had new faces join us, lessons in how to be firewise and our Junior Big Day in!

Stay tuned for photos from our Junior Big Day In! We hope you all had a lot of fun, the day was a great success.

Brandon & Sharons' snail

This week while I was on duty I came across Brandon and Sharon. They had found a little snail in the garden. It was great to see them exploring how he moved, and what would happen when the snail came across a gap in the table. There were great conversations being had between all of the children who came over to discuss the snail, like how does he move, where is his home and what does he eat. A great example of how not all learning happens in the classroom!

More smiley faces for Room 5!

This week we welcomed Phoenix, Austin and Amul to Room 5. Amul is the first from his family to attend Stanley Avenue and so is Phoenix. Austin is lucky enough to have a big sister with him at school. Say a big Hi to our newest students if you see them around!

Hello Term 4!

Check out Nate's plants!! He found a pansy in his Little Garden and is lucky enough to have some other plants too! I hope you all had great fun with this little project over the holidays, keep the photos coming - it is great to see the progress!

Today has been a great start to the new term. We had 3 lovely ladies join Room 5 today! Welcome to Sharon, Alaska and Willow - it is great to have you in our class and we hope you had a great first day.

Don't forget that this term school issue sun hats are compulsory. Students not wearing hats will be restricted to certain shaded areas within the school. Hats can be purchased from the office or uniform room.

Sebs' Little Garden

Hope you are all enjoying your holidays - at least we have seen a little bit of sunshine so far!
Fingers crossed by now , your Little Gardens have sprouted! I know ours at home have started too, which is very exciting! Don't forget to send in some pics to me so we can see how each others gardens are going! Here is a cool collage that Sebs mum sent in of his awesome garden progress!
Can't wait to hear how it is after the holidays.!

Reminders for Term 4

Hi all, last day of term today so just a few notices before we go into holiday mode.

• First day back is the 16th of October - Please note , there is an early finish at 1pm for Professional Development.
• Photo orders close on the 18th October.
• School hats are compulsory in Term 4 - these can be purchased from the school office.

I have also sent home a letter today about our Little Garden project. Each student will receive a Little Garden pot to plant and grow over the holidays. It would be nice if they could look after it themselves to learn about what a plant needs as we will be looking at this in term 4. If you like you can also email in pictures of your plants growing over the holidays - or get children to draw a picture of the seedling once it sprouts. My email is Hayley.Williams@Stanleyave.school.nz.

Enjoy the holidays , have fun and stay safe.

Miss Williams

Welcome Braxton!

Today we had Braxton join us in Room 5. Braxton is already a familiar face around Stanley Avenue as he has a big sister here who has also been through Room 5.

Here is a picture of Braxton with his first lot of story writing!

If you see Braxton around, feel free to say hi and welcome him to our awesome school.

Junior Showcase!

Well done to all of our students who were a part of our Junior Showcase yesterday! You all did really well and I am super proud of your efforts!

Big thanks to the parents who made it to , we will try and get a video on our school You Tube channel for those of you that missed it.

Calendar art orders!!

Today calendar art and order forms were sent home. If you would like to place an order please return the art, order form and money to the classroom teacher or at hand in to the lovely Mrs Hayes in the office.

Junior Presentation

On the 20th of September , we have our Junior Presentation.Room 5 will be performing a dance that they have been learning over the last few weeks.
Our costume will be simple and all that is required from home is a PLAIN black shirt or singlet, with black shorts or pants. Please if you are bringing these in, can they be in this week in a NAMED plastic bag so that it is all at school ready for next week.
Show times will be advertised shortly.
Many thanks

Well done Seb & Charlotte!

Here are our fabulous word workers from last week - sorry I'm a little late! Seb has been working extra hard on his list and was very happy to be able to chose a prize and move onto his next list! Keep up the great work guys!!

Great progress Room 5!

These hardworking students have all moved on to a new word list! This list is the one at the back of notebooks. It corresponds with the books students are reading. Students are asked to learn these each week , just for sight recognition, not spelling. Advancing with these lists helps further their reading progress.

Ka Pai guys! Great work!

Super independent writers!!

A big congratulations Maddie and Charlotte who created some amazing writing, all by themselves!! They have started sounding out words and writing the letter sounds they can hear. This means, for Maddie, she was trying to write the word 'jump'. When she says the word, she knows what letter sounds are at the start and end of the word, so she wrote a 'j' and a 'p'. This shows me that both Maddie and Charlotte are making connections between sounds they can hear, and being able to record the correct letter.

Keep up the great work girls!!

Busy bees in Room 5.

Each day when I am working with groups for Reading , Writing, Maths or Handwriting, the Room 5 students are working on what we call a tumble. A tumble is a group of themed activities that relate to the curriculum area they are working on. For example if we are working on Reading, there will be letter and word activities. These can be anything from Bingo, to writing on the whiteboard table or Study ladder.
This week I worked alongside groups to see what they liked about each activity that I had set up, showed them some new things and also had them show me some new things - they are all so creative!! I had great fun lying under the table on the ipads with one group, creating things with the Mobilo and watching them problem solve with puzzles.

Here is a little clip put together of the photos I took.

Super word list workers!

This fabulous group of students all received new word lists this week! Each students was allowed to choose a prize and received a little chocolate. 

All of the Room 5 students have been trying really hard this week on lists, so even though they didn't receive a prize , they should still be very proud of their efforts.

Keep up the great work Room 5!

Room 5's Winter writing!!

Last week Room 5 focussed on writing about Winter. We talked about what we could see, hear, touch, smell and taste when it was winter. The students came up with some great ideas , which we recorded on the board.
Each writing group then chose which sentences they liked, or created a new one , and filled out their Winter writing sheet.
After this we worked on some artwork to accompany our poems. These are now all up at the back of Room 5, so if you missed seeing your child's poem that went home in Week 1, pop in and check out the display !
Great work Room 5!

This week we also welcomed Dylan, Kauri, Riley and Nevada into our class, we are going to try and update our blog photo next week to show you all of the lovely smiley faces.

Awesome work girls!

This week we looked at our sight words to see who could remember some of the words from our home learning books. The lists in the back of our home learning books correspond to the books that we read during the week.
A big congratulations to Hannah and Charlotte who received new word lists this week , for their efforts they received a prize from the prize box!

What can Room 5 do?

This week our first writing lesson was focussed on a poem called "I Can". As a class we discussed things that we can do - ride a bike, skip, hop and much more. The children were then asked to draw 2 pictures of things they can do. Our next step was to write a sentence to go with our drawing starting with "I can.......". We are all different and at varying stages of learning about writing so some of the children write over the top of my writing, some copy underneath and others are learning to use their word and letter cards to create their own sentence. It was great to see all students trying really hard and focusing on giving it their best.
The pictures and writing are on display in Room 5 so feel free to pop in and see our work! Here is just a sample of some of the writing.

Welcome back!

Welcome back! We have had a fun week already and added some new faces to our class.
This week we welcomed Kasey, Jayden and Cheyenne to Room 5.
Kaseys' favourite thing at school has been playing in the sandpit.
Jayden enjoys playing on and jumping off the big blue spider web.
Cheyenne had fun playing in the sandpit with her big brother Jackson.
If you see any of these lovely smiley faces , feel free to say hi and welcome them to Stanley Ave School.
Here is a photo of our new students, as well as Nicolaus who joined Room 6 this week.

Room 5 visits Room 3's Science Fair!!

Today we visited Room 3's amazing Science Fair. We were able to check out some great creations.

Maddie said "thank you for letting us look at your stuff you made."

Hendrix said "I liked the spikey one."

Hannah said " I like the dragon with the sparkle scales."

Here are some photos of Room 5s visit.

Room 5s busy week

This week was another busy week for Room 5! Yesterday we had Tuakana Teina with Room 8 and Room 3. We had fun decorating stars celebrating Matariki.
We were also lucky enough this week to be given a brand new puzzle from Kelly , our lovely teacher aide. Below is a photo of the first group who was able to complete it!

Balloons visit Room 5!

On Sunday Stanley Avenue was lucky enough to have the Waikato Hot Air Balloon visit. They started very early, at 7, because that is the best time for balloons to set up - when there isn't much wind.
It was great to see students coming to see the big balloons - some of us were even lucky enough to have a ride!!!
A big thanks to the Waikato Hot Air Balloon Club for coming to our school and giving us the opportunity to see the awesome balloons.

Did you know about our school app?

Stanley Avenue is lucky enough to have their very own school app! Even better is that it is free to download! You can choose to get app notifications for your child's class or school wide - or both! You can also use the app to send in absentee information, get contact information and check notices.

Room 5's super heros!

We had another busy week this week and it was mostly centred around our writing . This week we made super hero capes and masks and then wrote about what our super power would be if we had one.
We also performed at assembly in our cool super hero gear. Here is a photo of us all dressed up and a few of our stories we wrote.

"My super power is lava. I am going to put it on the trees." By Ruby

"My super power is electric. I am going to electric other people." By Olivia

"My super power is to make ice. Then I can build a castle." By Navaya

"My super power is camouflage so I can sneak up on bad guys". By Luscous

" My super power is fire. I am going to light it." By Tamahou

Dress up writing

This week we had a fun writing session where we dressed up! After we had a play and talked about our character, we then wrote about who we were dressed up as. Here are the Room 5 students in their dressups and proudly showing off their writing.