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!