Basic sight word wordles

Here are some of the basic sight words we have been reading and writing this term. We have put them on a wordle. See how many you can read at home.
Maybe you can get a big person at home to write them onto cardboard so you can keep practising them at home.

Parents: You can use them for flashcards or you can play word games with your child to help your child recognise and remember these words. If you make 2 sets of the words on cardboard you could play games like memory, matching pairs, snap, fish to help make the learning fun.
Have fun!

St John's lesson

This week we went to listen to the Saint John's lady talk about what to do in an emergency.
Our teacher has been learning how to make talking photos and we have used a programme called fotobabble to share our learning with you. If you click on the arrow below the photo you will hear us share our learning.

Parents: Could you please help your child learn their name, address and phone number in case they ever need it for an emergency. Thank you.

St John's message

Yesterday we went to see the presentation by the St John's lady. We learned what to do if there is an emergency. We practised using the phone to dial 1 1 1 and practised what to say on the phone.
Now we all need to learn our name,address and phone number in case there is an emergency at home and we have to phone for help.
Can you help teach us this at home so we can all do it? Thank you.

This is the St John's character we saw. Our teacher took a photo and we used Blabberize on it to share the safety message with you.

Blabberize Poems

We have just discovered a new cool tool to use on our computer to make talking pictures. It is called Blabberize. Today our teacher use Blabberize for the poems we learned. It was a lot of fun. Here are some of the children's talking photos from our class.

Basic Sight Words - List 1

In Room One we are learning to read letters and words. I have made this slideshow of our first list of basic sight words so the children can learn to recognise them and practise reading them at home. This list of words is also glued into their reading logs for home practice.

Tips for viewing: Click on 'My Word List - One Slide Show' to view. Choose the viewing option you want from the bar below the slide. There are 3 viewing options - scroll / book / slide show. The book option is pretty neat because you can turn the pages like a book by clicking on the basic words. If you click on the little tile symbol on the bottom bar you can see all the words displayed on one screen. Have fun trying different ways of viewing and practising the words at home.

My Word List - One Slide Show

Beach Safety Day

On Friday we went to the beach to learn about beach safety with Rooms 3 & 4 and Miss R. It was a lot of fun.

We learned to swim between the flags.
We learned to put up one hand if we get in trouble in the water and need help.
We learned what things could be used to help keep you afloat and pull you to safety.
We learned how to put on a life jacket and how to make sure it is the right size to be safe.




We had some fun games and relays with the safety gear. Then we had a picnic lunch.
Beach Relays and Games on PhotoPeach
We were supposed to have a swim and try out our water safety skills in the water but it started to get cold and rain so we had to go back to school without our swim.

Red and Black Day

On Friday 4th it was National Red and Black Day. Lots of people dressed up in red and black to show their support for Christchurch. Here are some of our staff who wore red and black for the day. They are the Principal - Ms Joplin, caretaker - Mr Boase and BOT chairperson - Mrs Merchant.

P.E.

On Thursday we went to PE with Rooms 3 and 4. We got to do all sorts of things with the PE gear in the hall. We had to crawl under things, leap over things, run, jump and balance. It was heaps of fun. We love going to PE with Miss R.

Dr Suess

On Wednesday, March 2, we celebrated Dr Suess's birthday. Dr Suess was a famous children's author/illustrator of over 40 imaginative children's books. He lived from March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991. If he was still alive he would be 107 years old now!
We looked at some of his books in our class, watched a video reading of the Cat in The Hat story and visited the Seussville site on the internet. It's a fun site to visit. You can play games and see lots more about Dr.Suess and his books on the site http://www.seussville.com/

On Tuesday March 1st,at 12:51, we joined the nation in sharing a 2 minute silence for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake. We went down on the playing fields before lunch and joined the other classes to make a huge circle. The big children helped show us what to do and we all stood quietly for 2 minutes and thought about the people of Christchurch and the sad thing that had happened.




On Tuesday afternoon some of the senior students came to help us with our learning. They listened to us read and helped us with our maths, handwriting and our drawing. They played games with us on the field before hometime. We liked having their help.