Happy Holidays from Room 1

Being creative!!

This afternoon we made cards to celebrate the upcoming holidays with our family. 

We worked hard to be creative and careful with our writing and drawings.  We want to do our best work because our families mean a lot to all our children.

We made cards to share with our friends.  We even made cards for our teacher.  She was so happy.

 We were all very proud of our cards.

Swimming at New Windsor

Fun in the pool!

This week it was our turn for swimming lessons.  We are learning to be safe and responsible in the water.
We are learning lots of new skills such as kicking, blowing bubbles in the water,  and floating like a starfish.
I can see that the children are growing in confidence every day!

The children have been divided into three groups.  The instructors are very patient and work with the children in a kind and inspirational manner.

Education Outside The Classroom Week

A very busy week!!

Rooms one and two worked together on EOTC week.  We had lots of fun learning all sorts of new ideas and different ways of doing things.  We also enjoyed collaborating with our peers and making new friends along the way.  

We began our week learning about our native trees that were on the school grounds.  We focused on Pohutukawa, Kauri, Rimu, Kowhai, Te Kouka and our beautiful Silver Fern.  We sketched them, used our gentle hands to touch them.  We were able to see the native trees again in different surroundings on our bush walk at Cornwallis Beach.

Lots of questions and thinking went on this week.  Being outside gives us a different perspective of our world.

Working with our friends from Room 11

Working with our Buddies

We are lucky to have Room 11 as our buddy class!  They are role models for us.

They help us in our learning and we look up to them!

Today they came to share and inspire us to do our best work in our writing lesson.

We are trying really hard to learn how to write our letters correctly.

Together we are amazing!!

Reading

We love stories and reading!!

At New Windsor School our vision is to grow confident learners together:

One of our favourite books to read in Room 1 is Smiley Shark by Ruth Galloway.
Today the children had a turn at re telling the story to their friends.
They each picked a page to read from the story.

As you can see from our photos the children were very enthusiastic when it came to sharing their favourite page from the book.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Our Lion Dance for the New Year.

As part of our study into Chinese New Year we watched last years Lantern Festival on You Tube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83snAsRs32g

We made our own Lion to participate in a dance.

We had fun taking turns being the lion.

We also had fun playing in the band.

Happy New Year!!

Making healthy smoothies

Working together!

Collaboration: Room 1

As part of our discussion on healthy food last week we got into discussions around healthy drinks.  So we decided to make one for us to have at school.  Today was the day!  Prisha and Oliver helped me to write the number of ingredients that we had to make our smoothies.  We also made a list and counted how many children we had in order to make sure that we had enough cups and smoothies for everyone.

The children helped me to choose the number on the blender that would best mix up our smoothie.  We kept checking to see the mixture was mixed together enough. We did not want any lumps.

The best part of making our smoothies was trying the finished product!