Ladies of Variety Disco!

Room 11 was lucky enough to be invited to another 'Ladies of Variety' event. They had work for this one though. Behaviour in the class needed to improve to earn this day of fun and they did it! Crazy hair was a hit with the kids and so were the tattoos and face painting. Some of us hit the dancefloor early and danced up a storm! Some of us preferred to watch the dancers on stage. Some of us had never been to a disco before so it was a great learning experience. All in all it was a fun couple of hours.

Disco! on PhotoPeach

This week also saw Cassey celebrate her 11th birthday.

Happy Birthday Cassey!

Catch Up!

We are 3 weeks in to term 2. I have been extremely busy the last few weeks and haven't been able to update the blog. Now that things have settled down I hope to post more often. This post will include a lot of photos from the end of last term and a few from this term. A lot of things have happened. We have looked closely at worms and started a worm farm, we went to an Easter Party organised by the Ladies of Variety, we have had another class birthday ( Happy 11th Birthday Jayden!) and we cooked stir fry vegetables with vegetables from our garden. We have also been learning some Play is the Way games. These games are non-competitive games that are helping us to work more as a team and to learn play skills. Next week we are organsing assembly. We will be a singing a song with some sign language that we have learnt.
Below is a slideshow of what we have been up to.

Week 8!

On Friday we had an incursion. This is when the excursion comes to you. We had a visit from a Toy Museum. We learnt about games and toys that children played many, many years ago. Some games were also from other countries. We loved it so much we couldn't stop talking about it all day. Below are some photos of the games we played.

Toy Museum on PhotoPeach

Week 7

This week our literacy block changed in structure. We now spend 2 hours, 4 days a week, on literacy learning. We start with morning group where we find out who's at school, look at our calendar, check the weather and develop our oral language skills. We then move into Writing. During this time we are encouraged to write independently and practise the skills we are learning. I also model a different aspect of writing. After writing we look at our Accelerated Literacy text. We are doing a persuasive text this term. Then we have Self-Selected reading. This is when we read independently or with a partner ( I also listen to students read during this time). Lastly it's Word Work. We are using the Jolly Phonics progam to learn about letter sounds. This new structure will take some time to get used to. Working solidly for 2 hours is a difficult task, but we are doing well.

A highlight this week was using the latops during maths to use the Mathletics website. We love practising our maths skills playing the games and quizzes.  Another highlight was cooking on Friday. We made pancakes. We did well with reading the recipe, measuring the quantities, flipping our pancakes, spreading our toppings and washing up afterwards.

Thanks must go to James who was the official photographer during our cooking session.

Week 7 Highlights! on PhotoPeach

Sports Day!

Last Thursday was sports day. We were hoping for perfect weather (not too hot and no rain), but unfortunately it was overcast and a little cool. We started the morning with a warm up organised by the captains of each team. We then started rotating through our events. We competed in 90m hurdles, discus, long jump, high jump, 800m run, shot put and 100m sprints. Each team received points for displaying the school values throughout the day. The focus of the day was on participation. Mrs P. reminded us at assembly that it didn't matter if we didn't win as long as we participated. If we don't participate we won't progress. We all showed great sportsmanship and cheered each other on. Check out the photos in the slideshow of room 11 participating in sports day.

Welcome To Room 11's New Blog!

We are 4 weeks into the new school term and we have been busy! The first 2 weeks was spent making sure we got off to a great start. There were lots of 'getting to know you' activities and discussions about how we could make our class run smoothly. We have chosen our SRC representatives. Congratulations to Tylah and James. They will be our reps for term 1. Our weekly swimming lessons have started. Everyone is enjoying the lessons and looks forward to Monday afternoons.
We will be studying minibeasts (insects, worms etc) in Science and Celebrations in Society and Environment.
Below is a slideshow of photos from the last few weeks. Stay tuned for more updates!!

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