Welcome to the end of week 2!!!
The children in Room 5 have had a very busy start to the year.
Friendships are blossoming and it is lovely to see children maintaining relationships with their friends in  the other junior school classrooms!

Reading is well and truly underway with all children bringing home a book or 2 to read each night. We are working on developing independence in Room 5 (one the Maungaraki School values). The children are trying hard to remember to read their book each night and return it to school the following day WITH their reading log. Parents can also help by making sure that all children have a book bag to use at school - please remember that last years book bag is perfect for using again this year if you don't have a new one.

We have been writing poems this week called 'This is me'. We are all very excited to bring them home tonight and read them to our families!!! We hope you enjoy them. Remember that Poem books need to be returned to school tomorrow.

The Life Education bus has arrived at Maungaraki School! We begin our lessons next week. There are only a few people who still need to return their permission forms and then we are ready to see what Harold's Picnic is all about!

Next week we will also be carrying on with Hectors World (Cyber Safety). Today we learned about our 'Personal Information'. We discovered that we should NEVER type our personal information into the computer when we are on the internet. You never know who could see it.... We know that if we ever feel unsafe or unsure on the internet the golden rule is to...
                                     
                              Tell an adult right away so they can help us to do the right thing!

Our buddy class this year is Room 9. Each of us has our own buddy in Room 9. We listened to the Room 9 children tell us all about the things they like and then we got to choose a buddy who likes the same things as us! Today our buddies did spelling with us, read books, played language games AND took us to the lower ball field to check out the garden and play 'Stuck in the Mud'. It was AWESOME! We were all sooo tired after having such a great time with our new friends!


Here are a few snaps from 'buddy time' today :)

Enjoy the end of your week!
Miss Jackson