Room 5 children stayed focussed on their learning all week, even with the excitement of Swimming Sports and Easter looming in the air - you all deserve a pat on the back!
We have also been hugely focussed on Self Management... What do we need to do to manage ourselves for learning? In our friendships? To stay healthy? and to be independent?
Room 5 children have been working on listening carefully to others and to be able to relay a message to others without forgetting. This is challenging for many of us. We have been doing various activities in the classroom to practice this but our most favorite of all is playing Chinese whispers. We have learned that we need to be focussed, to listen carefully but also, we must speak very clearly to help our peers to understand our message. These are nice easy things to practice at home too! Our challenge is to get at least one message around our Chinese Whispers circle by the end of term :)
Easter Activities:
On Tuesday we were learning about RESPECT. Respect is one of the very important values upheld by Maungaraki School students, staff, parents and community. We know that respect comes in many forms.
We can respect people by...
- Helping
- Caring
- Being nice
- Using manners
- Sharing
- Listening
- Showing understanding
We practiced many ways of showing RESPECT on Tuesday as we decorated some yummy Easter Egg Biscuits.
1) We had to respect the differences of children in our classroom by checking that everyone can eat the biscuits and decorations without getting sick. We understand that we chose special ingredients with the help of some parents that would not cause our Room 5 friends to have allergic reactions.
2) We shared ingredients and tools with our group.
3) We listened to Miss Jackson and Mrs Counsell carefully so we knew what to do.
3) We helped others who needed help.
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| Exciting! Yummy! Easter!!! |
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| We shared. We waited patiently for our turn. |
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| Careful concentration and fine motor skills. |
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| Delicious! |
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| Compliments to the chef! |
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| Mrs Counsell was a beautiful help! |
Afterwards, we wrote some amazing stories about our cookie making using fabulous adjectives to describe them!
Swimming Sports:
What a successful day we all had at Huia Pool! Congratulations to all the children who participated in the fun swimming events today. All of the teachers are very proud of your efforts!
Swimming Sports is a very important day on our school calendar as it is a prime opportunity for children to participate and contribute to the life of the school, develop skills in risk taking, perseverance, listening, responsibility and also to develop, practice and maintain social skills and relationships.
A huge thank you to all the parents who made the time to attend and support our children and teachers today. It was a very tiring afternoon for all of our junior children and your encouragement throughout this event helped tremendously in teaching our children to persevere to the end and succeed.
A fabulous time was had by all!
A very Happy Easter to all families! Stay safe this holiday and I can't wait to see you all back in Room 5 ready to learn on Wednesday April the 3rd at 8:50am!!!
Miss Jackson
