Week 8

This week the children filled out their swimming pathways.  This has helped them to know what they can do and to focus on what they need to learn to do in swimming.  It is great to see so many children using maths whizz as a fun way to practise and improve their maths.  It would be very helpful if you could support your child by making sure they have their flash cards at school each day. 

Yellow = can do it  and Green = working on it

We are all very excited about beginning swimming this week. If you are picking up your child from the pool please let us know in morning so that we can ensure they take their school bag with their homework books to the pool. 

We are pleased with the work that the children are doing with their maths flash cards, however, it is important that these be brought back each day as they are needed for their class practise. 

We are still finding a lot of property that does not have the child's name written on, it makes it so much easier to return clothing if this is done. 

We are working on persistence and giving everything a go even when it is difficult. We watched a video on this showing a clip from the movie Finding Nimo - just keep swimming! 

A big thank you to all the wonderful parent help we are receiving, it is very much appreciated as this really allows us to concentrate on our teaching.

This week we are  looking for ways to be a good citizen.  We have watched the utube clip 'Colour My World With Kindness' (this is on our blog) and discussed how we can apply this to our classroom and school.  The children are enjoying Maths-Whizz.  Congratulations to Mitchell Lawson who made the most progress on Maths-Whizz last week.  I wonder who it will be this week! We are looking forward to starting swimming on Tuesday.  

Ethan's Science Experiment

First  Ethan put some milk into a bowl.

Next he added some food colouring.

After that he added some dishwashing liquid.  Then BAM! the colours mixed.