Christmas Star

Thank you to all our blog visitors during 2011. Mrs Eden will still be teaching in Room 14 in 2012, but there will be a new group of children with her. Merry Christmas to all.

http://cdn.i-dressup.com/cdn/119988/happy_santa.swf     

(Click on the link to play.)

Try this Santa Game.

Santa Puzzle To Try

This is a game the children in my 2010 class enjoyed last Christmas. Keep trying. You get faster each time you play. Click on the image to start.

Christmas Games

http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/elf-tic-tac-toe
Try our new Christmas game.

and this one.
http://topics.tes.co.uk/popup?game=1

Guess My Number

Try this guessing game. It is fun and good for your maths.

Reading Telephones

We like using the reading telephones when we read our browsing books. You can speak really softly and hear your own voice.

Practising Basic Facts

Today we worked in pairs to do lots of learning activities on the ipad. We resorded ourselves reading our brosing books with Quick Voice,made up stories with Story Wheel and practised our basic addition facts with Under Sea Maths. In the photos you will see Daniel and Jake trying to better their time each game to answer their basic facts. We enjoyed our learning activities.

Some New Online Learning Activities

Have fun trying these new learning activities. Thank you Allanah for the first one. Mrs Eden was introduced to the other two sites by the teacher in Room 1 at Brightwater School. Thank you everyone for sharing.  
Click on the images to enter the sites.

Bees At The Kindy

This morning the Kindy let us know they had a swarm of bees settled in a tree. So we went across the field to see them. It was fun visiting and seeing our Kindy teachers again. They have invited us to go back for another visit. We look forward to that.

RWC

Tooth Fairy Game

Hi Room 14. Chantal left me a message to say she had lots of loose teeth. It reminded me about this tooth fairy game where you match opposites. Hope you are having a great holiday. See you Tuesday.
(Click  on the picture to p;lay)

Room 14

Counting in 2's game.

Here is an easy and fun game to practise your counting in 2's, 5's and 10's. You can try counting on in other numbers as well.

Happy Holidays

The Flying Pony Girls

Today we were very lucky to have the authors of "The Flying Pony Girls save Christmas" visit our school to read us their book. They asked Mr Irvine to read the part of Father Christmas. We all liked their flying ponies.

What Have We Been Learning?

Another Fun Lesson

Another Fun Lesson

Using Life Jackets

Today and yesterday when we had free time at swimming lessons, we were allowed to try using life jackets. It was so much fun.

Swimming Stories

Swimming Lessons

It was the first day of our swimming lessons today.
We all enjoyed ourselves.
Swimming Lessons

Draw A Stick Man

I was reading Moturoa's blog today and found this fun activity for you to try. Thanks Allanah.  Click on the  picture and follow the instructions.

Kieran O'Connor

Kieran O'Connor came to sing to our school yesterday. To hear two of the songs he entertained us with, visit Room 12's blog. Mrs Smith organised this great experience for us.

http://room12richmondprimary.blogspot.com

The Teddy Bear's Picnic

Today the Junior School classes were very lucky to have a Teddy Bear's Picnic organised by Mrs Miles (our Deputy Principal) and the school student council.We all ate our lunch out on the back field and then we had lots of fun doing many fun activities. Thank you Mrs Miles and all the wonderful council members.

Teddy Bear's Picnic.



For more photos of everyone having fun visit Room 17's blog. and Room 16's blog.

Science Fair Award

When all the entries in our school science fair were judged we were presented with this certificate. Our entry was then taken to the Regional Science Fair and we were placed 3rd in the Year 1 section.

Chicken Licken

Today the Kangaroos reading group, with a little bit of help from Lilyrose and Daniel, presented a play called Chicken Licken. They made some lovely masks to wear. We enjoyed the play and Mrs Eden was proud of their reading.

RWC in Nelson

Luke went to see a Rugby World Cup game played in Nelson. Italy played Russia. Italy won. Luke got this wig to support the Italians.

Visiting The Church

Right next to our school is a church everyone in Richmond knows as "The Church On The Hill". Susan is the Vicar at the church and Room 14 is very lucky to have her coming into our room to help and read to children each week. She also comes to talk to children in the playground sometimes at lunch time. Today we were especially lucky to go over to the church and have a look around. Susan showed us the alter and many other things. She let five children ring the bell. Thank you Susan. We really enjoyed ourselves.

Science Exploration

Today we did another science activity. Mrs Eden showed us how molecules move around to get away from each other.By doing this activity we were able to see how detergent works to move food off our plates when we are washing the dishes. We put food colouring into milk and then we put some detergent into the milk mixture. It was fun seeing the patterns as the molecules moved around.

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Ronald McDonald Visits.

Ronald Mc Donald made a visit to our school this morning to talk to us about road safety.

Calendar Art

Here are just 4 of our calendar art pictures. Our parents will be proud to order these to make into cards, calendars and diaries.We have all worked hard on our individual work and they are very colourful.

Room 14 Visits The Snow

Today a few of us in our class had a snowy experience. There is a preschool right by the church which is next to our school.A kind person put a big truck load of icy snow on the hill for the children to slide in. Mrs Eden took us there to have a few minutes fun as well. We loved it so much!!!