Counting Animals

Here we are adding our farm animals. It is fun pretending to be farmers and doing maths. Pretending helps us learn.

Getting ready for Assembly & Counting Animals

On Monday the year 1 team are hosting the school Assembly. 

Our class has decided that we would like to show the school how we have been learning to count animals. In maths we have been pretending to be farmers and have been adding our toy animals and counting them. 

Last week Elizabeth made a witch hat at home (in response to the "Witch in the Cherry Tree") and shared it at news time. It was fun pretending to be a witch and having a hat helped Elizabeth stay in the character of "Witchlet". 

 This gave us the idea that maybe having a farmers hat would help us pretend to be farmers and help us count animals. 

We explored how we could make hats out of cardboard. The first hat Miss Derhamy made was too floppy and the brim came down into Emma's eyes. 

She decided to try again with thicker cardboard that was less floppy. Miss Derhamy changed the design and it worked. We followed her instructions and worked in groups of three to construct our farmers hats. Tomorrow we are going to design and make costumes for the farm animals. 

Library Time with our Buddy Class

Last week Mrs Parkinson and our buddy class R23 invited us to share their Library time.

We love going to the library with them on Wednesday. We learnt out buddies names and we read books together. Our big buddies were really good at reading the pictures which is our favourite way of reading picture books.

Football Clinic

In week 5 the Football clinic showed us some of the fun games that they play after school. They taught us how to play traffic lights and shark attack. 

Welcome to Room 8 ~ 2016

In Room 8 we love to study words. We study words in our class poems and we study words in our readers. We study words here; we study words there; we study words everywhere!

We are learning to recognise sight words quickly, like they are our best friends, and we are learning how to write them too. Already this year we have studied the words ‘I, am, me, can, look, at, see, my, and here’. Last week Emma had a great idea. She said we could write words with our bodies. So we went outside and wrote the word of the week ‘here’. 

Looking back at 2015 - Room 8

Photos of last year will be published here for the kids to refer to.

King Kong and Paddington Bear Writing