A great way to build your child's understanding of place value

Children need to be exposed to this concept quite a few times. Today we added up our house points and we looked at the difference betwen the green and blue house totals. We are building our understanding of H=hundreds, T=tens and O=ones.

Room 7 Reviews, Friendship is Like a Seesaw

Today at our weekly library visit Mrs. Robertson shared a new book called "Friendship is like a Seasaw" Read what Room 7 thought about the book...

It is a good book about friendships and friends agree on the rules, they do nice things for each other. Sometimes one friend can be up and one friend can be down. When the seesaw is out of balance there is a problem. We can fix it by taking a break from a friend for awhile or working it out and doing nice things for each other.

Mystery Bottle update

Tomorrow the Room 7 class newsletter will come home in child's communication book but for now here is the update regarding the mystery bottle stall....

Mystery bottle/bottle storage and sharing the love, we need the families of Room 7  to take container lots of 20 – 50 bottles to wrap and store?

Over the next few days we will work on making funky, colorful wrapping paper from donations of paper for families to use for wrapping the bottles up, making them attractive and fun.

Please bring a large container with your family name on it to school on Wednesday and I will put a sticky note on it to indicate how many bottles you can store and then at school pick up time your container and some wrapping paper made by Room 7 will be ready for you to collect.

Thank you

Mufti Day - Wednesday 22 October

Families are asked to bring along a bottled item for the Mystery Bottle Stall that will be set up by Room 7 at the St Albans School MONSTER fair.

A good, short article to read over the weekend

http://www.essentialmums.co.nz/little-kids/preschool/development/10598368/Five-secrets-I-learnt-from-early-childhood-educators

I can easily relate to the first point of this article. When I was a Kindergarten Teacher in South Auckland with lots of behaviour problems a sociologist had us remove a lot of equipment and each week reintroduce something and teach its purpose. It was an amazing experience with great results.

Welcome to term 4

This term we will leave our lunch boxes in our bags and put our reading folders in the box by the classroom door that matches our house colour. This new routine means the children in Room 7 are free to work at any work space in the classroom as the little compartment in the desks will be neutral and free of any reading folders. Our reading folders are still very important and allow children to safely put away any notices and continue to use the folders to protect their reading books.

We are underway with planning for the monster fair. Here are some examples of some of the things you need to be putting together for the hoopla stand. We are aiming for 90 fantastic jars filled with little treasures.
Mystery Bottle Class Organiser Needed
We need someone from Room 7 to step forward and organise the stall. This includes the wrapping of the bottles that will come to school in week 2. There is a mufti day planned where children will bring a bottle instead of a gold coin. Parents will need to go and collect the bottles from classrooms and maybe work at someones home wrapping them or work in the art area of Room 7 and be able to store over 500 bottles off site until the day of the fair. Used wrapping paper and newspaper is urgently needed in Room 7. Our wonderful person managing the stall will need to create a roster of parents to help on the hoopla and mystery bottle stall.

We now have a small work space set up in the foyer/cloakroom. This will be a great space for children to work from as our days become warmer. We also plan to  use our outdoor area more as the weather improves.

Our Inquiry this term is titled; Learning Beyond the Classroom and we will be involved in athletics practise and we will have the opportunity to demostrate our skills at our athletics day. We are planning to visit the Transitional Cathedral and participate in a Beach Education day at North New Brighton Beach this term.

A calendar involving school events is now available for you to view on the Room 7 notice board.

Looking forward to a busy, fun and exciting time ahead in Room 7 this term.

Best wishes,
Mrs. Robertson