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Happy New Year! \u00a0I hope you all had a restful break overt the holidays. \u00a0I swear the children have all grown!\u00a0 I was so happy to see everyone again and the children enjoyed being back at school and seeing their friends.\u00a0 Our daily emotions check-in did see quite a few names pegged to the \u2018sleepy\u2019 emotion stone for the first few days but thankfully as the week progressed, that changed.\u00a0 I think we are all back to our early morning start routines now.<\/p>\n
Here are this week\u2019s highlights from the Yellow table:<\/p>\n
Riley loved football with Miss White and scored 10 times!\u00a0 Whow!<\/p>\n
Diana enjoyed our winter themed art called, \u2018Catching Snowflakes\u2019.\u00a0 I have posted each child\u2019s on their Seesaw if they were present for this activity.<\/p>\n
Laura said the best learning highlight for her this week was a lesson taken by Mrs Brand about keeping safe at home.<\/p>\n
Vivien loved our first gymnastics lesson and was proud to model some of the basic moves to the rest of the class to practise.\u00a0 Thank you Vivien.<\/p>\n
Linda really enjoyed making a class calendar.\u00a0 The children worked in pairs to research a given month\u2019s key dates to add to the calendar.\u00a0 Linda and her partner had the month of February.\u00a0 Linda is looking forward to Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Hasika loved benchball.\u00a0 This is a favourite PE game for P3A.\u00a0 I am always amazed at the super teamwork when I watch the children play and the strategies that ensure their team scores.<\/p>\n
Aadya said the best part of her week was Number Talks.\u00a0 This week the children have continued with a Number Talk we started before Christmas called \u2018Esti Mystries\u2019.\u00a0 They need to estimate how many of x they see in a jar.\u00a0 Using a 100 square, the children work with their partner to eliminate numbers that are not in the jar using different clues.\u00a0 For example, \u2018The number is bigger than 47\u2019 so they need to score out the numbers less than 47 etc until only a few options are left.\u00a0 The aim of the lesson is to see if their estimate was correct.<\/p>\n
Angel LOVED Word Boost Corners.\u00a0 Each day (or most days), the children listen to the same story and listen out of key vocabulary.\u00a0 We then explore that vocabulary.\u00a0 We usually have 5 or 6 words.\u00a0 By the end of the week, the children can orally join in with the story.\u00a0 Such good listeners!\u00a0 On Fridays, the children will play Word Boost Corners.\u00a0 It is a game that promotes the reading of the words also.\u00a0 Plus, it is fun to dance around the room with your friends.<\/p>\n
Olivia enjoyed a game we played this week as a means of revising our common words.\u00a0 If the child could read the common word, they got to roll the paper up and throw it into a basketball hoop Mrs Brown wore on her head.\u00a0 The paper was in the recycling bin already so no trees were harmed in the making of this game!\u00a0 Next time, Mrs Brown has suggested we write the words on small balls to throw as only 1 person shot and scored!\u00a0 It was tricky!<\/p>\n
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My highlight was our discussion on New Year\u2019s Resolutions.\u00a0 We talked about things we could try to do to become better people.\u00a0 Some examples were cleaning rooms, helping parents around the house more, drinking more water and eating more fruit and vegetables.\u00a0 We decided that one way to eat more fruit and vegetables was to have \u2018FRUIT FRIDAYS\u2019 in P3A (if our parents had any on that day – we discussed how fresh food goes out of date quickly).\u00a0 An encouragement to eat it will be a sticker reward.\u00a0 The children are looking forward to starting this next week and loved the new stickers Mrs Brown has for this health promotion task.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to Alicaj, our hot chocolate award winner this week and Tvisha, our Reading Champion!<\/p>\n
Lead Learners were Laura and Zion.\u00a0 They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.\u00a0 They also get to say something extra for the blog:<\/p>\n
Laura – \u201cI liked making common words out of playdoh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zion – \u201cI enjoyed benchball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Look out for a separate blog post this weekend that will show you some of the learning experiences your child will experience this coming term.<\/p>\n
Regards<\/p>\n
Mrs Brown<\/p>\n
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Hello P3A families, Happy New Year! \u00a0I hope you all had a restful break overt the holidays. \u00a0I swear the children have all grown!\u00a0 I was so happy to see everyone again and the children enjoyed being back at school … Continue reading