Sarah’s Class Term 1 Week 1

Welcome back everyone!

It was soooooo lovely to see all the children on Tuesday morning and get well and truly into our timetable and routine. The group is gorgeous and already starting to become a little community. We’ve packed a lot into our first week: On our first day we named & labelled our lockers, book boxes and work books. We started our English/Science unit on the Earth and looked at the effects of deforestation through the Dr Seuss book “The Lorax”. From this, the children voted that our class name be called after the character and name of the book. So, we are officially (for this term) “The Lorax’s”. We watched a short video on the importance of trees and all the things they provide. I reminded the children about our school recycling and the colour coded bins we have and what goes into them. We created a wall display, named a new black fish in our tank and established tidy-up jobs and all that needs doing.

On Wednesday, it was lovely to see Carolina (for Spanish) and Crafty return. We had a VERY long class meeting which included discussing and making some class agreements. Thursday, we started the day writing some of the benefits trees have on our environment. I handed out Handwriting books which the children got into with gusto, and they did some colouring in and silent reading to themselves. Thursday afternoons is our class craft time, so the children finished the day with Crafty.

On Monday, we have our first music lesson with Gemma, our new music teacher. Tuesday, we start back at swimming. This will happen in the mornings now, and we will go with Wendy’s group to the pool, leaving at approx 9:40 am. The children will need to wear their swimmers to school and bring all the usual gear. They will then get changed when we get back to school.

I will look forward to seeing as many of you that can make it next Wednesday night for our Parent/Teacher night, kicking off at 6:00 pm sharp! I’ll talk more about our class timetable and routines then.

Love, Sarah