Swimming and Easter Rhyme

Room 1 had a great time displaying all that we have been learning at swimming time. Thank you to all the parents who came and watched! We have been learning about water safety, especially the most important thing that we need to be able to do in a pool, river or ocean-FLOAT! 

For our poem this week we did the Easter Rhyme. We have also been using it in our prayers as it tells the story of when Jesus died on Good Friday and rose again on Easter Sunday. We hope you enjoy reading it together at home! 

Beginning of Lent

The Liturgical Year of Lent has been a major focus for the week-we celebrated Shrove Tuesday by making pancakes with Room 5. We made pancakes because we remember when people used to give up eating sweet things like cakes-so they cleaned out their cupboards by making pancakes. We also watched as last year’s palms be burned- this is how ashes are made. Wednesday was the first day of Lent. We began our day by attending Mass and receiving the Ashes from the palms on our forehead. We were thinking of promises all week that we will keep for the forty days of Lent. We wrote about these during writing and put them on our promise feet so that we can remember every day what we promised to Jesus. We have also started learning the song ‘L-O-V-E’ by Jill Kemp in lead up to Easter.

All about me!

This week in Room 1, we have been collecting information about ourselves! Our favourite colours, pets, ice cream and the number of people in our family. From the information we collected, Ms Scanlan helped us put it into a graph! This helps us to read our information a lot easier-come into Room 1 and check it out.

We have had our first two sessions of swimming this week and it has been the best weather for it! We have been learning how to do a 'safe entry' into the water along with floating on our back and blowing bubbles. All of these skills, especially a 'safe entry' and floating in the water, will keep us safe in any water we decide to hop into. 

Praying

This week, Room 1 have been exploring Prayer. We now know that Prayer is talking to and listening to God! We can also do it in many places at home and at school-on the deck, in the church, at the Jesus statue, in the library, in the prayer garden and to the Good Shepherd. When we are in the classroom, we practise how to be still and quiet when we are praying so that we can listen to God even better. 

First Week of School Term 1 2019

It is such a pleasure to welcome all the families and children to Room 1- Abby, Hugo, Liam, Tevita, Morena, Reece, Yasmine and Levi. 

We have had a great first week of school! We are learning our Key Competency-Managing Ourselves, and have been settling into our routine very smoothly.  We are having so much fun getting to know each other and learning new games, letters, words and the Good Shepherd Way. 

We can't wait to keep watching them grow into the Good Shepherd School Community. 

Maths, Maths, Maths!

Room 1 love maths! Especially when we get to have independent learning time-choose an independent task that relates to our personal next steps in maths. As our strand learning, we have been using measurement and all the vocabulary that goes with it-big, small, thin, wide, tall, short! We have been comparing lots of different sizes. This will help us solve lots of different mathematical problems everyday. The best thing about our maths learning is that we have been working interdependently-with each other! We learn so much more effectively that way.  

October, the Month of Mary!

Room 1 have been learning all about our blessed Mother Mary. October is the month of the Rosary so every morning at prayers, we have been praying a decade of the Rosary. Our prayer leaders are in charge of this, and we get to hear the special mystery story that goes with each decade (10 Hail Mary's). We have been learning so much about Mary and how Tapu she really is! In your homes you may like to pray the Rosary too using Room 1's Prayer Bag.