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Grades 9 and 10 performing to Grade 1!
The Grade 9 and 10 band students should be feeling very proud of themselves. Just before online...
Rainy Days in Grade 1
What an exciting week! We love the rain and had lots of fun making word clouds, and writing...
Sharing and Presenting Stories
This week we showcase our dioramas. The children chose a learner's profile attribute to be the...
Balanced Learners thinking about LESS screen time.
Grade Ones are thinking about all the fun activities they can do away from the screen. We are...
5-a-Day in Grade 1.
No, we are not talking about fruit and vegetables! We have 5 ways to practice our reading and...
We Know It Is Really Important To Care For The Earth.
Celebrating Earth Day. Today, Grade One's discussed the importance of the Earth and we thought...
Love your Earth.
Grade 1 celebrated Earth Day wearing the colours of nature. There is blue for the sky and water we...
Wowee! What a Great Job You Did At Your Conferences!
Congratulations boys and girls. I am sure your mums and dads were very impressed by your hard work...
Learner led – and ‘nailed’!
Grade 1 faced a big challenge this week . . . leading their own conferences, and doing this...
Go Grade 1!
Well done Grade 1! We can see that you have grown as learners and are being great self-managers....
Spot the difference . . .
Grade 1 is back on line . . . and better than ever before. We’d all rather be face to face at...
Grade 1’s got spirit!
What a week! We have had so much fun and friendship. In today’s post we are going to celebrate the...
More Stories and Spirit Week in G1
We enjoyed seeing what our friends wore for Spirit week. We also enjoyed measuring capacity of...
Check Out Our Designer Shoes!
Following on from the Shoemaker and the Elves fairy tale, we designed and made our own shoes...
Collecting and packing in Grade 1 . . .
Check out our Packets of Ten! We had so much fun, and quite a bit of challenge collecting 50...
Stories, Stories Everywhere!
This unit of inquiry is huge! We write stories, we solve number problems and we enjoy reading...
Celebrating our languages.
Grade 1 has been inquiring about ‘problems. We have decided there are ‘small problems’ and ‘big...
Learning can be fun!?
Despite being a short week, the children did excellent work. We consolidated the learning about...
A little seed for me to sow. . . .
A little soil to make it grow. A little hole, a little pat, . . . A little wish and that is that....
Using Language!
The children made great connections between our different languages and found a few similarities...