Geordie

=3/2/2012=

Geordie knows all his green sight words, and more. Woo hoo!!!!!!
=10/2/2012= Geordie had a great time at the beach during Beach education. He is getting very good at being able to say what the three rules are for staying safe at the beach. Here he is building a sand castle with Ben and Jordan. =27/2/2012= I have been very impressed with Geordie the past few days. He and Jakob have been helping each other with their learning around reading. They have been choosing books from their browsing boxes, reading them to each other, and voluntarily checking each other on the sight words in class. Not just the orange ones, but all three levels. Ka pai! What champions! =1/3/2012= ====Happy 6th Birthday Geordie! We had cake and balloons today. What a huge smile on his face today. Geordie is taking his learning to another level this week. Here he is working really hard during his phonics lesson. He is writing a dictated sentence with all the words correct first time, well done.====

=2/3/2012= ====Geordie is working very hard in handwriting. He has a goal to work on and is marked according to his goal. He is currently learning how to rule off neatly to finish his work. This supports his fine motor skills, holding the ruler and drawing his pen across at the same time. He is about to finish this goal as he can do this well. If you look carefully you can see that his last ruling off (above his hand) is marked in green. This tells Geordie that he has done it well and should ai to get it the same the next time.====

=15/3/2012 - We are learning to write a description.= ====Weka have been writing descriptions. Here is Geordie's work he has published. I am sorry that some of it is hard to see, the light was not great when I took the photos (the green pages are the same). Feel free to come into class and the real work up on the wall. It is always much better in person.====

=21/3/2012 BIG IDEA - CHANGE IN OUR COMMUNITY - WHY THE PAST IS IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE= ====We have looked a lot at the past and present this term. Looking at the buildings around Waikari and trying to understand why looking after things that are old is important to people in our community. All the Wekas had to come up with a question about the building they had chosen. Once we decided on our questions we invited a range of people from our community in to talk with us. We found out some very interesting things about our community. Here is Geordie asking his question to Mel Ruck.====

=27/3/2012= ====Every term we focus on one of the school's PRIDE values. This term we have been looking at respect. How we show respect to other people, to ourselves and our things. Today we talked again about what we can do to show respect and had some time to show some of the skills we have been working on. Geordie is showing respect by returning Jake rubber when he had finished with it. This is something that Geordie is very good at. Well done Geordie!====

=2/4/2012=