Welcome to Room 26, 2022 - Year of the Tiger

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 Hello and welcome to 2022's Room 26.

Our first week has really given us a chance to settle in smoothly with 2 days in our first week, and 4 days in our second.  Definitely a good transition period for our new class.

We have talked to each other about what we need to help us do our Mahi.  The aim by the end of Week 2 is to have created a Mahi agreement that we can use to support each other, and also know what each of us expect from each other.

We are also starting to make the class walls our own, creating About Me visual posters for display.  And we have been set a reading challenge, with the aim of reading a book that then gets recorded on a leaf.  We really want lots of leaves so that our book character Jack can climb the beanstalk to the Giant's castle.  To make sure we have a stalk to add out leaves to, we split up and given 1 sheet of paper that we tried to make the longest paper chain from.  It certainly was interesting to see the range of ideas and ways the groups were making their paper chain links.

With our first week now done, Whaea Lesley has already started showing us how to get into our Class Learning site, where we can find our Reading, Writing, Maths and Distance Learning.

Not long now until our real learning sessions start.  Hopefully most of them at school and not online this year.

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