Welcome to Room 2

Real learning is messy! So our first lessons today have focused on tidying up after ourselves. We have been listening to instructions and putting things away just as the are were when we got them out and we are pretty good at it so far. Well done Room 2, you're awesome!

Today we have been getting to know our new room and each other by making some placemats for our desks and creating our first of many masterpieces for the wall.

We have been moving around to music a lot today (due to rain). We will have frequent 'brain breaks' during the day, just stopping for 3-4 minutes to get our blood pumping. Brain research shows that physical movement has a massive impact on our ability to learn and to retain new learning. Hydration is also important, especially on these hot days, so if you haven't got a named water bottle for school please remember to bring one. I am off to my exercise class tonight so I will be extra fit and it might help me remember all of the new names and faces from today.

Thank you for sending your children to school so ready to learn and for the lovely welcome I have had to Maori Hill School. What a great start to the year. Once I have permission from everyone to share photos of our work I will upload pictures of our finished artwork from this week. The portraits are gorgeous, we have been having lots of fun guessing who is who.