February 7

Welcome to the start of 2016. A new school year.

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I am grateful that you all got back your permission slips quickly, so now you are all officially my new Bloggers. Thank you parents and caregivers too. I hope you all keep checking in to read our blog and leave a comment or three.

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 What a fabulous bunch of eager year three learners. We are going to have a great year.

We have been very busy already getting to know our new classmates and learning what we need to do to work successfully in learning teams.

To start with, we needed to know what our Criteria for Success would be so that we can do our job well. That is … To Be The Best Learners We Can Be.

We came up with many ideas for us to work well, work safely and to show respect in our classroom this year, but we would have to have hundreds of rules to cover each one. So we summarised our lists.

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We made colourful paintings to show what our class would look like to the school community. Aren’t they stunning.

We have also made a start on practicing how our morning team meetings will go this year. This has been a challenge and we are trying to be efficient, as we learn all the roles. So we have learnt a new strategy to help us.

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It works, we managed to improve out meeting time by half. How good are we. Hey kids why not sing your folks the Kaizen song.

Here are some questions for you to think about and share your answers with us.

How do you feel, now that you are in the Primary section of the school?

What did you enjoy about your first week in year three?

What are you looking forward to?