Staying Safe at Cockle Bay in Level 2

 Parents might be interested to see what Level 2 looks like in Room 18:

It has been very important to ensure good hygiene practices are in place.  Everyone uses sanitiser or washes their hands with soap and water whenever they enter to the classroom, and before and after morning tea and lunch time.  People enter by the cloak bay door, and decide which hygiene practice they will use - the bubble machine makes it a bit more fun!

The tables and tops of chairs are cleaned at morning tea, lunch time and after school, so our desk name tags are not fixed at the moment to allow for more thorough cleaning.  In the morning, we decide where we will sit for the day, by placing our name tag on our chosen desk.  We also have a mood wall there we can place our name under the emoji that best describes our mood when we comes to school.  This helps us look after each other: we can see at a glance who is feeling tired or anxious, excited, happy or sad and may need a little bit of extra kindness to kick start the school day.



Some people sing 'Twinkle, twinkle little star' and some people count forwards or backwards to 20 to make sure that they clean their hands thoroughly for 20 seconds.


Tables have been arranged so that there is social distances between all students, based on the moist breathe zone.  This is the New Zealand government funded song which reminds us, as part of our daily news each morning after the roll.

We go out to play at morning tea and after lunch eating in our classrooms, but we stay inside before school.  There are plenty of activities to choose from, with some simple rules to remind us to keep social distancing.  We use the ipad trays to play with Lego, Mobilo or Kliko, we play with the magnets in groups of two, or on the Science table in a group of 3 - electronics is popular this week.



We sometimes watch a short video at lunch eating, or sometimes just chat to people near us.
SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) after morning tea and lunch also looks different as we are sitting at our desks for the time being, and not crowding on to the couch, cushions and bears in the class library

There is also plenty of time to have some fun in the sun as well!



Even the sunflowers have ben enjoying the sun while we were on Lockdown.  They were only 2 centimetres tall when we left in March!


We have also had some little visitors.  A family of mice made a newspaper nest in our cupboard in Room 18 when it was nice and quiet.  Next week, we will design a mouse house where they can live, far away from Cockle Bay!

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