Week 5


  



 The term is just flying past - week 5 already. Last week along with our usual learning we completed our "Kadinsky Art Wall," and completed our place mats for our tables. We had all together J.E.T on Friday which is always a huge hit - as the Year 2 children get to help the Year 1 children to explore new activities. Sadly our wheat tray we use for discovery play had become invaded with weevils - but what a great opportunity to explore these bugs.



Ruben persisted in making a special spaceship
from old boxes.



This week on Thursday night we have our Mix and Mingle night - form 4.30 - 6.30. This is a great opportunity for the children to show you their classroom, meet the teacher, mix with other families. We will have a sausage and then if the weather is kind and you wish to, the pool will be open for a swim. Please return the forms sent home on Thursday asap if you intend to come as we need to know how many sausages to order. Hopefully I will see you then.



Cody enjoyed exploring the "weevil" wheat tray.



Abby and Mrs S did puzzles in Room 2

Our sound of the week this week is "P", with our word of the week being " Away." For maths we will continue to look at number order, especially at the change in decades, counting both forwards and backwards.

Have a great week and I hope to see you on Thursday evening.
Annette

Week Four

Wow, it is so great to see the sun this weekend - let's hope it stays as the weather certainly isn't helping our swimming programme.

Rita Palmer ( literacy expert) came into our room last week, we look forward to her visiting again soon to assist with our writing programmes. Sadly Fiona Hurley ( swim safe NZ) put off her visit due to the weather, hopefully she will be back in soon.

We have all now well and truly settled into Room 4 and the class routines. The children have quickly got used to their maths change-over class, ask them who they are with and in which room. Our maths focus initially is number identification along with number sequence.

Our word of the week this week is "went" ensuring we don't muddle it with "want. Our sound of the week is " N."

Olivia and Emily enjoyed tasting the kumera from our junior school vegie garden along with sprouts, carrot, beans and broccoli. Cody said" I didn't like kumera but I do like it now!"

Jorja and Scarlett were very busy during J.E.T.aking dolls houses out of cardboard boxes. they made candy houses.

Let's hope the sun stays shining this week,
Have a great week.
Annette

Week Three

Thank you so much for your support with readers coming home. It makes such a difference to your child's learning if they can read to you each night.

This week we are changing over into our maths "NUMP" classes. Some children will move to another room for maths number sessions - this is so they are learning at the level that they need to be at. These groupings will change throughout the year.

We had J.E.T ( junior exploration time ) last week for the first time - the children choose from an array of activies, expectations are set prior to the session by the children, then these are evaluated at the end of the time. More often than not the children are so engrossed in what they are doing that they are not aware of the  learning that is happening.

Jorja and Danika enjoying the crackers that they buttered themselves.

William, Blake and Rhys experimenting with more than one person in the Dizzy Lizzy.
Could they make it spin?

 The weather is not being so kind to us for swimming - hopefully we will get back in soon. Fiona Hurley will be coming again to assist with sessions.

Tuesday we have Rita Palmer visiting our class rooms. Rita is a literacy advisor and she will be working with teachers during the year.

Have a great learning week.
Annette

Week Two

Welcome to Week two. 


I do hope that you all had a great Waitangi day?


This week readers will be coming home. As children may have progressed and changed levels over the holidays, don't be concerned if their readers are too easy or hard. I will be looking at this through out the week. Each night their reader comes home they will also bring a " Books I have read" form. Could you please fill in the story title and sign, returning the book the next day. Sadly, as so many books go missing we will not be sending another book home until the reader is returned.


Our maths focus this week remains "Statistics" but looking at probability. Is it likely that something "will" "might" or "won't" happen.


On Tuesday we have Fiona Hurley from Swim safe NZ visiting, she will be assisting with our swimming program. 


Have a great week.


Annette