Week 8

What a great week of learning experiences we had last week. Rita Palmer ( literacy advisor) was visiting, she has provided teachers with more interesting ways to add depth to the children's writing. We started making our recycled container's - by putting paper mache over the outside of the old containers.

Table 3 busy with paper mache.

Paper mache is so much fun.

Friday we had altogether JET with Rooms 1,2,3,5,& 6 Lots of fun and discovering happened. It is also great to hear the children discussing our Bledisloe 3 R's in our pre -JET  discussions., esp how to be resilient during this time.

Olivia, Ruben, Scarlett and Abby sharing their "Munch Monsters" at the after Jet discussion time.

Recycled paper planes.

 Notices went home on Friday for our trip to visit the Napier City Council Education officer ( at the Aquarium) This trip will take place on the 18th of June. We do need parents to assist with transport and supervision for this. It also includes a $2.00 charge, ( the additional cost is being met by the school.)

This week we have Di Harvey ( the maths advisor) visiting on Monday, then Liz Fitzsimons is visiting on Wednesday to provide us with an ICT challenge for the next few weeks.

This will also be my last week for parent / teacher conferences.

Also on Friday, after whole school singing, all children will be revisiting their Whanau classroom for a story. This is to compliment our readathon that has been happening for the past week. In Room Four we have been reading more stories each day, some of these have been read by me, some by the children and some on the Interactive White Board. We have also had Heather Murphy come in to read to the children.

This week our maths focus changes to Algebra - looking at patterns.

Our sound of the week is "sp"

Our word of the week is "ready"

Enjoy the learning week