Week Four

Wow! What a busy week we have just had. Tuesday we had Rita Palmer ( Literacy Advisor) visiting. She had a lot of great ideas to add detail to our writing. Wednesday we were so privileged to have "Strike" visiting. The are a group of amazing drummers who wowed us all with their energy and skills. ( Don't be surprised if you are asked for a drum set for birthdays - sorry!) Thursday Craig Findlay from Kelly sports visited with Lisa- they showed us some games to play to enhance our ball skills.



Strike performing in the hall on Wednesday.



Room four drummers in action.Tim from Strike had suggested
practicing using pencils - thank goodness it was a wet morning tea -
 then the drumming ended.



Preparation is well underway for your parent/teacher interviews. I am looking forward to sharing with you your child's great learning and their goals for the rest of the year.

This coming week we will be continuing with our Reduce, Reuse, Recycle unit. Thinking about more ways we can reduce the waste that we create at school each day.

Our sound of the week is " gr"
Our word of the week is "was"



Thank you also to everyone who helped contribute to the "asthma society" coin trail. The kids were all excited to get their wrist bands - but it also generated an interesting discussion about asthma and what it is.

Enjoy your week

Blake and Ollie designing a town plan using recycled paper.

Annette

Week 3

Week 2 seems to have flown past - so much happened during the week. Everyone is focused - trying hard to take "responsibility" for their own learning.

Last week we read an amazing book called  "the garbage barge" which retold the story of Long Island in the USA sending out a barge full of their garbage to other states hoping they would bury this rubbish for them. The children all thoroughly enjoyed this story and it certainly provoked so very interesting discussions.

Thank you so much to all the parents who have used our new booking system and booked their Parent / Teacher interviews for later in the month - if you are still wanting to book, either read my earlier posting or pop in and see me, I am only to happy to help.


Our word of the week is " your"

our sound of the week is "dr"

The room four maths focus is adding together groupings of ten e.g. 30 + 20

This week we are also lucky to have a visiting group performing - this cost had been covered by our generous P.T.A.( thank you so much) The show is called "Strike" and they are a group of drummers who I am sure will wow us with their rhythm and beat.

Thank you also for the fantastic positive comments that are being left on our blog - the children love reading these.



Samuel and Marshall playing with the duplo at J.E.T.

 Below are some photos from the past week, thanks to our photographer was Scarlett.

Indigo and Emily with their recycled treasures. Abby and Emily are looking on.

A group of Room 4 girls creating at the play dough table.

Have an great week.
Annette

Parent Teacher Interviews

A quick note to say you can  book a Parent /Teacher interview at wwwschoolinterviews.co.nz  follow the link and the password that came home on the newsletter on Tuesday.
Thanks
Annette

Week Two

It was so great to be back at school and see everyone again, and it was also great to see everyone so pleased to be back.

We had an awesome learning week, the children all had some interesting facts/ideas to share when we had our pre-topic discussion about " Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." We then discussed how the rubbish we create goes to a landfill, and talked about what might happen when this gets full. What we can do to try and stop this happening. Cody came up with an interesting solution -  "we could send it to outer space."

If anyone has bread tags or old letter box flyers we would be able to have put them to good use.

This week I will begin testing for our upcoming parent-teacher interviews. I will let you know asap when the timetable is ready so you can schedule a time. We will also be beginning our maths number change-overs again.

Our word of the week is " one"
Our sound of the week is "cl "


We has a very productive J.E.T time, with a group of children helping to weed our overgrown vegie garden.  Lots of children also chose to help me at luchtime to carry on with this huge task. It will be ready for planting with our seedlings soon.

Below are some photos of J.E.T. from this week

A group of us tearing waste paper in preparation for making paper. 



Rhys and Emily ready to plant our seedlings but... the weeding had to be done first.

Emily busy making her box man from scraps of old paper

Clare showing Danika and Ruben how to begin their box person.

Have a great week.
Annette

Term 2

I do hope that you have all had a fantastic holiday. I am so looking forward to seeing everyone again on Monday morning and hearing about your holiday adventures.
It will be a broken week this week, with ANZAC day on Wednesday.
Our sound of the week will be "Bl"
Our word of the week will be "where"


Enjoy the weekend
Annette

Easter Holidays

Have a great relaxing easter break everyone. Thank you all for your fabulous comments over the past term. Till next term--- and even more fantastic learning.

Week 10

I can't believe that this is the last week of Term 1. It has been a very busy and productive learning term.

It was great to catch up with so many of you at the "Mix and Mingle" evening.

This week we will finish up our " You, Me, We" topic. Readers will come home Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Our sound of the week will be "Dd" along with the word of the week "today."
We will be staying in our own classroom for maths, looking at "Money," identifying notes and coins along with adding together same value coins, notes, e.g. $2 + $2 + $2.

Blake working hard on his community helpers picture.

We were very lucky to work with Rita Palmer this past week. She modelled writing techniques that I will be able to use with all our writing groups.



Children working with Mrs Palmer

I hope that you all have a lovely, safe and relaxing Easter holidays and return refreshed for the new term.

Kind regards
Annette