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

Week 9

Only two weeks left of this term I can't believe it. But they will be very busy weeks!

This Tuesday is esp busy, we have Rita Palmer the literacy advisor assisting with our writing program. Also Tuesday night if we hold our mouths right, and the weather stays okay we will have our Mix and Mingle evening from 4.30 - 6.00 ish. We will follow the same format as planned before but without the swim. Feel free to set up a game etc, we will have equipment out.

This is our last week with Zoe Thoresen in our room, she heads back to Palmerston teachers college the week after. It has been lovely to have her in the room.

Scarlett and Danika the builders at J.E.T.

Last Friday saw us having all together J.E.T again. Everyone enjoyed assisting the younger children while exploring and discovering themselves.

Cody exploring how to get the water from the trays down to other levels using the pipes.

We then followed on our theme of our local community, making fire-engines from egg cartons.

Some of our awesome Fire-engines.

What a treat wacky hair mufti day was - the children raised over $400 for child cancer. well done!

Wacky Hair day sure turned Friday into a wacky day.

Our word of the week will be " likes"
Our sound of the week is "Ww"
Our maths focus changes to looking at the tens and ones in numbers, (along with hundreds for experts.)

Have a great week.
Annette

Week 8

Rhys' elmer from last week.

What a great week we have had. It is lovely to have Miss Thoresen in our room for the next couple of weeks. She is from Palmerston North Teachers college and is on a placement in our room.

The weeks are flying past so quickly - this past week our for our focus of 'You, Me, We" we all walked around the school, looking at the teachers and Staff , identifying where they can usually be found. The writing that we produced about this is awesome. The children were each given a different staff member to write about and the information they provided about them is fabulous. These are up on our wall. eg "Steph issues our books in the library" Samuel. "Mr Turfrey is special because he sits on the white seats at lunch time," Danika.




Our footprint creatures.

  On Friday we produced some amazing freestyle art using our foot print. The intruction was to make a creature by tracing around your foot first, then use your imagination. The results were so original.

J.E.T had an interesting challenge this week - to create a kite that could fly. Blake discovered a way to control the string. William and I researched the name of this device, a reel containing the flying line.

Misaki's Elmer, from last week.

Next week we have our walk around Taradale. Thank you we have all permission slips returned. If you offered to come with us thank you. We will be leaving school at 9.30, returning by 11.45ish.


Our sound of the week is "Bb" with our word being "with."  The maths focus is still ordering a range of numbers. Some groups will look at numbers to 100, with others looking at numbers to 1000.
Have a great week.
Annette

Blakes kite with the reel and flying line.

Week 7

This week we have a special visitor in our room. Miss Thorensen is visiting us from Palmerston North Teachers College. It will be so great to have another teacher in the classroom.

Thank you to all of you who have returned both your t-ball notice and also your trip notice for our walk around Taradale. T-ball will begin this Wednesday from 3.10 - 3.45. It is a fun relaxed way for the children to take part in an afterschool activity.

Our walk around Taradale, including a visit to the Taradale library will be a great way for us to see first hand some of the services/shops available in Taradale - all part of our  "You, Me, We" topic.

Danika, Tai and Cooper enjoyed planting and watering
the seeds.



Iriaka tried blueberries.



J.E.T. was fun last Friday - along with many other activities, we tasted some fruits and planted the seeds that Olivia's dad kindly gave us along with the seed raising pots. We will watch these seeds grow then transfer them into our junior school garden.

This week our sound of the week is "Tt"
Word of the week is  "then"
Our maths focus will be sequencing a range of numbers that don't follow in order. eg 12, 24, 74, 34, 23.

Dylan did some great discovering,
he explored about not just how to make the train stop and start, but also
why the leaver worked.

We have just completed some amazing art ( that we started with Mrs Harris) about being unique. If you get a chance pop in to see it. I'll add some to the blog next week.


Annette

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