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

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.