Sunday 4 March 2018

Week 6 Term 1

Great to see the transition skills, that most people put into practise this afternoon. We are well prepared to self manage our transitions at the triathlon tomorrow. (Tuesday).
Please remember to wear school sports uniform perhaps with school tack pants as the weather forecast is for a cooler day. Bring plenty to drink and something warm to put on after your race. Seems absurd, but it is important to wear your school sunhat, as the weather could surprise us. Just the reality of living on an island.

  • School Mass at 9am tomorrow led by Room 2 & Room 6. Please join us for this celebration.
  • Fridge words this week: tessellation, inspired, transition, pollution. We are hearing some well thought out sentences when we share with our talking buddies on Friday.
  • Census: take the time to talk to your child about this 'taking of statistics' for the whole of New Zealand. Perhaps if you haven't already completed yours, you could do it as a family activity.
  • Reading: well done to those people who are reading every night and writing this into their blue line each night in the diary. There are always books in the group reading boxes, so there should be a book every night. This is another area to self manage this year.
  • Spelling: on Friday we learned how to conduct and tool a list clearly and accurately. For the next 2 weeks children will be working through this list every day as part of their Literacy time "must do". We will test these on Friday at school.  Those on the STEPS programme have these words in their learning for this week - Mrs Nicholson has added these. You can expect to have the first spelling list home in week 8.
  • Wednesday: will be art with Mrs Laidlaw, so no Discovery. 
Great to see how so many people are really taking charge of their learning. I can't wait to see some puppet plays presented - making & designing puppets is a literacy "can do", and there have been some very busy beavers.


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