Week 2 Term 2

A busy week again this week.
Junior Kapahaka: Monday 11:40 (Years 1&2) with Ms Tamati
Netball: Monday and Wednesday.
Swimming: Tuesday and Thursday

As the mornings have been colder and our netball session is at 9:15 it is a good idea to have a jacket.

During Action Stations many children enjoy playing outside - to minimise the amount of leaves and dirt coming into the classrooms it would be a good idea for children to bring gumboots to school for wearing in outdoor play - a warm jacket and a hat would be useful too.
On Wednesday morning after interval, I will be spending some time at Alexandra Primary School looking at their play based learning programme that they started this year in the junior school. This is my Classroom Release time and Mrs Flannery will be in Room 3. I will also be using release time for testing everyone prior to report writing.

Reading: Thank you for listening to your child's reading each night. It is by reading and rereading that we build our sight words as we meet them in texts. Ask your child to identify the words from their lists. eg: Can you find 'went'?  What about on this page?  etc Then see if they can also find the word on their word chart. We are working on being 'flexible' in our word recognition. Likewise you could ask them to find words they are working on in the texts that you are reading to them or in a newspaper etc.  Check out where you can find LOOK on the footpaths around the town.

Sunshine On Line www.sunshineonline.co.nz The school has registered again for this site. Log-in and passwords will be glued into homewok books by Tuesday. Many of the sunshine readers are on here. Children can have these texts read to them - great to help them with fluency and listening to how punctuation is used to create meaning.

ABC: wow we are getting so smart with our letters - keep working on how to write each letter correctly - this will help us to become very efficient writers.

Spelling: some people in the "Spelling Group" will bring home a spelling list in their homework books from week 3. I am very particular about how this is set out, as we are learning the skill of how to articulate a word and record the sounds in order, we are not learning to know how to spell the words without saying and listening. The words we are practising on are easy at this stage. Check the back of homework books for the spelling tests done so far.

Seesaw: still one or two families have not set this app up. If you have lost the information, I am happy to reprint another.

Hoping this warmer weather keeps going as it is quite plaesant to be enjoying the outdoors still.