Week 7 Term 2

Gosh a short but busy week last week. I have nearly finished all the testing in preparation for report writing. This will be available for you to see at the parent interviews - it has been exciting to see how many children are using their alphabet knowledge to help them with unknown words when reading texts. This individual testing allows for precise 'where to next' for each child. The last 3 children's reading assessments will be completed on Wednesday morning when I have CRT release. Mrs Rowena Te Huia-Holmes will be teaching Room 3, as Mrs Flannery is off to camp with years 7 & 8.

Rooms 3 & 7 will be leading assembly this Friday at 9am in the school hall. We hope some of you are able to join us at this time.

Jackets & hats: it is important for children to have a warm jacket for playing outside at lunch and playtimes. There is also action station playing options outside and warm clothing is needed for this.

Skating: will be on Tuesday and Thursday mornings in the last 2 weeks of this term. See the newsletter for further information.

Poetry Eisteddfods: This is the week to have that poem or nursery rhyme chosen. We will be bringing home poetry books each night to help with this. Thank you for helping your child with this. Ideally every child will have chosen their poem by the end of this week.

Reading: will be our poems. We will have a new poem each day. Children will also bring home a book from their browse box. Of course bedtime stories read by you to your children will complement this.

Fridge Words this week are: scampered, disappeared. You can find these words written into the 'Fridge Words' page in homework books. Have a chat with your child - how many different oral sentences can you make using one or other of these words?

Spelling: The spelling group is learning about 'long a' spelling patterns this week. The patterns we will learn about are: ay - play, a-e - make (we call this pattern "a split e"), and ai - wait. as well as tooling these look out for these spelling patterns in reading.

Have a great week. Despite a cold start another beautiful day to be outside after lunch. Wrap up and enjoy these great central days.