Term 4: Learning Week 7

This week we are really busy. We will be meeting each day this week with the year 1's to practice our Christmas Show, so we are all ready for you to come and watch up next week. Please remember to bring in your clothes if you have not by Wednesday. The shows will only be running on

Tuesday 5th December at 9:30 am

and 

Wednesday 6th December at 2 pm 

(There are no tickets for this show, just a gold coin donation at the door if you would like to)

Please practice the songs at home. 

Along with this, we are learning this song for our Poem this week. We will be performing this to our VLC on Friday, with B4. In this Poem, we will be talking about the rhyming words, the beet and relating it to our own wish list to Santa.

In Writing this week, we are going to be writing our letters to Santa. We are going to use the Poem/Song as a model for our Letters to Santa. As a class, we will unpack the way we need to lay out a letter and what we need to include in it.

This will be our last week of Keeping ourselves safe. We will be covering dealing with unwanted behaviour and touches, and what words we should say, secrets and tricks and what we should do, adults who can help and safety rules. Please get in touch if you have any questions about this or would like further information. 

Please remember on Monday 4th December (Next Week) is our Whangaparaoaoa Primary School Community Christmas Picnic from 6 to 7:30 pm (at school). 

Reminders:

• All Library Books need to come back this week
• Assembly on Friday from 2:20 pm 

Week 6 Year 0, 1 and 2's Athletics

Week 6: Keeping Ourselves Safe

We have been talking about different touches and have made a poster of, Nice Touches, Hurt Touches, and Confusing Touches. 

Term 4: Week 6 Learning

Wow, we are into week 6 and what a busy week we have. On Tuesday we have the years 0, 1 and 2 Athletics Day. So please come down and watch and support us. It will be running from 9 am to 12:30 pm. The Year 1's start off with the track events (Running Races) and follow-on to the field events. The children have all been practicing there running, jumping and throwing skills, so this is a good chance for them to show you what they have learned. Also, the children can wear mufti clothes (Shorts and T-Shirt) See you all on Tuesday.

Along with this B3 and B4 will be starting our first week of 2 weeks of Keeping Ourselves Safe. This week we will be covering the importance of knowing our Full Name, Address and Phone Number, why we should know them and, who we should tell. Along with this, we will be talking about different touches (Nice Touch, Bad Touch, and Confusing Touch) which will follow us into labeling different parts of the body. Please keep an eye out, in your child's book bag as there may be a few task and follow-ups for you to complete at home with them.

Here is one of the clips that we will be sharing in class this week. 

For Writing this week, we are making cards to thank all the wonderful people who have helped B3 this year. We have had so many helpers this year from, helping in the class, class trips, supporting the class with resources and much more. Without all these wonderful people in our class community, we wouldn't have been able to complete and do the things we have this year. We want to THANK YOU for everything you have done.

Reading this week we are focusing on retelling the story, making sure we are pointing out the main details and retelling the story in order. Along with this, we will be revising the different strategies of decoding unknown words. Remember this is in our communication books.

Christmas Show

Please if you haven't sent your child's clothes in for the Christmas Show to bring them in by the end of the week. Also please remember the Christmas Show is on

Tuesday 5th December 9:30 am 

and

Wednesday 6th December 2 pm 
There is No tickets for this, just a gold coin donation at the door.

Reminders

• Monday: Library
• Tuesday: Athletics from 9-12:30
• Friday: Whole School Assembly from 2:20

Trip: Kaipara Plant Centre and Sculpture Trail

A wonderful day.

Thank you so much for all our parent helpers and our guides from Kaipara Plant Centre.

We covered many aspects of sustainability - growing your own vegetables, reusing all things even as art, caring for our bush and birds through regeneration and elimination of pests.

We broke into three groups and went on three different adventures

• a conservation trail where we learned about bush walk etiquette and safety; elimination of pests and why; the history of the bush we were in.
• a sculpture trail where we saw a beautiful vegetable garden and tried some edible flowers (Day Lilies) and chewed on some sugar cane. We also saw fascinating sculptures made from all sorts of recycled materials!!
• seed collecting and potting where we learned how to gather seeds from several native plants and we potted them up to bring home. Hopefully, we will have some new plants to plant in our gardens!

Our children represented us well and I didn't hear one complaint about the walking - 2.5km in total, I believe. There was so much to see and learn about the whole time there, was no time for feeling tired!

Everyone who was there wants to return again soon.

Term 4: Week 5 Learning

TRIP ON TUESDAY 14th NOVEMBER

On Tuesday, we head off on our trip to Kaipara Coast Plant Centre. The children will need to be at school on time with a packed morning tea, lunch and drink bottle. There is some walking through the bush, which is not in any way arduous, however appropriate footwear is a must (Gumboots is a good idea). Make sure we have our school hat and we will carry the school sunscreen. If your child is unduly affected by insect bites please send them with insect spray. Please also include a raincoat and jumper in case it's cold or there is a shower. Leave book bags at home.

We are continuing with our persuasive writing this week and will start on a bit of a Christmas/Santa theme as we build to the end of the year. We will write to Santa persuading him if we should be on the nice or naughty list. Along with this, we will be saying how we have reflected our ORCA values this year.

In Maths this week we will be revisiting Fractions and will match the symbols and the fractions together. We will also be ordering fractions from biggest to smallest.  Along with this we will be working out addition and subtraction problems using the best strategies to solve the problem. Ask me to share with you how I work out different addition and subtraction problems.

Athletics

We have been busy over the last few weeks practicing our field and track events for Athletics. The Year 1s and 2s Athletics day will take place on 21st November from 9 am to 12:30 pm. 

Year 1 Christmas Show

Please see the dates below as we have had to change the days and times of the shows as there was a clash with other commitments 

New dates are:

December 5th Tuesday - 9.30am performance

and

December 6th Wednesday - 2 pm performance

Reminders: 

• Monday: Library 
• Tuesday: Trip

Christmas Show

Sorry there has been a change of date and time to the Christmas Show 

New dates are:

December 5th Tuesday - 9.30am performance

and

December 6th Wednesday - 2pm performance

Term 4: Week 4 Learning

This week we will continue working on our inquiry Sustainability.  So far, we have been working on understanding what Sustainability is. We have also been talking about recycling and making sure we are recycling and using the compost bin where we can. The children have really got on board with this and they remind each other when an item is in the wrong place. So far in the class, we have a paper bin, compost bin, soft plastic and rubbish bin. Along with this, we have also made a list of different things we could do to help maintain and support the world we live in. From this list, we will be picking two of these, that the class will carry out. 

We thought we would share a clip that we really enjoy about 'Looking after our Planet'.

In Writing this week, we have planned to write a Persuasive piece of writing about 'The best thing to do at the Park is......' We came to writing on this topic as last week on Thursday we had a vote on what they would like, to persuade me about and this was the winner. The children have really been enjoying trying to persuade me with there opinions and have been doing some amazing writing. We will be reinforcing that the children are using different sentence starters from our Persuasive Anchor Chart and using a wider vocabulary in there writing, than just the words they can spell. 

In Maths this week we will be working on playing a game with a buddy, which involves the children collecting data in a tally chart and graphing in a simple chart after. From this, we will come back and talk about our findings and why ours are all different. Along with this we will work on equal sharing in our ability groups and be using our knowledge of sharing by 1, skip counting and doubles.

The Big Book we will be looking at this week is 'Little Dan'. With this book, we will be focusing on processing the information we have read, relating to a personal experience and changing the ending for the story. Along with this, while we are reading the book we will be working on finding interesting words, capital letters, punctuation and word families in the book.

The Poem for this week is 'Fun in a Box'. The poem we will be focusing on rhyming words, repeating sentence starters, relating to a personal experience and words and sounds of the week.

Reminders: 

• Library on Monday 
• Whole School Assembly Friday at 2:20 pm