Production Snapshots

Congratulations to all of our wonderful, amazing Ants!!  You did an awesome job and worked as a team to make our show amazing!!

You can now have a rest until our next big adventure!

Andy's Garden Junior Production 2016

Maori whanau and a sneak peek...

Each week we have a lesson exploring Maori words, phrases, waiatas and culture.
At the start of each lesson we sing this waiata as a greeting.  This is the link for you to practise with your family if you would like to. Greeting waiata

We have learnt how to say our name in Maori and are now learning the names of our family members.  You can practise with you child saying: Ko (name) oh (My name is ....)

Practising with our friends

Maori whanau chart

We have been hard practising for our production. Here is a sneak peek...

See you at the show!!

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to those people that completed a maths challenge activity last week for Maths Week. We had a variety of items and it was great to see the children taking responsibility for their own work when they shared it with the rest of the class.

As production practising is taking up a lot of our time, we have been focussing on positional language, ordinal numbers and the language of probability during maths time.

Assembly

Well done to Room 5! 

 Everyone did an excellent job of learning how working together requires a range of different skills.

 Next week we will continue this idea as we start seeing the different skills that the Year 1 and 2 classes will bring as we practise for our big school production. 

Please mark in your diaries September 6 and 8 for our evening performances.

Here we are practising our different parts for Friday's Assembly.

Our feelings

Children's Voice: This week in writing, we wrote about our feelings as a follow up to the Life Education Van. Here are some of our stories that we will illustrate and put into our published stories folders.

I am happy when I go to the supermarket.

By Albert

I am happy when I am going in my Mum’s and Dad’s car.

By Bella

I am feeling excited because I’m going to have an ice cream.

By Ismaiah

I like talking about bees.

By Alea

I am happy when I am playing.

By Mason A.

I am happy when I am dressing up.

By Veronica

I am angry when mosquitoes are biting me in bed.

By Archer

Last week we read the book Greedy Cat. Here is our version of it. Have fun reading it with your child.

Teacher Voice: Please check you child's book bag on a regular basis to retrieve notices.  I hope you saw the notice about bringing in a black top and bottom for the Production costume.

We are getting excited about being on stage with Room 8 for this Friday's assembly at 2:15.

Term Three Information and Update

Welcome to Lily Liu, Mason Eddington and Jayjay Havealeta to Room 5!  Our class is now complete for the time being so it is great to have everyone on board.

We have had a very busy start to the term. This week we had two trips to the Life Education van, a rippa rugby session and we have also started practising for our production. Whew!

I have also included some pictures at the end of the blog from the end of Term 2 festivities for you to look at.

Spellathon:  It is great to see everyone has started learning their words and finding some sponsors. I have a few spare sheets, so if you did not receive your Spellathon information at the end of Term 2, while I was away, please see me.

Holiday Reading: Well done to those people that completed the Holiday Reading Programme and for everyone that kept on reading right through the holidays. It really makes a BIG difference to their literacy progression.

Assembly - We have our School Assembly with Room 8 in Week Three. We would love it if you could come and watch us.  We will be practising for this over the next two weeks.

Production:  We have already started practising our songs and dances for our performance. As this takes up a lot of time this term, normal activities such as reading, writing and maths, may not occur every day. At these times, seen books from their reading box or thier poetry book will come home instead.  If you are able to sew or paint the props, please get in touch with Anna Blair in Room 6. Thank you.

Maths: Over the next few weeks in maths we are studying position and direction. Encourage your child to use language such as over, under, left, right high low, near, far to describe where objects are in relation to each other. Ask your child to describe the path they would follow to get from one end of the garden to their room. Ask them to describe the route they take to get to a friend's house.

Oral language: Encourage your child to use complete sentences whenever they are speaking, instead of just a word or two. This will help them during writing to form whole ideas and to show that ideas need to make sense.

Reminders: Rocket word testing continues this term. Library is on Friday. Raincoats should always be in school bags.

I look forward to meeting with people on Thursday for interviews.

Children's Voice:
I liked seeing Harold. - Leonie
I liked seeing a movie about Harold's friends. - Mason E
I liked going in the caravan and we saw Harold. - Archer
I like listening to stories. - Ismaiah
I liked writing about fairies. - Lily
I like to play on the golden monkey bars at school. - Jahzelle
I like the creative table where we can make things- Sienna
I like playing with Albert. - Mason A

Goodies and Baddies Day

Rippa Rugby

Room 5 meets Harold