Term 3 Week 7

 Kia Ora everyone!

Have a look at our superstar certificate holders for this week; Luke, Aarav, and Heidi. Anaya also won the Duffy award but was excitedly collecting her book whilst we snapped our picture!

We also celebrated Pajama/ slippers day on Friday which helped to raise money towards the senior camp trip. There was some very funky pajamas going on!

Roundup of the week (pictures to follow):

This week we have been reading the story: Weta went walking. 

We have based our Writing around it and the children have produced some awesome stories!

In Maths we have been finishing our topic on addition, ready to move onto subtraction. Many of the children are starting to see the number bonds to 5 and 10 which is really helpful for them in their quick addition skills. Next week we will specifically be looking at the '1 more' and '1 less' ideas.

In Handwriting the children have settled into the routine of filling in one page of their handwriting books first thing on a morning, and practicing a letter in their 'how to write' books each afternoon.

In Topic we are continuing to create our product for the upcoming craft market. We are keeping it a little bit secret so that we can finalise it but next week we will be beginning full time creation of our product so you will start to see lots of picture appearing.

Finally, in Te Reo we have made a very positive start in learning a little bit of Maori and a little bit of New Zealand Sign Language. We talked about how important languages are to us and how useful it is to know other languages. Room 16 have been learning to say hello/good morning to the register in different ways as well so thank you to all the adults who have encouraged this too- I am not surprised anymore when the children are teaching me a different way to say hello! 

Thank you all the Room 16 adults for your support in the transition back to school. 

Miss Rayner