Term 4 Week 6

** IMPORTANT    INFORMATION**         THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19^th

Discoverers teachers are attending a professional development seminar in Levin on Thursday 19^th November.  The seminar begins at 3:30pm. We are making some adjustments to our programme that day in order to get to the seminar on time. Our usual morning Kotahitanga time will be held in the afternoon.

Children in Rooms 15, 16, 17,18 and 24 will be in ROOM 17 and will need to be collected from there at 300pm.

Children from Rooms 4, 5, 6 and 7 will be in ROOM 4 and will need to be collected from there at 3:00 pm

Discoverers teachers will not be available for meetings or conversations that afternoon.

Term 4 Week 5

Swimming:
This Friday afternoon.
Children must have their school sunhats.

Fireworks art/writing:

The fireworks were cool.
Kate

I went to my friend's house and saw some fireworks. 
Jesse

I went to home and saw some fireworks.
Angelo

At Otaki I went up to Andy's house and saw the fireworks. 
Amelie

At my grandad's house I did some fireworks and a square one headed to me and I didn't get on fire.
Kalon

I had fireworks at Fraser's house. 
Jack

When I was at home I saw fireworks. The fireworks shot up. 
Kobi

I did fireworks at my house. 
Daisy

I heard the fireworks at home. 
Mario

I had fireworks at Mum's house and at Dad's house. 
Kayla

I didn't hear the fireworks. 
Niamh

On Saturday I saw fireworks at my house. 
Elijah

At my next door neighbour's I saw some fireworks out my window. 
Sophie

I went to fireworks at the race cars. 
Riley

At the fireworks I saw a fire engine.
Lachlan

I saw some fireworks at my own house.
Harleigh

I went to Wellington and I saw the fireworks.
Lydia

At my friend's house I did fireworks.
George

I went to Sienna's house to see some fireworks.
Isabelle

Term 4 Week 4

Guest author/illustrator/cartoonist Stu Duval

On Thursday we had a guest visit the school.

In preparation we had looked at a few video clips to see who Stu Duval was. We had a go at his S people drawing instructions.You can see some of our S people drawings in class.

When Stu Duval came to school he even talked about the S people drawings...and drawing using other letters and numbers as a starting point. He drew Mr Milmine by starting with the number 7!

"S, 2 dots, a prickle and a line."

Stu Duval drew a character from one of his stories, the little book monster. It was great to see the little monster appear before our eyes.

Stu then told us his story about the book monster. We were mesmerised!

More information available on his website: www.studuval.com

Swimming:

Starts next week - Friday 13 November and Friday 27 November are our two sessions this term.

Term 4 Week 3

Letter of the week: s - starts with Amelia's open mouth

Assembly:

Room 6 will be joining Room 5 in leading the assembly this Friday. Whanau welcome. Assembly takes place in the hall at 2:00.

Term 4 Week 2

Letter of the week: d
 "Amelia's mouth, close it, tall stick"

Fabulous work:

Reading homework
Just to clarify how I am running my reading programme...
your child will have read a book in class that is at a challenging level for them (in guided reading groups). S/he would have worked on strategies to work out new words, practised his/her "story voice" for fluency, looked at features of text and may have, depending on level, studied spelling patterns.
Your child is then able to choose a book to take home to share with you. Often this is a "kit box" book - a range of easier books or books that they have read before. 
The reasons for an easier book coming home are:

• I want your child to be successful reading with you so that you can all enjoy story time
• your child gets to choose what they would like to read and often they like to repeat books - it builds confidence and fluency
• reading at home should be enjoyable not hard work

If you have any queries regarding this then please let me know in person or by email.

Skoolbo

I will be sending home information about how to download Skoolbo and your child's login details. This is an optional tool for learning and children appear to enjoy the game-like feel of it. And it is free!

Term 4 Week 1

Welcome back to school. I hope you had a lovely holiday together as a family. 


Letter of the week:  g 

"Amelia's mouth, close it, hook"

Poetry 

Ask us about our poems - our nonsense nursery rhymes. Hickory Dickory Dock...

Reporting

I reported on your child's school entry earlier this year when we met to discuss the School Entry Assessment. 

Since then you would have had your child's Learning Journey come home. In this you would have seen samples of your child's work, self-assessments and National Standards reporting. I hope that you enjoyed sharing this with your child. Please feel free to check in with me with any queries regarding these. Also, please send these back in to school as soon as possible so that we can add our Term 4 items.

The next part of the reporting process is for us to meet again when your child reaches  the age of 5 years and 6 months. I will be in touch with you as these dates approach for your child so that we can arrange a time to meet. For some students this may fall in the summer holidays or in the new year. In these cases we will meet at the end of this year. 

Written reports will be sent out when your child reaches 6 years old. For Room 6 this will be next year.

Transition survey

Please complete and return the transition survey that was sent out to you. We really value the feedback that will come from this survey. Thanks in advance.

Term 3 Week 10

Letter of the week:

a - "open mouth, short stick"

This week:

Wednesday - Pet day

                     -Welcome powhiri for new students

Details in the school newsletter.

Pet Day Wednesday

I liked Jesse's cat. Lachlan

I liked the rats. Elijah

I liked the rats. Harleigh

I like pet day. Riley

I liked it when a little dog jumped in my face. Kalon

I liked the rats at pet day. George

I liked it when I patted the little dogs. Lydia

I liked Mario's cat because he was so soft. Jesse

I liked Kayla's dog because it is so fluffy and cute. Isabelle

I like Mario's cat. Daisy

I liked the dogs because they are so fluffy on pet day. Amelie

I liked my cat Bonnie. Mario

I liked the puppies. Jack

I liked the little puppy. Angelo

I liked the chickens. Kobi

I liked Mario's cat because it is cute. Kayla

I liked the cat. Sophie