Team 13 Newsletter

Welcome back to Term 3.

We have a jam-packed term coming up so here are a few details you will want to know.

First of all I would like to welcome Kelsi Phelps (Miss Phelps) who will be with us for 5 weeks. She is a third year student and this is her last placement before going out into the world to have her own class next year.

I would also like to welcome Toby in to our class on Thursday mornings for the next 2 terms as well. He is taking the place of Mrs B.

Slippers
The children are welcome and encouraged to bring their slippers, (or thick socks if they don't have slippers), in again this term to make sure they aren't traipsing dirt or mud into the classroom after playing outside in puddles and the muddy ground. There is a box available for them to put their slippers in.

Topic:
This term we are focusing on Science – Planet Earth and Beyond and The Arts – Music and Dance. We are looking into seasons and seasonal changes and how they affect the environment. In weeks 8 & 9 we will be having an Arts Fortnight with a whole lot of wonderful and exciting things to do with all of The Arts going on.

Maths:
For the next few weeks we will be looking at multiplication and division. At this level this covers grouping and skip counting.

Literacy:
For writing the children will be focusing on Narratives. They will be learning how to write interesting stories concentrating on plot, setting, characters, creating a problem and solving the problem. They will be learning how to make sure that their writing is interesting enough for others to want to read it by giving details, beginning to use similies and using interesting adjectives as well as continuing to use basic punctuation like capital letters and full stops and learning to use more difficult punctuation like speech marks, exclamation marks and apostrophe’s.
They will continue to focus on final diagraphs for handwriting and in their poetry, and for oral language they will be focusing on presenting their Mihi’s. Preparing them for their student led conferences later this term.

Events to calendar:
Week 4 Thursday 12th August - PTA Quiz night
Week 5 Wednesday 18th August - School Photos
- Chch Schools’ Music Festival Area Rehearsal in morning, Anne Talaska will be relieving in Room 13 while I go with the senior Choir to this.
Weeks 8 & 9 - Arts fortnight – more info to come closer to date
Week 10 Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd September – Student Led Conferences

Well that’s enough info for now. I will keep you informed if anything else comes up.

Here’s to another great term together.

Cat Kincaid

Term 3 Week 1

What have we been up to this week?

* We presented our posters of the Countries in the Soccer World Cup - Sophie

* Our new handwriting and poem focus diagraph ending sounds was 'ng' as in bang - Lily

* We sang the 2 songs to welcome the new people to the school (the Powhiri) - Max

* The new star child is Sophie this week - Sophie

* We have welcomed Miss Phelps into our class for the next 5 weeks - Renee

* We have rearranged our tables and have new groups and new names - Charlotte

* Maths groups have changed around - Hugo

* We finished our SMARTS on the Soccer World Cup this week - Max

* We have started our Mihi's so we can have them ready for our Student Led Conferences in week 10 this term - Larissa

* We discovered what SMARTs we are strong in and what SMARTs we need to develop - Max

* We now have Toby coming in for Miss Kincaid on Thursday's instead of Mrs B - Bella

* Spain won the Soccer World Cup 2010 - Xavier

* We changed the data projector monitors for the term and it is now Lily and Charlotte - Hugo

Ferrymead

From Ferrymead 2010

Teams 12, 13 and 14 went to Ferrymead. Check out our clothes.

Great to see the Cultural Posters by Reuben's Mum

Hi Team 13,

I have been looking at the cultural posters posted on the website and they look fantastic! You have all worked well putting together the information about your culture. All your smiling faces look beautiful.

Today is the last day of term and it must be nice to have two weeks on holiday before starting the third term. Reuben is going to work on his handwriting over the holidays, and his maths. So we will be ready for term three. While on holiday we will head over the Lake Brunner on the west coast for a few days too - hopefully we won't get snowed in!

I will blog again next term,
Kind regards
Vanessa Anderson (Reuben's Mum)