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