Team 13 Newsletter

Hi there

Welcome to Team 13's next class Newsletter.

Events to calendar:
Week 4 Thursday 12th August - PTA Quiz night
Week 5 Tuesday 17th August - Book Character Dress up
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.
Thursday 19th August - Snuggle up and read. Bring your PJ's and favourite toy to school and even your favourite bedtime story.
Weeks 8 & 9 - Arts fortnight – more info to come closer to date
Week 10 Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd September – Student Led Conferences

Week Four
This week is ‘Maths Week’. This will be a great opportunity to set up some fun maths challenges at home. We will be doing the online competitions that your child can do at home as well by going to http://mathsweek.org.nz/ and either register themselves or they can use our classroom registration, username Team 13, password 13.


Book Week
Next week is book week. We will be doing a lot of fun things that will compliment our usual school programme. Not the least will be some fun dress up days. On Tuesday the children are to dress up as their favourite book character and there will be a parade at 9.00 for all to see each other, but only for those who want to take part. This is not compulsory. We will also be doing other activities like stop, drop and read, buddy class reading, reading around the world (read stories from around the world), fractured fairy tales, Teacher read around (teachers visiting other classes to read a story), and snuggle up and read (children dress up in pj's bring their favourite toy and read stories (there may even be hot milo served - yummy!)). We will also have some guest Authors come and visit to talk to the children as well as many other great activities.
During this week the normal classroom programme will be a bit topsy turvy but the learning will be full on and inspiring.
Reading: This will run as normal and the children will continue to have a book to read every night. Maybe you can make sure that you read a story with them every night too. You could even try to include "Food from a book" lunch, include something in their lunch that appears in a story.
Maths: We will be learning to read and write number stories.
Written Language: We will be writing some interesting and fun fractured fairy tales of our own.
Oral Language: We will be promoting books to our buddy class (Room 7). They will have one minute to promote their favourite. It would be great if you can help them with this too if you have time. Once you have read a book together you can talk about what the book was about and help them retell it to try and inspire the listeners to want to read it themselves.


Grandparents Afternoon Monday 16th August - 2.15-3pm: (The children will be sending home an invitation this week.) If your child’s Grandparent/s is unable to come then they might like to bring a special friend or other family member. Can the Grandparent or friend please bring a picture book to share and read.

On Wednesday 18th August we are having our school, class and individual photos. We are scheduled to have ours at 1.30pm. If you would like to come at lunch time to make sure that they are clean and tidy you are more than welcome.

And finally the children have been so enthusiastic about using whiteboards in class that they have gone through all their whiteboard markers. If you are able to supply some or bring money to school to purchase another couple per child that would be very much appreciated as they are keen to get back to using these wonderful resources.

Please remember there will be a school fair in the library. The library will be open before and after school to purchase any items.

Have a fantastic Book Week, I know we will!

Cat Kincaid