Room 5 Newsletter 2/05/2016
Hello
and Kia ora,
Welcome
back to term two. I hope all the children have had a good and relaxing break.
Term Two Learning Focus
Our
school wide focus continues about ‘citizenship’. We have done a reflection
today and hope to continue on the citizenship building from term one.
In
reading, children will be working in reading groups according to their
abilities. For silent reading, children will have the opportunity to choose a text
that is interesting and it will encourage each child to read daily
independently.
In
writing, we will be focusing on punctuation and how this aspect of writing can
help ourselves and the reader understand the messages we are aiming to convey.
Spelling is a very important component of writing and we will be learning the
essential spelling list words, big learning curriculum words, words that we
have misspelt in our writing and spelling under scrutiny programme.
In
Mathematics, the main topic of learning will be ‘Number’ and ‘Algebra’ we continue
learning about place value and strategies to workout addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division problems.
Rippa
rugby tournament is on Thursday the 26th of May at Albert Park. We
are entering a year 7 and 8 team. A permission slip will go home to those
children who have been selected to play. Lower Waipa 7’s tournament is on
Wednesday the 2ndh of June. Teams will be organised closer to the
day. The children look forward to this day representing our school on the
sporting field.
This
term house sports is football and netball.
Camp News
Thanks
for returning forms and making payments towards our up and coming camp. We are
looking forward to it!
Homework
Reading
Logs will continue this year. The reading logs are a great way to encourage
your child to read and record their thoughts about what they are reading. Again
we are using the maths homework books. Children are to do one page per week and
hand in on Friday. Again maths buddy will operate as a homework tool. Research
assignments will be assigned at least once a term. Information will go home
when assignment is set. Other homework tasks are set during each week.
If you
have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Thanks
Phillip
