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Thank you to everyone who came along to our Learning Discussions on Wednesday. It was really great to be able to discuss your child’s learning and next steps for learning with you.

Literacy - Our phonics sounds for the week are m and d and our learning goal is to sound and blend CVC, 3 letter words using s a t p i n m d. We are basing our story writing on Jack and the Beanstalk. Our goal is to record a sentence that makes sense with a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.

Maths - We are developing our number knowledge this week with one group focusing on 1-10 and the other group 11-20 with a particular focus on the concept of before numbers. We practise counting backwards and develop the understanding that before, one less and take away one are the same.

• The children are loving our Fairytale Unit of work and seeing their published stories up in the classroom.

• Cross country training is up and running and the challenge is to run a bit further each day.

• I will be out of the classroom on two days this week and Debbie Forrest will be teaching Room 1.

Week 3 is here! I will be back on Tuesday and look forward to seeing Room 2 and hearing about everything they have been up to!

Literacy: This week our fairy tale will be Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We are going to taste some porridge just like Goldilocks did and use this as our motivation for writing. In phonics this week we will have a focus on the /ll/ and /ss/ digraphs.

Maths: Last Term we started using dot talks as a warm up for our maths lessons. This has been a great way to start our maths lessons as we are learning to explain our mathematical thinking and acknowledge the opinions of our classmates. We have finished our short probability unit and will be starting place value this week.

Reminders:

• Please remember your homework book and book bag everyday

• A change of clothes and water bottle for our cross country training

Please do not hesitate to contact me via Seesaw or email zwebb@tearohaprimary.school.nz. Have a great week!

Kia ora koutou,

Welcome to Week 3. We have moved back into Room 3 and the children were such awesome helpers! We are slowly getting organised but it is great to be back in our own space.

Thank you so much to the whānau who came along to the Learning discussions last Wednesday. I really enjoyed meeting and chatting with you all.

Literacy: We continue with our recrafting and publishing this week in writing. Room 3 are focusing on using the letter sounds they learn in reading and transfer this new knowledge into their writing.

Maths: It is Maths and Money week this week and we will practise recognising New Zealand currency and looking at different ways to make the same amount. For example: Making up $10 in various ways. We will also be continuing on with our fraction unit and counting collection activities.

Reminders for the week:

• A change of clothes and a drink bottle for cross country training.

• We have a number of Poem books that have not made their way back to school. Could you please send them along this week.

• Please remember your homework books and book bags everyday!

Please don’t hesitate to contact me via Seesaw or email mswan@tearohaprimary.school.nz

Have an awesome week😊

Have a great week whānau!

Welcome to Acacia-Maree and Rawinia who have joined Room 6 and TAPS last week. It’s great to have you here.

We have been enjoying having moments of watching New Zealander’s compete at the Commonwealth Games in a range of sports, especially watching the medal ceremonies and celebrating with the NZ team.

This week in Maths we are learning to solve a range of problems involving fractions.

Our writing will be about whether Cats or Dogs are better, persuasive writing. In this writing we need to make sure we have some pretty good reasons why we are cat or dog lovers.

We will be reading about Unicycles and Football this week as sports in NZ.

Thank you so much to all of those who were able to attend your child's Learning Conference. If you were unable to make it please let me know if you would like a new time. kbankier@tearohaprimary.school.nz

Thanks to those of you who were able to come along last week. Was good to catch up and learn that the great majority are not in favour of homework!

This week we will be getting into problem solving in Maths. Using mixed ability groupings, this will be a chance for everyone to add their expertise. We will focus on explaining how we solved problems as well as being able to retell how someone else did.

In Spelling we are looking at beginning blends. Blends will have 2 letters which make 2 sounds eg bl, which doffer froma diagraph where 2 letters make 1 sound eg wh.

We will finish off our Commonwealth Games work which the children have enjoyed - and learnt so much!! Thanks so much to all the families who got in behind this and helped with finding facts and sending things along. The children rewatched NZ get a Gold Medal in squash and it was so lovely when they all automatically stood up for the National Anthem!!! They have enjoyed celebrating the successes of our small nation.

Kia ora whānau and families.

Last week the students were able to show their skills in a number of ways. I was very impressed in Writing where they were able to instruct each other through procedural writing. This week we move on from this, through to persuasive writing and also building our oral language through small debating sessions. I believe Room 8 will enjoy it immensely. This helps to compliment their homework on speech writing.

Maths is based around fractions. The students have shown already how amazing they are at figuring out fraction problems so I look forward to challenging them some more through whole class, small group and individual problems and learning through games too.

Topic Inquiry this term is looking into the Physical World of Forces. Not only are we having a fun time learning through hands-on activities, we will learn through reading text and answering questions too. I hope the students have shared their knowledge of Rube Goldberg machines we looked at last week and were able to give you a home demonstration using different forces for movement.

Cross Country training is going super well. Some students are truly thriving and take every opportunity to beat their previous times. Ka pai! This week the course changes slightly and students will be running through the farm so a change of clothes is a must please. It is expected they run everyday unless a message from home is received.

It was so wonderful to meet you all last week during student learning interviews. Thank you for taking the time to come in and chat. Please know, I am always happy to meet you again to discuss your child's learning again.

Looking forward to another wonderful week of learning team. Mrs McKenzie cmckenzie@tearohaprimary.school.nz

Kia Ora Koutou, welcome to week 3!

What a busy term we have had so far, cross country training, totara springs practice, cook island week and parent teacher interviews. A quick thank you to all those who took the time to see us last week. We very much enjoyed our learning discussions and it was great to meet you all - old faces and new!

Maths - This week we will be focusing on temperature, looking closely at negative numbers and integers. We will also be developing our problem solving skills by tackling word problems using fractions, decimals and percentages.

Reading - This week we will be focusing our reading on the novel “The Lion above the door” by Onjali Q. Ráuf. Room 9 will be completing a variety of activities based around this novel, chapter by chapter.

Writing - speeches are upon us! Therefore, for writing this week we will be looking at persuasive writing. We will watch videos of inspirational speeches made by people across the world, as well as develop our understanding of the structure and language within a successful persuasive speech/writing.

Reminders:

Cross country - we have been super impressed with the commitment to trainings so far. Remember to keep bringing a spare change of clothes and a drink bottle.

Speeches - hopefully by now you have begun to think about your topic for speeches. Remember that these are to be written at home. You will, however get some time during class to work on these. Tip - can’t think of a topic? Pick something you are passionate about OR love. That way, it won’t feel like you are doing a ‘speech’.

Here’s to another awesome week!

Whaea Armstrong and Mrs Gamble

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