WEEK FOUR, LEARNING GALOUR!

This week in Tūhura we have put a lot of thought into how our maths and literacy programs are going to look this term. Because of the nature of our team and the boy to girl ratio we have made it our goal to provide the students with engaging, stimulating, hands on activities. We believe this will also help to support our year three children to transition from play based learning into a more structured learning environment. The students have responded well to this style of learning and we see a lot of enjoyment while students are completing their work. 

This week we have also observed the students working and tested them to make sure they are in the correct learning groups. This means that we will be able to make the learning suited to your child's needs and provide them with interesting and challenging work.

During our literacy time we will run learning stations where students rotate around literacy activities. This allows us to take our smaller reading groups and give your child that one on one time. In week five your children will be sent home reading books. Our numeracy plan will also look similar to this. Below are some photos of our literacy stations on action.

This year the children have decided to display their class treaty in the classroom by each selecting a sea creature which they have decorated to be stuck on the wall. The main ideas that the children wanted to focus on in the treaty are; 

We will also extended this further into the concept of Kaitiakitanga which means guardianship and protection.

IN WEEK 4:

• Wednesday: Sushi (order this through Kindo)
• Friday: Sausage sizzle?
• Please bring swimming togs each day
• Please bring in an empty jar for students to store their tokens in
• Please name all sun-hats and uniform. We already have a number of unnamed clothes that we cannot return to their owner.

PLEASE WE ASK THAT NO CHILDREN BRING POKE'MAN CARDS TO SCHOOL.

Our cancelled Parents even is now going ahead this coming Tuesday.

Ngā mihi nui

Paula, Holly and Lynn