Hi there all
There is lots of items to catch up on this week.
Topsy Turvy Tuesday
Children are able to come dressed in theme for this mufti day, it is a gold coin donation. Ideas might include; pj's, back to front, inside out, costumes, dress ups
Swimming notice
This will be coming home tomorrow. Swimming is for 9 sessions over two weeks. Our time is 1:30 - 2, this will mean leaving school at 1:00 and returning by 2:30. Hope you can help out as parent help for transport is vital. This year, as a way of supporting those that can provide transport, you will recieve $1 for each child you transport.
Farewell Assembly for Rob
This will be on in the hall from 10- 10:30 on Friday, we would love you to come along if you can.
Shared Lunch for Rob
Please join us on Friday for lunch with Rob in Team 20, 12:30 on. Can you please provide a small plate to share for lunch even if you are not able to make it?
Science
Andrew Carswell, Jasmine's Dad is coming in to work with the class on Friday from 11 - 12:30. This will follow on from themes that we have been exploring this year. Thanks Andrew.
Photos and Calendars
These orders are due in this week, please drop the money off to the office in an envelope with your child's name and room number on it. Cards and calendars are $12.
Visiting Burnham to Deliver Rob
We are still pressing ahead with plans for this visit to Burnham School to 'hand over' Rob to his new school. A small complication has arisen in that the powhiri will need to start at 9:15. We will need to meet at school and be ready to leave at 8:30am on the first day of term 4. Please email if you are able to help out. I am not sure that I wrote down all the names of people that have spoken with me about it. We will spend some time after the powhiri getting to know the Year 2 class ar Burnham. We will leave to return to school at 11:30am.
Thanks to you all for your support over the term, it is very sad that Rob is leaving us and I am sure you will miss him, but none more than me! I am so lucky to have been able to teach with Rob over the last 3 years. We work so well as a team and I have learned s a great deal from working with him. Thankfully our friendship extends our collegial relationship and his family and mine will remain closely linked. I will be able to provide the updates!
See you in Team 20.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Quick Catch Up
What an exciting week!
School Photos
Please have your child spruced up and ready to go in the morning for our class and individual photos. Ours is just before morning tea so hopefully they will stay looking good!
NZ Army Band
Thanks to Kirsten, Ange and Lynne who will be joining us on our trip to the Town Hall on Tuesday to see the Army Band. We leave school at 9:45am and will be back by lunchtime.
Student Led Conferences
Apologies of your time never made it home but I will attach with this email and also put a copy on the blog. This is a time for the children to guide you through their learning. There will be 2 - 4 conferences happenign simultaneously. We will start off together and then the children will go at their own pace. Rob and I will be available throughout the 30minutes to answer any questions and offer support if necessary.
Energise Me
Our topic will continue through to the end of the term looking at the human body and keeping healthy. We will use this as the basis for an inquiry next term.
Village22 Inquiry
This class is aiming to feed hungry children by encouraging the class to log on and use the webiste www.freerice.com Check it out and we will be using it for homework next week.
Rob and Burnham School
On the very first day of Term 4 I would love us to take Rob to Burnham School and dleiver him as a treasure - taonga to them. It would be a half day trip and the opportunity for the children to be part of a Powhiri at Burnham School as they welcome Rob and Fendalton School to their place. We have been learning about Maori welcomes and Mihi and would love to use these in context. Please let me know if you would be keen to come and provide transport for this excursion.
Claire Howison
Class Teacher
Junior Team Leader
Team 20
Fendalton School
t: +64 3 351 9788 x809
e: claire.howison@fendalton.school.nz
w: www.fendalton.school.nz/20
School Photos
Please have your child spruced up and ready to go in the morning for our class and individual photos. Ours is just before morning tea so hopefully they will stay looking good!
NZ Army Band
Thanks to Kirsten, Ange and Lynne who will be joining us on our trip to the Town Hall on Tuesday to see the Army Band. We leave school at 9:45am and will be back by lunchtime.
Student Led Conferences
Apologies of your time never made it home but I will attach with this email and also put a copy on the blog. This is a time for the children to guide you through their learning. There will be 2 - 4 conferences happenign simultaneously. We will start off together and then the children will go at their own pace. Rob and I will be available throughout the 30minutes to answer any questions and offer support if necessary.
Energise Me
Our topic will continue through to the end of the term looking at the human body and keeping healthy. We will use this as the basis for an inquiry next term.
Village22 Inquiry
This class is aiming to feed hungry children by encouraging the class to log on and use the webiste www.freerice.com Check it out and we will be using it for homework next week.
Rob and Burnham School
On the very first day of Term 4 I would love us to take Rob to Burnham School and dleiver him as a treasure - taonga to them. It would be a half day trip and the opportunity for the children to be part of a Powhiri at Burnham School as they welcome Rob and Fendalton School to their place. We have been learning about Maori welcomes and Mihi and would love to use these in context. Please let me know if you would be keen to come and provide transport for this excursion.
Claire Howison
Class Teacher
Junior Team Leader
Team 20
Fendalton School
t: +64 3 351 9788 x809
e: claire.howison@fendalton.school.nz
w: www.fendalton.school.nz/20
Friday, July 17, 2009
Welcome to Term 3
Thank you and welcome...
Wow, we can't believe that the year is already half way through. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support this through the year. The children (and parents) of Team 20 are gorgeous, and we feel very lucky to be working with such a responsive group of learners. We would also like to welcome Holly Alloway and her family to Team 20. They have shifted to Christchurch from Wellington over the holiday break.
Energise Me ...
Term 3 will start with a new inquiry getting underway. It is called 'Energise Me'. We will be using this umbrella idea to think about;our basic needs, keeping healthy, having balance in your life, eating and exercise, the human body, keeping warm and being ready to learn. Thank you to those of you that have sent in resources to support these ideas. If you have ideas or resource people we can access please let us know.
Literacy and Numeracy...
Our literacy focus will be based around transactional texts this term. This means writing recipes, instructions and more factual forms of writing. Look out for a cooking roster later in the term when we put our writing into action! Numeracy will be centred around the ideas of multiplication and division. However at the Stage 3 - 5 level that means ensuring the children have a good understanding of grouping sets, repeated addition and skip counting. This will form the foundations that they need to understand the concepts of multiplication and division. We will be beavering away at developing fast recall of addition and subtraction facts as well.
Arts and PE...
Our PE focus will move to large ball skills at the beginning of the term and then by the end of the term we will start to think about athletics as summer is around the corner. We will continue with an arts rotation on Wednesday afternoons. The children will spend two weeks exploring dance, drama and visual arts through the lens of the 'Energise Me' study. The Junior are mixed into 3 large groups and will work with pairs of teachers for two weeks on each discipline.
Around the middle of the term the children will be sharing their learning with you in our Student Led Conference Sessions.
Trips and Visits...
We have 3 trips planned for this term and will need some parent help on each of these visits. In Week 2 we head to the Ngaio Marsh Theatre to watch the senior school's Wearable Arts Extravaganza. In Week 6 we are going to the museum to work with educators and experience the human body exhibit. We will be using private cars for this visit. In Week 8 we will be going to the Town Hall to see the NZ Army Band!
We hope you all had a wonderful and restful break and were able to keep the bugs at bay. People seem to be very cautious and are keeping low if family members are showing symptoms of sickness. This is probably quite wise.
Looking forward to a fun-filled, busy term with you all.
Kind Regards
Claire and Rob
Wow, we can't believe that the year is already half way through. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support this through the year. The children (and parents) of Team 20 are gorgeous, and we feel very lucky to be working with such a responsive group of learners. We would also like to welcome Holly Alloway and her family to Team 20. They have shifted to Christchurch from Wellington over the holiday break.
Energise Me ...
Term 3 will start with a new inquiry getting underway. It is called 'Energise Me'. We will be using this umbrella idea to think about;our basic needs, keeping healthy, having balance in your life, eating and exercise, the human body, keeping warm and being ready to learn. Thank you to those of you that have sent in resources to support these ideas. If you have ideas or resource people we can access please let us know.
Literacy and Numeracy...
Our literacy focus will be based around transactional texts this term. This means writing recipes, instructions and more factual forms of writing. Look out for a cooking roster later in the term when we put our writing into action! Numeracy will be centred around the ideas of multiplication and division. However at the Stage 3 - 5 level that means ensuring the children have a good understanding of grouping sets, repeated addition and skip counting. This will form the foundations that they need to understand the concepts of multiplication and division. We will be beavering away at developing fast recall of addition and subtraction facts as well.
Arts and PE...
Our PE focus will move to large ball skills at the beginning of the term and then by the end of the term we will start to think about athletics as summer is around the corner. We will continue with an arts rotation on Wednesday afternoons. The children will spend two weeks exploring dance, drama and visual arts through the lens of the 'Energise Me' study. The Junior are mixed into 3 large groups and will work with pairs of teachers for two weeks on each discipline.
Around the middle of the term the children will be sharing their learning with you in our Student Led Conference Sessions.
Trips and Visits...
We have 3 trips planned for this term and will need some parent help on each of these visits. In Week 2 we head to the Ngaio Marsh Theatre to watch the senior school's Wearable Arts Extravaganza. In Week 6 we are going to the museum to work with educators and experience the human body exhibit. We will be using private cars for this visit. In Week 8 we will be going to the Town Hall to see the NZ Army Band!
We hope you all had a wonderful and restful break and were able to keep the bugs at bay. People seem to be very cautious and are keeping low if family members are showing symptoms of sickness. This is probably quite wise.
Looking forward to a fun-filled, busy term with you all.
Kind Regards
Claire and Rob
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