Room 6 Newsletter Term 1 2014
Dear Parents and Caregivers
Welcome
to Room 6 for 2014.
The
school theme for Term 1 is “Cool
Literacy Learning” where we will be focussing on developing and using new
vocabulary. We are also integrating the
Cool Schools Mediation programme into our weekly lessons where we will learn
about dispute resolution and peer mediation.
In
Room 6 we also start the year with Cybersafety where we will be learning to be
responsible digital citizens. We
currently have 18 windows based devices in the classroom and I will be
welcoming some new technology as the year progresses.
There
will be a strong focus on literacy and numeracy this term as well as formal
testing such as PATs and Probe.
The
‘Habits’ that we will be focusing on this term are Finding Humour, Listening with Empathy and Applying Past Knowledge to
New Situations.
Dates
of upcoming events and children’s learning will be posted on the class blog - http://room06haumoana2014.blogspot.co.nz
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Stationery
The stationery list
is out today. If your child has their
‘Writer’s Notebook’, ‘Maths Knowledge’ book and/or ‘Te Reo’ book at home please
return these to school and delete the 3x 1B5s on the stationery list.
Camp
Camp
is taking place in Week 9 of Term 1 at the Guthrie Smith Centre near Lake
Tutira. Cost is still being finalised
but will be around $160 per child. More
detailed newsletters and requests for parent help will be out shortly.
Homework
Homework
will consist of:
Reading
– daily – to be recorded in the Reading Log.
Spelling
– weekly – 10 words either topic or level based or from their writing.
Maths –
number knowledge from the School Number Ladder.
There
will be additional activities at times throughout the year which will be
itemised in their homework book. Please
check and sign this daily.
Communication
is important to me and if you have any concerns or queries, email me or pop
into class to arrange a time for discussion.
Regards
David Barclay
david@haumoana.school.nz
