Week 9

Literacy
This week we are reading the big book Roy G Biv and a poem called The Rainbow. We are learning all about the colours of the rainbow. Ask us to tell you what they are. For an extra challenge we can even say the colour words in Maori!
Our letters this week are z, f, q and j
Our words this week are 'go' and 'going'

Maths
We are continuing to build our knowledge of numbers to 20 and learning different ways to add sets of objects. With Mrs Brough we will be learning about times of the day. Can you answer these questions?

What is your bedtime?
When do you get up?
When do you brush your teeth?
What time does your family eat dinner?
What time to you leave for school?

Library Books
Please remember our library day is Thursday. Lets see if the whole class can remember to bring their books back this week.

Week 8

Literacy
We are all making great progress with learning our alphabet letters and sounds and with reading our high frequency words. Now we are making connections and applying our learning to further our reading and writing skills. Come and have a look at our writing books, we are becoming amazing authors!

Maths
This week we are continuing to focus on recognising and sequencing numbers up to and back from 20. We are learning to play the game ZAP! Ask us to teach you, it would be great practice to play this with the family.


20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...



P.E
We are continuing to swim on a Tuesday and Wednesday but we are keeping an eye on the weather as it is starting to cool down. Please let me know if your child is finding it too cold to continue.
We have the bikes booked again for Friday. It is great to see how confident the children are becoming on the track. We are working with those children who are still learning to ride a bike during this time and it is so exciting to see their successes. If your child prefers to ride their own bike you are welcome to send this along.

Week 7

                                           
WELCOME
This week we welcomed Molly to T4! We hope you have a great first week at school Molly :)

Welcome to our Learning Assistant Kim who will be with us and T2 Monday - Thursday mornings

Welcome also to Yvonne Carlton from Massey University who will be with us for 4 weeks
                                                           
READING
We continuing to talk about the pictures and predict the story. We are getting really good at recognising some of the magenta words in our books. Remember to keep practicing these at home. 


WRITING
We can draw a picture plan and are learning to independently hear and record some  of the sounds we can here in our story.
This week we are learning to write the words 'the' and 'my'
Our letters are u, b, h, r


MATHS
This week we are continuing to focus on number identification as well as looking at before and after numbers.
                                        
INQUIRY
Groups we belong to in the community.  Do you belong to a team, club or group of some kind?

BIKES
We are booked in to use the school bikes and bike track on Friday. There are small bikes for our children to use but if your child would be more comfortable riding their own bike please bring this in on Friday. 

REMINDERS :
Togs on Tuesday,Wednesday 
Gala on Saturday!
Bikes of Friday - PLEASE REMEMBER SHOES







                
                                      
                        
                                                               

Week 6

Welcome to school Lace, it is great to have you with us!

Writing
This week we have started writing in our writing books.
We are learning to:
* draw a picture plan to help us generate ideas to write about
* start in the correct place
* write left to right
* write the words 'I' and 'am'

We are doing well with learning the magenta word list. This week we will be focusing on the words 'to' and 'is' in class

Reading
We hope you are enjoying hearing us read to you each night. We are all getting very good at pointing to the words. This week we are looking for some words we know from our word list and identifying the initial sound in some words. We enjoy looking through the pictures before reading and this helps us to predict what the words might say.

Maths
We are focussing on recognising, writing and sequencing numbers this week. We love this you tube video for helping us to count backward from 20: