Week 8

Kia ora Whanau,

Only two weeks left of school!! How exciting!!

We have a lot of things to do within that time, a lot of testing is happening, and a lot of things need finishing off.

The children are very excited to hear some news about camp and I would like to reassure you that there will be information coming out about camp very soon, we are just getting the last of the details finalised.
You are able to begin making payments to the school to cover the cost of camp, which will be $190.00, and if you need the details for these again I can forward this to you (they were included in the last email).

This week we have poetic writing, Matariki activities and our Literature Circles as our main learning activities.
Our whole school Matariki celebration is next Thursday and Room 12 would love for you to come along and see all of the things that we have been learning about Matariki.

Room 13 and our class are currently making the transition into making our learning space into a Modern Learning Environment which will mean that the students have more choice in their learning, they have more opportunities to learn new skills and they become more independent in challenging themselves. Please feel free to come in and watch our class evolve into this new learning style.

I would just like to send out another thank you to everyone for your support throughout these past two terms. It has been a blast.
I would also like to re-iterate that if you would like me to be doing anything extra with your child with regard to their learning, please can you let me know. This could be setting extra home learning, creating differentiated activities for them in class etc.
Their home learning currently consists of their novel studies reading + activities and at any opportunity, working on set tasks on Mathletics or Khan Academy. This week I will be setting an extra task for the children to complete.

Thank you for your time and please feel free to email me if you have any concerns.
I hope you have all had a great term.

Miss McKenzie