Week 5

Kia ora whanau,

My apologies for the lack of a Week Four update. I was curled up in bed for the week with a horrendous double ear infection and the children had Pip Day teaching them for the week. I am on the mend now so fingers crossed this week is a healthier one!

We have had a very busy past four weeks, starting and finishing new topics and now trying to start a fresh bunch. I cannot believe it is already Week 5! Time flies when you’re having fun :)

This week we are starting three new learning areas:

Reading - we are beginning a new novel study with the Room 12 students guiding the Room 13 through the Literature Circle cycle. The children are excited to start this again and it thrills me to hear that they enjoyed the Novel studies last term. The books will not be coming home at this stage, the children will be doing the majority of their reading and activities at school but we will resort to taking them home towards the end of the term if need be.

Writing - we are also beginning our speeches unit which the children will be given the task to write an independent speech around our Resilience Topic. I have attached the criteria for the Inter schools Speech Competition if your child is interested in entering. This competition is not compulsory but your child may be interested in linking their resilience topic to one of the competitions themes and entering.

Topic - we are starting a new web based researched programme around Resilience which Teressa has put together. This work will be useful for speech writing.

This week there is also the Rock da House evening on Wednesday night which will be great fun!

Home learning is based around summarising this week. The children are to go online to complete an interactive activity and then complete the summarising activity that is on their home learning sheet. If your child is not able to get onto the computer at home please let me know as I can find time for them to come in a work on it at school to ensure they are up go date.

There are a lot of bugs and yucky things going around at the moment so I hope that you are all keeping well. Please do let me know if your child will be sick for a longer than expected period of time so that I can accommodate for this and set tasks that they could be doing at home.

I hope you all have a great week.

Nga mihi nui