It is great for an upset tummy.
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Monday, 13 October 2014
Term 4 Newsletter
Mahuri Term 4
Newsletter
Kia ora parents,
caregivers and children,
Term 4’s looking like
our best yet: Rongoa Māori
workshops with Enviroschools Rongoa expert Arihia Latham, Athletics day, the
school fair, kids-as-experts-workshops, swimming, a student-led Amazing Race,
walks to identify local native plants for Rongoa Maori, Zoo sleepovers,
democratic classrooms, making kawakawa balm, walk to Red Rocks, hackschooling,
school picnic, percussion jams…!
U-Learn conference
Last week Shanon and Amy
A travelled to Rotorua with six other teachers from school for the U-Learn conference. We
heard some fantastic international academics and New Zealand practitioners who
gave us lots of food for thought that has inspired us to keep developing our
teaching and learning practice.
Inquiry: Rongoa Māori
Through the context of Rongoa
Māori, we
will explore the physical and chemical changes that occur to substances when
they are mixed, heated and cooled. We’ll get hands-on, identifying and
classifying local native plants, learning about their medicinal uses, and
creating our own balms and other kinds of Rongoa Māori medicine. Enviroschools Rongoa
expert Arihia Latham will come and run workshops with us in the Learning hub to
teach us about Rongoa practices. Our reading and writing programmes will
integrate with our Inquiry learning.
Our maths focus
areas this term are Number, Problem Solving, Basic Facts, Algebra, and Statistics – probability. In physical education
we will focus on athletics and swimming.
Music:
percussion
We are running a music rotation this
term – each class will spend 2 sessions with each teacher in the team, across
the term. From rakau to sāsā to Stomp beats, we’ll be drumming and exploring
different elements of rhythm, beat, and percussion.
Parent help
If you can support our
class programme with either regular or one-off parent help, we’d love to hear
from you. Spelling testing and reading with children are particularly useful
ways to help. We always welcome parents visiting to read a favourite book or
share some knowledge or expertise; even if you’ve already read to the class,
we’d love you to come back again!
Home learning
A reminder to return
home learning books to school on Mondays. Each Monday children will
bring home a new list of ten spelling words, a maths worksheet, a peom and an
updated Reading log (if needed).
Dates this term
Tuesdays M11’s
swimming day, all term
Tuesday 21 October Rongoa
Māori
workshops
Wednesday 22 October Whole School Athletics Day at Wakefield Park
Thursday 23 October postponement day for Athletics
Day
Monday 27 October Labour Day
Saturday 1 November School Fair
Tuesday 2 December Mahuri
inquiry exhibition, 9am – 10.30am
Thursday 4 December Day walk to Red Rocks
Monday 8 December Amazing
Race
Wednesday 10 December M12 & M13’s zoo sleepover
Thursday 11 December M11 & M14’s zoo sleepover
Monday 15 December Whole School picnic
Tuesday 16 December Term 4 Junior Parent Teacher Conferences
Thursday 18 December Poroporoaki, last day of
school
Thank you for your
ongoing support. As always, if there is anything you would like to discuss regarding
your child’s learning, please get in touch to make a time to talk.
Nga mihi,
Shanon, Adele, Ximena
and Amy
Thursday, 28 August 2014
Inquiry - Balloons
Daniel working with David and Cherno.
Brief: To get Mr. Lego safely to the ground from the balcony.
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