Welcome back to Term 3. We hope you have all had a restful holiday and enjoyed some family time. We are looking forward to another busy term. This term is our Arts term so watch out around the school for plenty of dance, drama and other performing arts.
Classroom Release
On Thursday Room 19 have PE with Mr Lukes from 9-10.30am.
Staffing
On Friday Mrs O and Mrs Campbell will both be released to work with Pam Hook as part of our Mathematics Inquiry group.
Parent Help
A notice will be coming home later in the week with new times and days for those wanting to parent help this term. Parent help will start from Week 2.
A huge thank you to all those who helped last term - the children really look forward to you coming in each week and we certainly appreciate all your help.
Reading
This week will be a bit of a mixture. Due to the large number of children away at the end of term we are going to share our plays this week for reading. If your child does not have a reading book to bring home, please enjoy reading some old favourites from home, or some library books instead. Don't forget we also have a number of great literacy games linked on our blog that you can enjoy together.
Warm Weather Gear
Please remember to pack a warm jacket each day in case of emergencies and/or wet weather. We encourage the children to keep these hung up under their bags on the bottom hook but please help remind them to take them home each night as many were left behind last term and we would hate for them to go missing overnight.
There was also a pair of black gumboots left in class for most of last term. None of the children have claimed them - if you are missing some please let us know!
Circle Time
Last term we began running a weekly circle time in class. This is a great opportunity to come together, make connections with each other and share things about ourselves as well as playing some cooperative games. We have also been exploring a range of different feelings and it has been great to see the children opening up and sharing their wonderful ideas. Circle time is also a good time to explore issues that are bothering the children and work out possible solutions. We also have a puppet Tom who helps us role play different situations. Usually we run circle time at the end of the day on a Friday.
Could we please ask that parents refrain from popping in while this is underway as we are really working on getting the children to open up and for some children the extra attention is a bit overwhelming. If you see us all sitting on chairs on a big circle - then you'll know we are doing circle time. Sometimes we slot it in on other days if we have time as the children really love it and we are seeing some positive problem solving and resilience building up within the children already. But please feel free to ask your child about circle time - they'll definitely have their favourite parts to share with you!
Spelling
This term we are looking at starting a weekly spelling programme with each child having 3-5 words to practice over the week. These will be individualised for each child. Watch out for the small notebooks coming home at the end of the week - there will be more information for you inside the front cover. Words will come home on a Friday and the children will need to return their notebooks to school for testing on a Thursday.
You can practice these any way you like - writing them, spelling them out loud, making them out of magnets, writing them in chalk outside, tracing them with your finger in shaving foam, making them out of play dough, etc. You can also use spare pages in the notebook to practise them if you wish.
Library Day Fridays - please return books before Friday to the class library containers.
Lunchtime Clubs
French club - Mondays 12.30pm (with lunch)
Craft club - Tuesdays 12.45pm
Art club - Thursdays 12.45pm
Have a great week :)
No comments:
Post a Comment