week 4 Term 2 2022

Pink Shirt day was a huge success and a whole lot of fun - thanks for your support. We are continuing to talk to our kids about our school values AND how to identify and manage our emotions. It is really lovely seeing how the kids are responding to these messages. The support and encouragement that they are giving to each other is so valuable and absolutely beautiful to witness. I am so very proud of my little Room 14 CREW.

Cross Country

A huge thank you to everyone who has filled in the form. Knowing what everyone is doing and where they are meant to be makes my job much easier and limits the stress on the kids and I.  We appreciate it.  Here is the link again - for anyone who still needs it Cross Country Form 

WE HAVE LIBRARY ON MONDAY

This Week's Learning

Maths - We are exploring multiplication. We are looking at how skip counting, repeated addition and/or using our knowledge of tens and ones can make multiplication easier. 

Literacy - We are looking at how our learning in Structured Literacy can be applied in reading and writing. We will also be playing around with some new vocabulary to make our writing more interesting.

Religious Ed - We are learning about Jesus Ascension into Heaven. There is a special liturgy on Wednesday (run by Totara team).

Project Based Learning - we have a visitor coming from the Rotorua Astronomical Society, this week. He is going to talk to us about the Matariki stars, legends and seasons. 

Week 5 - Samoan Language Week

2 June = y4-6 Cross Country 

 

Week 6

6 June = Queen’s Birthday

7 June = Teacher Only Day

 

Week 7

16 June = Matariki Liturgy (Kahikatea)

 

Week 8

24 June = Matariki Day Holiday

A few shots of Pink Shirt Day in Room 14. These kids!

There's never a dull moment in Room 14.

 Thanks for the face paint, Carlos.

WEEK 3 TERM 2 2022

 A big thank you to everyone for your support and patience while I have been at home with covid - I guess we'll all get a dose eventually but we'll be doing everything we can to delay that as much as possible.  Masks, hand sanitising and cleaning surfaces continue to be part of our daily routine. It's quite amazing how different the symptoms are from person to person so if in doubt, please test. I had no symptoms during the day but at home felt a slight chill so decided to test just in case. I was 97% sure that it would be negative. Thank goodness our wonderful Mrs Kusabs was able to jump in. 

A few reminders:

 Cross Country 2022

On Thursday 2nd June we will be holding our annual Cross Country for Year 4-6 in the Redwoods. 

Cross Country form

Please, if you haven't yet filled out the cross country form you need to even if your child isn't planning to take part. At this stage only 14/26 of our Room 14 families have completed this info. 

School Photos

School photos are scheduled for tomorrow. Please make sure your children are tidy and that hair is tied back. Would you also please check that school jerseys are named so if students need to take off their jerseys they won’t get mixed up. 

Structured Literacy Parent Information Meeting. 

Are you curious about the new approach to spelling and reading taking place at school? You may have learnt a little about this at your parent conference this week. 

Come along and learn about the structured literacy approach, what this means for your child and how you can support their learning at home.

Our consultant, Marion Kirby from Learning Matters will give you a brief overview of how the brain learns to read - you may learn a thing or two yourself!

See you upstairs in the Staffroom at 3.15 pm Wednesday the 18th of May. Tea, Coffee and snacks provided. 

School singing

Singing is to start again on Thursday at 12.15 pm.  Please ensure children in Years 4 to 6 are wearing masks 

Who Wants To Be Principal For The Day?

This Weeks Learning

Literacy: Narrative writing - we are going to have a real focus on sentence structure and the introduction of paragraphs and dialog.

Numeracy: Reading a map, times tables 2, 5, 10, Telling the time

Religious Education: We are learning-

1.To recognize how holiness and wholeness are connected. 2.That Jesus calls us to holiness and wholeness in the story of the Good Samaritan

Important Dates:

Week 3 - Bully Free NZ Week

16 May = School Photos

19 May = Singing, Kapa haka 

20 May = Pink Shirt Day (you are welcome to wear a pink t-shirt over your uniform)

 

Week 5 - Samoan Language Week

2 June = Y4-6 Cross Country -Cross Country form

Week 6

6 June = Queen’s Birthday

7 June = Teacher Only Day - If you require child care they can contact Maryanne Rolling on 0211 215599. 

 

Week 7

16 June = Matariki Liturgy (Kahikatea)

 

Week 8

24 June = Matariki Day Holiday😊

Week 9

Week 10

Week 1 Term 2 2022

 Welcome Back

It has been a busy holiday and I am excited about all of the learning we have planned for this term. Our wonderful caretaker and his incredible team have been hard at work and the school looks amazing - big thanks to Richard, Deb and Ray. Room 14 now has some gorgeous new carpet BUT the timing didn’t work in my favour and most of our classroom is still stacked up in the hall. Guess what we’re doing on Monday morning?  

Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences

Tuesday 10 May 3.15 - 6.45pm Wednesday 11 May 3.15 - 5.35pm

Bookings are now open. Families can choose the day that will work best for them. Students and their parent(s) need to attend a 10 minute appointment on one of these two days. There are a number of ways bookings can be made. 

Either:

 1) Go to the School App and then the Links section then School Interviews. Enter the code akwma

 2)  Go to www.school interviews.co.nz and enter the event code akwm

Mother’s Day

Next Sunday is Mother’s Day and the PTA is running a Gift Store for the children to buy their treasures for their mums.

Reminders:

• School starts at 8.45 am for all students. There will not be staff at the gates in the morning and students will be permitted to come into school as they arrive. We do ask that you drop your child off at a reasonable time - when the kids are in the room we like to give them our full attention so 8-8:30am is often the only time we have to set up the learning for the day and catch up on paperwork.

• School finishes at 3.00 pm for all students except bus students who will leave their classrooms at 2.50 pm.

• Students are to sanitise their hands as they come through the school gates and, yes, we are still wearing masks.

• If your child is late to school they must report to the office before they go to class.

• If your child needs to isolate because they have Covid they must isolate for 7 days, effectively 5 days of school. There will no longer be a Home Learning programme offered to students who are absent. Children should just focus on getting well.

• Winter uniform is to be worn. We do appreciate that some uniform items are unavailable at the moment.

• Charge your Chromebooks! We will be using them this week. A few people got caught out last term.

• Don't forget to fill in your reading log - we want that class treat so we need every single reading log to be handed in.

 

Save the Date:

Here are a few of the events that are planned for this term. We want to give as much heads up as possible, so you can get involved, but there are likely to be a few tweaks here and there. We’ll let you know asap.

Week 1

6 May = Year 4 attending Parish Mass

 

Week 2 - NZ Sign Language Week

10-11 May = Goal Setting Conferences

 

Week 3 - Bully Free NZ Week

16 May = School Photos

20 May = Pink Shirt Day

 

Week 5 - Samoan Language Week

2 June = y4-6 Cross Country 

 

Week 6

6 June = Queen’s Birthday

7 June = Teacher Only Day

 

Week 7

16 June = Matariki Liturgy (Kahikatea)

 

Week 8

24 June = Matariki Day Holiday

Holy Week - The Last Supper

 This week we are celebrating Holy week.  Mrs T came up with some different challenges to make us think about the Holy Week stories. 

On Monday we had to get in our iPad groups and make a stop motion movie of the Palm Sunday story. We've discovered that learning the story, planning the shots and organising the characters BEFORE we start shooting is a good idea. We'll share these to educa as soon as we organise ourselves and finish them. 

Today we focused on the Last Supper. We looked at the painting of the Last Supper by Da Vinci. We watched a video that talked about all of the hidden messages in the art - Jesus is reaching for the bread and wine = the bread and wine of Eucharist, Jesus and Judas are reaching for the same bowl and Judas is holding a small money bag, the apostles look shocked because Jesus has just told them that someone will betray him... Who knew that there was so much storytelling in one picture? Our challenge today was to replicate the Last Supper with a photo.  Here is a picture of the painting and our iPad photos - we bet you can hardly tell the difference!

Week 11 Term1 2022

Well, that term went fast! Term 1 has been quite the roller coaster - thanks to covid. Masks and attendance have been ‘fun’ to manage and we’ve become quite skilled at catching papers when sudden gusts of wind blast through our open doors and windows (good for eye-hand coordination, right?). 

I must say that the kids have been incredible! I love watching the way they all support each other's learning (and mine). They are wonderful at sharing their knowledge and talents with their classmates and I don’t think I have seen anyone turn down a request for help. They have also been very patient with me and turn up every day with the biggest smiles and positive attitudes - you make my job an absolute joy Room 14. We have had quite a few relief teachers this term and every single teacher has commented about how kind, polite and helpful Room 14 are.

Thank you, team. I am a very proud teacher.

This Weeks Learning

Literacy: Report Writing - we will be finishing our reports about animals. We have been very excited about our research and we are looking forward to putting it all together in a report.

Numeracy: We are continuing to build our knowledge of place value. We will also look at how we can collect, sort, display and analyse information (statistics). We are stepping it up a little every week. 

Religious Education: Holy Week. We will be doing lots of work based around the Holy Week stories. 

We Are Swimming This Week

Mon: Library

Tues:

Wed: "Phew! We made it through Term 1" party.

Thurs: Moving day

Washing of the feet liturgy

Kapa Haka

Fri: Good Friday

"Phew! We made it through Term 1" party

We decided that we needed to celebrate the end of term with a class party. The kids completed some statistical investigations about what we should do and eat. I will organise the cake and the activities but if families are able to provide a small (healthy-ish) plate of food to share with the class that would be great. We were going to do all of the catering etc at school BUT we have to pack everything up and move it into the hall this week. We are getting new carpet during the holidays!

Thanks for all of your kindness and support this term.

Photography Competition

Competition details.              Link to SPCA Photography Page

Room 14 kids are pretty interested in animals. We are writing reports about animals this week and they are buzzing with their discoveries, questions and interesting facts. 

The SPCA is running a photography competition that some of our mini biologists, vets and artists might be interested in. 

The details are linked above and the competition closes 25th April. It might be something that the kids would like to have a go at during the holidays.

Week 10!

 A big thank you to Mrs. Hunter, Mrs Dunkley and Mrs Bishop who held the fort last week while Mrs D looked after her lovely family and Mrs T was on a course. All three of these lovely ladies said that the Year 4 team were absolutely gorgeous and really kind and welcoming. Thank you Room 12 and 14 - we are so proud of you.

Congratulations to Zique who became a big sister to the newest member of her family. Congratulations to our AquaBot team has become the New Zealand Champs. Macklyn Smart, Jo Gentle and Sean Keeling won the regionals last year and last weekend won the N.Z. Championship well-done boys.

Congratulations also go to Mac, Elijah, Vedik and Braxton. These four boys all won our Wonder awards last week. They are four very curious and creative learners - keep it up boys. This week we are going to combine all our values and are looking for someone who shows all four values.

C.(Courage) R.(Respect) E.(Excellence)W.(Wonder)

This Weeks Learning

Literacy: Report writing - we are going to have a real focus on sentence structure and the introduction of paragraphs.

Numeracy: We are continuing to build our knowledge of place value. with a focus on rounding numbers. You can help out at home will asking your tamariki to round. Remember that 5 is the magic number when rounding to the nearest 10 and 50 when rounding to the nearest 100 and 500 when rounding to the nearest 1000.

Religious Education: WALT demonstrates an understanding of Palm Sunday as an event in Holy Week and recalls the symbols and rituals which remind us of Jesus’ final entry into Jerusalem. 

WALT -That Holy Week is the most important week in Jesus’ life and it is also the most important week for his followers to remember and celebrate.

No Swimming until week 11.

Mon: Library

Tues:

Wed:

Thurs: Thursday at 10 am is the Stations of the Cross.

Fri: Roller skating at lunchtime,

     Golden Time House Tug of War  Your child can bring clothes in house colours to wear for this event.