Week 9

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I would update you on the happenings of this week.
This is another week where I am out of class a few days for various things (BT courses and uni)

Today I am at a beginning teacher course in Albany.
Tomorrow I will be in Manukau visiting a range of schools and having a look at their digital learning resources for my course at university.

Tracey and Jill will be in the class this week and I will be back in class on Thursday.

I am still checking my e-mails and am happy to respond to any questions you may have about anything.

Just a question, I have been notified of limited access to studyladder. Could anyone who is also having problems or who has notices this e-mail me so I can sort this out. It may be that I have to look into purchasing the unlimited version of studyladder for the class so that everyone has unlimited access.

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

Lost property in the classroom

I have got a pile of jumpers that either don't have names or the names have faded to the point they are hard to decipher. If you know that your child is missing a jumper, you are welcome to come and check these jumpers.

I am going to leave them in a box in the classroom until the end of this term and then they are going to the lost property. This is located on the old hall deck.

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

No readers

We didn't get around to completing out reading today, so some children may have not brought home reading books. My apologies! Time ran away on us and I totally forgot that we hadn't finished reading.

Books to come tomorrow!

Cheers,
Joy

Homework on Length

Please encourage your child to complete the activities about length on Studyladder.

These will really support what the children have started learning about in class.

Cheers,
Joy

Assembly in week 10

Hi Everyone,

Room 3 has an assembly coming up before the end of term 1. One of the items the children would really like to show the school involves plastic buckets and 2 of our rhymes (Hickory, Dickory, Dock and Humptey Dumptey).

So, could children please bring their bucket to school. The bucket should be around the size as shown in the picture so that they will be able to tap the top of the bucket.

Room 2 and 3's shared assembly will be on Friday of week 10. Please could we aim to get the children's buckets into class by the end of week 9 so that we can have a couple of practices with the buckets before assembly in week 10.

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

Jandal Day

This friday is Jandal day!!

Children are welcome to wear their decorated jandals to school and encourage them to bring a gold coin donation towards our local surf life saving club.

House leaders will be hosting a variety of jandal-themed games at lunchtime.

Look forward to seeing everyone in their flip-flops on Friday!

    

Homework for week 7

For week 7's mathematics homework I have set the children a couple of tasks around length for their mathematics on studyladder. I won't be glueing any mathematics homework onto their books.

Cheers,
Joy

Missing pants

Hi Everyone,

On Monday, Room 3 went swimming and it appears that these has been an accidental swap around of pants.

One of the boys has taken a size 8 pair of shorts home with the name Harrison Watts in them. If anyone has noticed their boy coming home with a slightly over-sized pair of shorts would you please be able to check for a name inside the shorts or their size?

If anyone finds it, could you please return it to school and I will pass it onto the boy in Room 9 that went home in a pair 6 shorts and retrieve the size 6 shorts in return.

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

Parent help privacy form

Hi Everyone,

Just letting you know that those of you who have volunteered to come into the class to do parent help are going to be given a school privacy agreement home today.

This is just a form that needs to be signed stating that whatever you see and do in the class with regards to the children's learning, progress and achievement remains confidential.

This is in compliance with the Privacy Act 1933.

Please sign and return these to school in book bags.

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

High Frequency word cards

Hi Everyone,

Some children came home with word cards yesterday. It is really important that these are practiced everyday, both the reading and writing of them.

Eventually, I will be taking off the easier words and replacing these with harder ones, so please make sure that the word cards do get sent back to school with the kids, especially on Thursdays and Fridays.

In the back of their homework books are the words that your child knows instantly. Some of the words children may sound out, however, these words need to be instant knowledge for them to help them learn to read.

If you have any questions, please e-mail me or come and see me before or after class.

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

Studyladder

Hi Everyone,

Hope that you are all enjoying your week so far!
Next week is theme week so the children can look forward to the life education bus coming to Matakana Primary school.

After theme week, we are going to start a mathematics unit on length. Studyladder is a great interactive website designed for children to practice skills in a variety of different areas of learning. I have set up each child with their own log in and password so that they can access their own account.

I would like to use this interactive learning webtool for homework in week 7. I will send home a notice with the children tomorrow (Friday the 7th of March) so that you can read more about studyladder and have all the access codes that you need.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

Parent help

Parent help timetable

Hi everyone, sorry that it has taken so long for me to get this parent help timetable sorted. I have made 2 timetables one for odd school weeks and one for even school weeks (This coming week is week 5). Should there be a clash with your personal schedules you may be able to arrange a swap with each other.

Also, when you come in for parent help, there is a privacy policy that parent helpers have to sign. I will have these ready in week 6 and give you each a copy.

Below are some of the listed activities on each of the days. Please note sometimes this may change.

Monday

·      Glue in literacy activities for the week

·      Sharpen pencils

·      Read with children sent to you

Tuesday

·      Helping with the writing program in the class (Middle block)

·      Typing up children’s writing into their publishing templates (Afternoon)

·      Help to finish making mathematics games for the classroom (Middle and afternoon)

Wednesday

·      Helping with writing program.

·      Mounting art work, cleaning the classroom etc

Thursday

·      Putting books away into the book room

Friday

·      Gluing in homework for following week.

·      Putting remaining books into book room

·      Clean the classroom/tidy trays/clean art area etc

Odd weeks

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Kate Hassan (Morning)	Rachel O’Malley (Afternoon)	Jo Forsyth (Middle block)	Jo Benson (Afternoon)	Pam Boss (Morning)

Even weeks

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Nicole Gibson (Morning)	Ingrid Le Prou (Middle) Nicole Inger (Afternoon)	Vicki fanning (Middle)	Dellyse Gibson (Morning)	Punam Darji (Morning)

Many many thanks for everyone who offered to help!!! I really really appreciate it!

Kind Regards, 

Joy Kraan