Despite the terrible weather we have had, I hope that everyone is enjoying the holidays so far!
This is my only real holiday this year before the summer holidays due to my university studies. I have received my results back from my first semester and I passed both my papers with distinction, which I am very pleased about!
This Term coming up is going to be a very busy one, so I will be keeping you posted through this blog.
Below I will outline some things I want to implement in the program, change or events that are coming up.
Please feel free to comment below if there are any questions or comments or just to let me know that you have read this.
Cheers,
Joy
100 day party
Date: 1st August 2014
Time: 10am-11am
As the children have probably already shown you during the PPPs, we have been counting the number of days that we have been at school. Friday of Week 2, which is falls on the 1st if August we are going to have a 100 day party!
During this time I have also told the students that they are allowed to bring their pets from home into the classroom with them to show and tell, provided that their parents are there with them while the pet is in the classroom.
We will also be having a 100 day party themed shared morning tea, so if everyone could please bring a plate that would be fantastic.
On that note, there are still a couple of plates from our farewell morning tea that haven't yet been collected.
We also made these celebration hats with the help of the parents there and the children absolutely loved it!
Reading
In the reading program I have added in a couple of new features, that would be useful for you to know.
High frequency words: As you have probably seen, I have made and sent home packs of words, specific to the level of books that your child is reading, i.e those reading books at yellow are given yellow words home.
These have taken a very very long time to make, so please look after them! There is a list in there of what words are in the pack and I would appreciate it if you check before sending the words back to school whether there are the same number in your child's pack.
These words can stay at home until I have checked them off throughout the term that your children instantly recognises these, they cannot be sounding these words out.
Winter reading group: The winter group will be getting only one book home per day because we are going to start looking at books in more detail and zoom in on comprehending the text by developing a series or comprehension strategies.
Therefore homework is going to be a bit different. I am going to send home one book that the students keep for the week along with an exercise in their homework book that helps practice the comprehension strategy. Please send the homework book and the reading book back to school at the end of the week.
The schedule for developing reading comprehension strategies will be as follows:
Week 2/3: Activating prior knowledge
Week 4/5: Self monitoring
Week 6/7: Predicting
Week 8/9: Questioning
So there will only be one piece of reading homework but it will be an activity to help students practice each comprehension strategy taught in class.
Maths
The first two terms has been a whole class focus in class to build up mathematical knowledge. This Term I am implementing group work for maths to push students onto the next strategy stage.
For homework, I would like to focus on the area that students lack in most, basic facts.
Like in reading, children need fast words to help free up cognitive space to work out more complex problems, this also goes for maths.
I would like to set up a basic facts sticker chart so that this becomes the focus in class as well as at home.
News
On Mondays and Fridays the children have a slot of time for news. I would like to make this news time a toy-free time this term and for it to become a talk time where children can share interesting news items they have found, interesting things from nature (pictures are fine), holiday stories, favourite books or artefacts from home.
In order to manage this time-wise and have enough time to discuss the news in detail, 2 students are chosen for each Monday and Friday to bring something to share.
Below is the schedule for Term 3.
Week
|
Monday
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Friday
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2
|
Beau & Luke
|
Logan & Jane
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3
|
Bekele &
Ollie & Jade
|
Sam & Shay
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4
|
Rudi & Poppy
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Harry & Bella
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5
|
Luka &
Tawera
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Ruby & Frankie
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6
|
Joel & Eva
|
Ben &
Zachary
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7
|
Matai & Louis
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Dev & Beau
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8
|
Logan, Jane,
Bekele & Ollie
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Sam, Shay, Rudi
& Poppy
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9
|
Harry, Bella,
Luka & Tawera
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Ruby, Frankie,
Joel & Eva
|
10
|
Ben, Zachary,
Matai, Dev & Louis
|
Integrated studies
This term starts off with kitchen chemistry. We are working towards a day where we make our own pizzas! Watch this space!
If you have any question or comments, please let me know!
Enjoy the rest of the holidays!
Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan
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