Category Archives: Kahikatea
Kahikatea Team News T1 Week 5
Kia ora Whānau,
Wow, we are now halfway through the term! Our tamariki are truly demonstrating our school kete values as they learn new routines, get to know new friends and challenge themselves to meet new learning goals. We are so proud of everyone for all their amazing mahi, ka rawe koutou!
Word of the Week
Our word of the week is RESPECT.
Respect is an attitude of caring about people and treating them with dignity. Respect is valuing ourselves and others. We show respect by speaking and acting with courtesy. When we are respectful, we treat others as we want to be treated.
Structured Literacy
Learning Through Play
- Water play toys
- Craft and construction (wool, boxes, buttons, lids, containers etc)
- Magazines, coloured paper or card, posters, old calendars
- Stickers/labels
- Good dress-up costumes (including hats, accessories, shoes)
- wrapping paper
- ribbon or string
- boxes for box construction (cereal boxes, biscuit boxes, small paper bags, egg cartons etc
Photos
Reminders:
- please name your child's belongings
- please remind your child/ren they do not need to bring toys to school
- hats are to be worn during break times
Kahikatea News Term 1 Week 3
Kia ora e te whānau,
We have had a wonderful start to the year in the Kahikatea team. Time has flown! We have loved seeing tamariki settling in so well and coming to school with smiles on their faces.
Learning Through Play Highlights
We love Learning Through Play in the Kahikatea team!
"I like putting in water for water play!" - Jacob
"I like being outside and water play!" - Emily
"My favourite activity is dress-up." - Maryam
"I like being on the swing." - Henri
"I love playing outside." - Archie
"We love playing with the Duplo." - Kura and Mia
Learning Through Play Resources
Kahikatea is on the lookout for toys and resources for Learning Through Play. If you have toys, games, puzzles, or dress-ups that your family no longer needs or uses, we would happily take them off your hands! He waka eke noa, we get there together.
House Games
We will be having House Games on Mondays during weeks 4 (19/2/24), 6 (4/3/24), and 8 (18/3/24) this term. Your child is welcome to wear their house shirt.
Library
We will begin our weekly library visits next week (Week 4). The library is also open during morning tea and lunch play times - children are welcome to go to the library to return books, issue new ones, or browse books during this time.
Library Days
Tuesdays - Amber and Ella's home groups
Thursdays - Quynh and Sarah's home groups
Literacy
We began working with our literacy teachers this week. It has been lovely to see children showing 'We Love Learning' during literacy time. Your child's literacy folder tub is kept in the pathway. We encourage children to bring their literacy folder to each literacy lesson.
Whānau Photo Wall
One of our kaiako, Sarah, had a wonderful idea of putting whānau photos up on the wall in Kahikatea. If you have photos of your family that you would like to contribute to this, please feel free to email Sarah (sarah.angelo@beckenham.school.
Netball Sessions
Kahikatea News Term 4 Week 9
Kia ora e te whānau,
What a wonderful and action-packed couple of weeks we have had!
Transition Visits
With 2024 around the corner, we had the first of our transition visits this week. Our year 2s visited Kōwhai, and our year 1s made new connections with our Koru visitors in the Kahikatea hub. There were lots of creative activities on offer and many smiles seen.
- This was the last week of the year for decodable books to be sent home for the year. Please send any books (including library books) back to school
- Please send your learner along to school with a reusable bag so that we can start sending workbooks home next week
- You are most welcome to attend our final Celebration Assembly for the year. This is at 9:45 on the 15th December
- Our last day of the year is Tuesday 19th December- finishing at 12:30
Kahikatea News Term 4 Week 7
Team Kahikatea has been busy this week finishing off our literacy assessments for the year and celebrating the fantastic progress each learner has made this term. We are so proud of all our beautiful tamariki!
Our learning focus turns to Fairy Tales for the next few weeks and will include a special trip to the Isaac Theatre Royal to see the Southern Ballet performance of Cinderella.
We will be learning about Fairy Tales from all around the world and celebrating the diversity of our tamariki through stories, retellings, and little performances.
If your child has a favourite Fairy Tale book they are very welcome to bring it along to kura and share it with their home group or literacy group.
Below is a YouTube video explaining What Is A Fairy Tale?