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Kahikatea Newsletter Week 4

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Cricket in Week 5

Christchurch Cricket Association will be here next week to run cricket lessons with our Kahikatea children. Please send your child / children to school in appropriate footwear and a warm top layer on Wednesday 24th August.

Session 1:   12:00 - 12:30      Hub 1
Session 2:     1:30 - 2:00        Hub 2
Session 3:     2:00 - 2:30        Hub 3
Session 4:     2:30 - 3:00        Hub 4

Amazing Asia

As part of our learning about Asia we are very lucky to have Felicia come to Kahikatea and teach our children some Mandarin every Wednesday for the rest of the term. What a great way to explore culture through language.

Learning Conferences

Your children are very busy at the moment preparing for our Learning Conferences, reflecting on their learning goals and practising leading their conference. Please remember to book a time to see how far the children have come and celebrate their successes.

Assembly Friday Week 5

Team Kahikatea are proud to host School Assembly on Friday 26th August at 9:15 - 9:45 in the hall. Come along if you can.

New Blogging Routine

So that we can celebrate our learning and also save you from getting too many notices, we have changed how we blog to you. From this week, we will be blogging just once a week. These posts will include the news you need plus any learning to share from the team.

Riding Scooters after School

Please be aware that there is no riding of scooters around the school grounds before or straight after school. This is to keep us all safe as children, parents and younger siblings are walking through school grounds. Children are welcome to scooter before 8:30am and after 3:30pm.

Discovery 

Here are some photos of Discovery this afternoon. The children were given a setting (rainforest) and a plot outline (meeting each other, something good or bad happens, finding their way home) and in groups of 3-4 they created a play which they performed to their audience.
Here are our some of our groups:







Kahikatea Newsletter Week 3

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Cricket in Week 5

Christchurch Junior Cricket Association will be here to run mini cricket lesson with all the students in Kahikatea. Please send your child/children to school in appropriate footwear and a warm top on Wednesday 24th August:
Session 1 @ 12:00 - 12:30 - R1
Session 2 @ 1:30 - 2:00 - R2
Session 3 @ 2:00 - 2:30 - R3
Session 4 @2:30 - 3:00 - R4


Term 3 Topic Focus: Amazing Asia

We have started our integrated unit topic: Amazing Asia and our students have begun by identifying the countries of Asia using maps and globes to help us develop a sense of place and location!
We have a number families here at Beckenham School who identify as Asian and we'd love to hear from you. Even if you know a little bit (or a lot!) about:


  • The history of your country
  • Information about the climate and the types of food and plants which grow there
  • The unique languages that are spoken or perhaps something related to arts or crafts (e.g. origami), clothing, special celebrations or events...

We would love to hear from you, so do let your hub teachers know. 

Mandarin Language Lessons

Our Mandarin Learning Assistant, Felicia, will be starting sessions next Wednesday morning (17th August). She will do a half hour session with each hub. 

Kahikatea Team Newsletter Term 3 Week 2

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Kia Ora Parents/Caregivers

We have had an excellent week despite some very chilly days. Here are some of the Discovery Stations, which our children are getting into before the bell has even gone each morning!

Using binary code to write our name.

Figuring out how much our name is worth using a chart with each letter being worth a different $ amount. 

Writing our stories on whiteboards. 

We are focussing on target/fielding games and gymnastics this term in PE. Each hub alternates weekly between these lessons. Here is an example of a target game where we try to hit a 'lily pad' with beanbags to earn points:

 We are working on mastering different passes here:

Mihi
Through our topic focus on cultures we are working with the children on their mihi. If you know your family mountain, waka, river or iwi it would be great if your child was able to bring this information along to school. 

Book the Couch
If you would like to bring a favourite book to read to a small group of children between 8:30a.m. and 9:00am we will let the children know when you have arrived to read to them. We will include this as a station in the morning. If you are interested please let your child's teacher know. 

Thank you!
We had a lovely surprise from the Court Theatre today who came in to drop off huge bags of dress-ups for our team. Thank you to Rob who organised this for us - there were some very excited children and teachers alike! 

We love Challenge

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Today, during Discovery Stations, we talked about why it is important to challenge yourself. The children had some great ideas:

"If you do something and think it is challenging, but keep trying and then eventually do it, you will be so proud of yourself."

"It's important to challenge yourself because otherwise you wont try new things."

"If you are doing the same thing everyday, and it's not challenging, then you wont learn."





These girls found tangram patterns challenging at first, but after some perseverance, they worked out some strategies to make the task at hand easier.