Kia ora whānau,
Our tamariki have had a busy and wonderful start to the final term of the year!
We are well underway with our athletics practices, we have had a ponds visit and we have started ukulele and dance sessions on a Tuesday.
A plea for any LLLL books (the readers we send home) to come back to school. We are carrying out a stocktake of these at the end of October, we are missing a few and they are very expensive to replace. If you find any at home please return to your child's classroom teacher.
A reminder for sunhats for Term 4 please.
Some dates for your diary:
Thursday 23rd October-Teacher Strike action, school is closed.
Thursday 30th October: Whole school athletics day. Kahikatea aim to run ours 11:00am-12:15pm, on the park.
Tuesday Arts:
We have been fortunate enough to receieve some funding to promote some performance arts sessions in the Year 1-4 classrooms. This means that on a Tuesday each homegroup has a 30minute ukulele session with our whānau worker Paerau (also a member of One Drop Nation) and a hip hop dance session with Steph from Legacy Dance. How lucky are we?!
Maths Learning:
We have had a two week focus on Geometry, looking at 3D shape. We have learnt some key mathematical language such as cube, cuboid, prism, cone, cylinder, faces and vertices. We have been learning about nets and how these are the blueprint/map for a 3D shape and learning about where we can spot 3D shapes in everyday life.
Athletics:
We are well underway with our practices. These are happening 2-3 times per week. Please ensure that your child is wearing appropriate footwear to partcipate. Sandals are not appropriate for these practices in terms of health and safety.
Ponds Trip:
We had such a wonderful time in our sessions run by the Christchurch City Council. We learnt about all of the differnt plant life and saw some of the invertabrates living in our pond. The council were impressed with the diversity of the ecosystems living in our Beckenham ponds.
Thank you to all of the parent helpers who came along to support us, we really appreciate you and cannot run these types of activites without your help.
