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Life Education - Inquiry into IDENTITY<\/span><\/b><\/h3>Next week, each home group will have two lessons with 'Harold' in the Life Education truck. Our focus during these lessons will about friendships and how to care for our body. These lessons will help the children to learn more about their identity and how our actions impact on others as well as the importance of looking after ourselves.
As part of our inquiry learning into identity, the children have been making connections with each other through games and activities looking for similarities and differences. Here are some examples of their learning using art and wordle.
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Literacy- Reading<\/span><\/h3><\/div>This term we are teaching in teams for literacy, with Rowe and Paulette's homegroup working together and Nick and Laura's homegroup working together. We have begun to introduce the routines for our reading programme with the children now having reading lessons during the week with a teacher.
The children reading level 21 and below will bring a book home from their browsing box to read each night. The aim of these books is for the children to develop their reading fluency and expression. They should be fun and easy for the children to read.
If your child is reading level 22 and above, they should be reading a self-chosen chapter book.
Each night, we would like the children to record the book or chapter(s) they have read in their home book (this is kept in their home learning folder) and for you to sign that they have read at night. Daily reading is so important for children to become proficient readers, so your support is greatly appreciated!
<\/span><\/b><\/h3>Water- Drink bottles<\/span><\/b><\/h3>It is really important that each child have a water bottle at school EVERY day to enable them to stay hydrated. Kathleen Liberty' s research has shown that it is important to drink water because...
1. Water helps you to think
2. Water helps your body to grow
3. Water helps you to learn
4. Water helps you to stay calm.
We actively encourage the children to drink water throughout the day. You can support us by making sure your child has their named drink bottle at school.
DMIC- Maths<\/span><\/h3>We have begun our DMIC (maths) programme and have been very impressed with the mathematical conversations the children have been having so far. This week we have begun to set up student access to a study ladder account. Next week, the children will bring home their login and password details for them to be able to access their account from home. This will be found in their home school book. The purpose of using this online took is for the children to develop their mathematical fluency. Please note: this is an optional<\/b> activity for home learning.
Discovery- Learning through Play<\/span><\/b><\/h3>Learning through play is a pedagogical and neurological approach to learning \u2013 where children can explore, experiment, discover, and solve problems in imaginative, playful and agentic ways.
Each day, we provide the children with the opportunity to learn through play. It is one way we are able to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Curriculum by developing confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners. Almost all of the values and key competencies in The New Zealand Curriculum can be developed by learning through play regardless of the age of students. Connections across learning areas and to the wider world are able to be explored.
Through play children develop;<\/b><\/i>
* cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, deep and variable thinking, mathematics, and language (oral, written )skills
* social capabilities, establishing and fostering relationships, regulating emotions, and control their own behaviours
* fine and gross motor skills<\/div>
<\/div>We actively ask what the children are learning <\/i>at this time to encourage them to take their thinking to the next level. Here are some of the children in action this week.<\/div>
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Literacy- Reading<\/span><\/h3><\/div>This term we are teaching in teams for literacy, with Rowe and Paulette's homegroup working together and Nick and Laura's homegroup working together. We have begun to introduce the routines for our reading programme with the children now having reading lessons during the week with a teacher.
The children reading level 21 and below will bring a book home from their browsing box to read each night. The aim of these books is for the children to develop their reading fluency and expression. They should be fun and easy for the children to read.
If your child is reading level 22 and above, they should be reading a self-chosen chapter book.
Each night, we would like the children to record the book or chapter(s) they have read in their home book (this is kept in their home learning folder) and for you to sign that they have read at night. Daily reading is so important for children to become proficient readers, so your support is greatly appreciated!
<\/span><\/b><\/h3>Water- Drink bottles<\/span><\/b><\/h3>It is really important that each child have a water bottle at school EVERY day to enable them to stay hydrated. Kathleen Liberty' s research has shown that it is important to drink water because...
1. Water helps you to think
2. Water helps your body to grow
3. Water helps you to learn
4. Water helps you to stay calm.
We actively encourage the children to drink water throughout the day. You can support us by making sure your child has their named drink bottle at school.
DMIC- Maths<\/span><\/h3>We have begun our DMIC (maths) programme and have been very impressed with the mathematical conversations the children have been having so far. This week we have begun to set up student access to a study ladder account. Next week, the children will bring home their login and password details for them to be able to access their account from home. This will be found in their home school book. The purpose of using this online took is for the children to develop their mathematical fluency. Please note: this is an optional<\/b> activity for home learning.
Discovery- Learning through Play<\/span><\/b><\/h3>Learning through play is a pedagogical and neurological approach to learning \u2013 where children can explore, experiment, discover, and solve problems in imaginative, playful and agentic ways.
Each day, we provide the children with the opportunity to learn through play. It is one way we are able to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Curriculum by developing confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners. Almost all of the values and key competencies in The New Zealand Curriculum can be developed by learning through play regardless of the age of students. Connections across learning areas and to the wider world are able to be explored.
Through play children develop;<\/b><\/i>
* cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, deep and variable thinking, mathematics, and language (oral, written )skills
* social capabilities, establishing and fostering relationships, regulating emotions, and control their own behaviours
* fine and gross motor skills<\/div>
<\/div>We actively ask what the children are learning <\/i>at this time to encourage them to take their thinking to the next level. Here are some of the children in action this week.<\/div>
The children reading level 21 and below will bring a book home from their browsing box to read each night. The aim of these books is for the children to develop their reading fluency and expression. They should be fun and easy for the children to read.
If your child is reading level 22 and above, they should be reading a self-chosen chapter book.
Each night, we would like the children to record the book or chapter(s) they have read in their home book (this is kept in their home learning folder) and for you to sign that they have read at night. Daily reading is so important for children to become proficient readers, so your support is greatly appreciated!
<\/span><\/b><\/h3>Water- Drink bottles<\/span><\/b><\/h3>It is really important that each child have a water bottle at school EVERY day to enable them to stay hydrated. Kathleen Liberty' s research has shown that it is important to drink water because...
1. Water helps you to think
2. Water helps your body to grow
3. Water helps you to learn
4. Water helps you to stay calm.
We actively encourage the children to drink water throughout the day. You can support us by making sure your child has their named drink bottle at school.
DMIC- Maths<\/span><\/h3>We have begun our DMIC (maths) programme and have been very impressed with the mathematical conversations the children have been having so far. This week we have begun to set up student access to a study ladder account. Next week, the children will bring home their login and password details for them to be able to access their account from home. This will be found in their home school book. The purpose of using this online took is for the children to develop their mathematical fluency. Please note: this is an optional<\/b> activity for home learning.
Discovery- Learning through Play<\/span><\/b><\/h3>Learning through play is a pedagogical and neurological approach to learning \u2013 where children can explore, experiment, discover, and solve problems in imaginative, playful and agentic ways.
Each day, we provide the children with the opportunity to learn through play. It is one way we are able to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Curriculum by developing confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners. Almost all of the values and key competencies in The New Zealand Curriculum can be developed by learning through play regardless of the age of students. Connections across learning areas and to the wider world are able to be explored.
Through play children develop;<\/b><\/i>
* cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, deep and variable thinking, mathematics, and language (oral, written )skills
* social capabilities, establishing and fostering relationships, regulating emotions, and control their own behaviours
* fine and gross motor skills<\/div>
<\/div>We actively ask what the children are learning <\/i>at this time to encourage them to take their thinking to the next level. Here are some of the children in action this week.<\/div>
1. Water helps you to think
2. Water helps your body to grow
3. Water helps you to learn
4. Water helps you to stay calm.
We actively encourage the children to drink water throughout the day. You can support us by making sure your child has their named drink bottle at school.
DMIC- Maths<\/span><\/h3>We have begun our DMIC (maths) programme and have been very impressed with the mathematical conversations the children have been having so far. This week we have begun to set up student access to a study ladder account. Next week, the children will bring home their login and password details for them to be able to access their account from home. This will be found in their home school book. The purpose of using this online took is for the children to develop their mathematical fluency. Please note: this is an optional<\/b> activity for home learning.
Discovery- Learning through Play<\/span><\/b><\/h3>Learning through play is a pedagogical and neurological approach to learning \u2013 where children can explore, experiment, discover, and solve problems in imaginative, playful and agentic ways.
Each day, we provide the children with the opportunity to learn through play. It is one way we are able to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Curriculum by developing confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners. Almost all of the values and key competencies in The New Zealand Curriculum can be developed by learning through play regardless of the age of students. Connections across learning areas and to the wider world are able to be explored.
Through play children develop;<\/b><\/i>
* cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, deep and variable thinking, mathematics, and language (oral, written )skills
* social capabilities, establishing and fostering relationships, regulating emotions, and control their own behaviours
* fine and gross motor skills<\/div>
<\/div>We actively ask what the children are learning <\/i>at this time to encourage them to take their thinking to the next level. Here are some of the children in action this week.<\/div>
Each day, we provide the children with the opportunity to learn through play. It is one way we are able to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Curriculum by developing confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners. Almost all of the values and key competencies in The New Zealand Curriculum can be developed by learning through play regardless of the age of students. Connections across learning areas and to the wider world are able to be explored.
Through play children develop;<\/b><\/i>
* cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, deep and variable thinking, mathematics, and language (oral, written )skills
* social capabilities, establishing and fostering relationships, regulating emotions, and control their own behaviours
* fine and gross motor skills<\/div>
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We actively ask what the children are learning <\/i>at this time to encourage them to take their thinking to the next level. Here are some of the children in action this week.<\/div>
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