Thursday 19 February 2015
Tuesday 17 February 2015
Thursday 12 February 2015
Wednesday 4 February 2015
Tuesday 3 February 2015
Welcome Back
Room 2 Newsletter Term 1
2015
Dear Parents and
Caregivers,
I am very
excited about being back at school and I’m looking forward to working with you
and your lovely children. I hope you managed to have some fun times together
over the summer break and that you could make the most of the fabulous weather.
This term our
topic focus is “Citizenship”. We are looking at this around being actively
involved in our class, school and community and we will be exploring how events
like the Cricket World Cup contribute to healthy communities. In Visual
Language (English) we will look at the logos and posters used to promote the
World Cup.
The genre for
writing this turn will be descriptive language. There will be lots of
opportunities across the curriculum to build vocabulary and to use these great
words in our speaking and writing. Feel free to come into the classroom and
read your child’s writing.
Kiwi Sport
resumes this year and will be on Wednesdays. We will also be focusing on ball
skills and simple ball games as well as co-operative play. We have a cricket
day planned in March to tie in with the World Cup. The last two weeks of the
term will be swimming.
The Arts focus
this term will be Visual Art. Room 1 and 2 will explore the creative
possibilities of clay, plasticene and dough. On the 13th February,
the Outreach programme from the Art Gallery will be working with the children to
create an art work.
Easter is early
this year so we will talk about Ash Wednesday and Lent after establishing our
class prayer routines and reflecting on types of prayer. The strand we will
cover will be the Jesus strand as well as the Caritas Lenten programme.
There are lots
of opportunities for parents to help in Room 2. It might involve playing maths
or words games with a small group, reading to children, listening to a child
read or more mundane things like cutting or pasting or putting away books. It
doesn’t have to be a big commitment. It can be as small as 15 minutes before
the 3pm bell or half an hour one morning. It doesn’t have to be weekly. Please
let me know if you are interested and what you would be most comfortable doing.
We have lots of
ways of communicating these days which is great. It always pays to read the
weekly school newsletter thoroughly. Sometimes dates change. It is on our
website if, for some reason, a newsletter doesn’t come home. St Anne’s is on
Facebook and often reminders about events are posted there. Checking up on our
class blog is a great way to know what is going on in Room 2. It is always
great to have comments posted too. Our bog address is www.stannes102.blogspot.co.nz.
I am also happy for parents to email me (marian@stannes.co.nz)
Thank you for
all the support.
Marian Jones
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