What have Team Seuss been learning this week?

Term 4 Week 8 (30th Nov - 4th Dec)

We have ...

• performed our assembly items in front of the whole school and our parents - Xavier
• been doing a special art project as a surprise for our families - Ataahua & Jamal
• been swimming with our buddies - Jamal
• written an invitation to our parents to come to our assembly - Caitlen & Ataahua
• been learning how to swim with floaties - Maddie
• been learning to gain confidence in the water - Xavier
• continuing to learn to read the calendar every day - Jamal & Kaila
• been counting down the days until the end of school with our chocolate advent calendar - Jodie and Caitlen
• noticed the beans growing and they now have flowers on them - Maddie & Jodie
• been continuing to learn our jolly phonics - Ataahua
• watched the senior performance in the hall - Rishika
• Practicing our christmas songs

ALSO check out how many of us now know all the letters of the alphabet or all the jolly phonics sounds.

What has Team Seuss been up to this week?

Term 4 Week 6 16th Nov - 20th Nov

We have ...

• been learning our numbers in maths - Maddie and Jodie
• been reading books - Shyla
• been continuing to learn new christmas carols like Snoopy's Christmas, Santa around the world, Grandma got run over by a reindeer and Winter Wonderland - Caitlen, Jodie, Ataahua, Shyla, Maddie
• been learning our jolly phonics and writing the letters f, b, ai - Xavier
• been reading Billy McBrown - Axel
• been learning to write our names on the whiteboards and we have been learning how to illustrate christmas pictures - Phoenix and Axel
• been writing letters to Santa - Shyla
• had a letter from Barnaby who is in France at the moment and he taught us how to say Merry Christmas in french 'Joyeux Noel' and he taught us to say 'Feliz Navidad' in Spanish last week. - Kingston, Caitlen and Ataahua
• been learning how to read a calendar - Alexander
• been learning how to swim and have confidence in the water - Pheonix and Levi
• been watching our beans continue to grow because we have been watering them and looking after them - Jodie & Caitlen
• been learning our routine for our Assembly in 2 weeks time - Maddie

Dont' forget Team Seuss are on assembly in 2 weeks so come along and watch us perform.  You wont' be disappointed.

Team Seuss

Here are our beans after 6 weeks

Where are the places that Team Seuss have been this week?

Term 4 Week 4 2-6th November 2015

This week we have . . .

• been learning christmas carols, my favourite is Santa you're too fat - Rishika
• received a letter from Santa and he has asked us to write back so we have been learning how to write letters - Ataahua, Caitlen
• been painting with our buddies.  We drew our hands and then painted around our hands. - Jodie
• been making fireworks pictures.  We coloured in a sheet of paper with lots of bright colours, then we painted it black and then we scratched it with the end of a pencil - Xavier, Shyla and Caitlen
• been learning all about Guy Fawkes.  He is a man called Guy Fawkes who tried to kill King James I of England, he was caught and the King was saved.  The fireworks are our way of celebrating the King being saved. - Maddie, Caitlen, Jodie and Shyla
• been learning our number in maths - Jamal
• been learning how to read a calendar every day - Levi
• been learning new jump jam songs like YMCA & 5, 6, 7, 8 - Kaila, Caitlen
• been learning silly sentences and d, n & m for jolly phonics - Jodi
• been attending our school assembly that Room 4 put on - Shyla
• been presenting our news like news readers about our favourite characters - Jamal & Caitlen

Our beans are continuing to grow.  What a great week of learning.

What have we been up to this week?

Term 4 Week 2

This week we have . . .

• been learning about measurement and we are growing beans, they have come through the soil and there are 15 and 2 little ones there.
• learning jolly phonics letters and sounds for e, p, n, c & k
• learnt the word family for dog
• been getting fit with car wash and coconut jump jam songs
• been reading and learning letters and words through puzzles and games
• been learning our jumping, runing and throwing skills for athletics next week
• been learning to run relays with our bussy class
• been writing descriptions about giraffes, lions, penguins and snakes
• learning that some snakes can swim and can climb
• been learning that penguins are birds but they can't fly, they swim instead
• been learning that giraffes live in Africa
• been learning that lions have a mane and eat meat

News Roster for Term 4

Dear Parents/Caregivers

This term Team Seuss are going to continue to learn how to be news presenters to help them with their oral language and present their news.  The children have chosen the topics for the term and they will be rostered on (see image) so they have a set day to prepare to share their news on their topic.  This will be every 2nd week of the term and the odd weeks they will be choosing their own oral language to share if they choose to.

Can you please look at the roster and help your child to prepare for their day to share?

The children will need plenty of chances to practise what they are going to say so they feel confident when sitting up the front and talking to the class, so the more chance you give them to practise at home the better.  You will also need to prompt them for things to say.  On the roster you will see some ideas to help you with this. 

Thank you for your support!

Cat (Miss Kincaid) & Tracie (Miss Jones)

Welcome back to Term 4!

Team Seuss have had a great start back to the term.  We have done some fun learning this week and we have been enjoying the nice sunny weather.  In Term 4 we all need to be wearing our hats at morning tea time and lunch time.
Here are some of the things we did this week...

- We read a new big book about "Cass the Colour Robber"
- In Maths we are learning about measurement and capacity
- We have learnt what 'full' and 'empty' mean
- We have also been talking about things that are heavy and light
- In our jolly phonics 1 group have learnt the letters s, a, t and i
- Another phonics group have been learning rhyming words with "cat"
- We have been building things before school
- Miss Kincaid has been teaching us a new Samoan song and how to use the rakau sticks
- During our buddy time we played some games outside

We also welcomed Jhade and Ruby into Team Seuss this week.  We are very lucky to have them as part of our team.

Class Notices

We have introduced drop at the door Wednesdays to promote the children's independence. They will be able to come in the classroom by themselves and unpack their bags and get organised for the day.

It is also really important that the children read everynight and they remember to bring their reading folders and books back everyday.

Please help ensure that the children get enough sleep every night, primary aged should have 10 - 12 hours each night.  They have been very busy at school and as we are nearing the end of the term they are feeling the strain of this showing signs they are very tired by being sensitive about little things.

It is also important that the children drink plenty of water so bring along a named drink bottle full with water so they can have a drink when they need to in class time.

We are performing our wearble arts next week so they children will need to bring in a named plastic bag with plain clothes that represent water colours, eg blue, white or green colours.  Every child has been working hard to learn a dance and will be performing at both the matinee and the evening performance so they all need to have these available.   Please look out for notices from the school with more information about our open day and this performance.  Make sure you get your tickets before they run out.

Regards
Cat & Tracie

News Roster

Dear Parents/Caregivers

This term Team Seuss are going to learn how to be news presenters to help them with their oral language and present their news.  The children have chosen the topics for the term and they will be rostered on (see below) so they have a set day to prepare to share their news on their topic.  This will be every 2nd week of the term and the odd weeks they will be choosing their own oral language to share if they choose to.

Can you please look at the roster (maybe keep a copy on the fridge to help remind you of when they are rostered on) and help your child to prepare for their day to share?

The children will need plenty of chances to practice what they are going to say so they feel confident when sitting up the front and talking to the class so the more chance you give them to practice at home the better.  You will also need to prompt them for things to say.  On the roster you will see some ideas to help you with this. 

Thank you for your support!

Cat (Miss Kincaid) & Tracie (Miss Jones)

What have we been up to this week?

Term 3 Week 1 (20th - 24th July)

Team Seuss have been ...

• learning the letters s, a, t and i for jolly phonics
• writing silly sentences like a big fat cat sat on the mat because they are our rhyming words
• learning word families
• learning kapahaka songs for our mihi whakatau
• sparking our brains and pumping our blood by doing some jump jam each morning.  This week we learnt superstar and you should be dancing.
• writing about what we did in the holidays
• making get well cards for one of our team who has been in the hospital, Jamal
• learning to skip count in 2's
• learning to count to 25
• learning to order our numbers to 20
• to the library with our buddies and read together then did the matariki macarena
• getting books out of the school library to have in our class
• using the playground as an obstacle course
• learning new words that we can recognise in our reading, Kingston learnt 'is'
• learning the poem twinkle twinkle little star and making our own stars
• reading some books that we can take home and read to our families

We also welcomed 5 new students to our class this week.  We now have two 6 year olds in our class.

Join us to find out what we are going to learn next week.

Welcome back to Term 3

Welcome back to another exciting term.  We have quite a few new children starting in Team Seuss this term so a warm welcome to all the new families.
As an official welcome please come along to our Mihi Whakatau this Friday at 10.20am.  See school notice for more information on this.

Just a few reminders... 
With these cold winter months we have a lot of runny noses so please help your children learn to blow their nose at home.  While you are at it can you please teach your children how to tie their shoelaces, or provide them with velcro shoes.

There are still come outstanding library books.  Please make sure that you bring back the school library books each week.  Our library day is Wednesdays.

For this first week, Fruit in Schools will not be providing fruit for the children.  Please make sure there is a piece of fruit in the children's lunchbox that they can eat during fruit time.

What's happening this term...
Week 1 - Mihi Whakatau
Week 2 - Hearing and Vision testing.  If you think your child needs this please see the office.
             - Welcome to our Student teachers, Miss Parish and Miss Gardyne
Week 3 - Redwood library class visit
Week 4 - Maui in the Sun performance
Week 6 - Team Seuss Assembly
Week 7 - Kapa Haka Cultural Festival (Seniors)
Week 9 - Arts Week - open day and wearable arts performance
Week 10 - Last week for the term

Every week we will be updating the blog on a Friday so you know what the children have been learning for the week.  Team Seuss will help us write this so check it out!  Reminders and other notices that affect our class will also be published on this blog.

Have a great term!
Tracie and Cat

Term 2 2015

Term one was an exciting and eventful term seeing our class numbers increase from 7 (who were pre enrolled for the year) to 16 by the end on the term.  We have been very lucky to have welcomed two fabulous teacher trainees, Miss Johnston and Miss McLean in the latter half of the term. Unfortunately they were only with us for a short time so we had to say goodbye to them on the last day of the term and sadly, also to Zachariah who is moving on to another school.  You will be missed by us all Zachariah as you are such a happy and strong personality in our team.

Term two is a long 11 week term with a lot of learning packed in to it.  We will be celebrating ANZAC in our first week finishing with our mufti-day on the Friday to help fundraise for Poppy Day, please make sure you wear your mufti and bring a gold coin to donate to receive a poppy on Friday 24th April.  We are lucky to have some special guests come and visit us where we will begin some hockey skills training run by the Women's Black Stick's team during the term and then later we will also have some representatives from ASB to help teach us all about finances and the importance of saving our pocket money.  Later in the term we will be having the parent/teacher conferences (16th & 17th June) so make sure you keep an eye out for more information and notices about that.

Come in and check out our environment and see why we are called Team Seuss!

On Friday of week 4 (15th May) Team Seuss will be sharing in the running of the school asembly so we would like to invite all friends and family to come along and share in our celebration here.

We have an action packed term of learning ahead as well as continuing to learn our basic facts for maths, our phonics and alphabet for literacy, essential high frequency words for reading and keeping fit with our daily fitness and weekly physical education and health lessons.  We are also learning a lot about reusing, recycling and reducing for our sustainability topic.

Keep checking our blog to find out what we have been up to and what we are learning.  See you at the conferences. :-)

Cat Kincaid & Tracie Jones