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.

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

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