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.

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.