What has Team Seuss been up to this week?

We have been...

• We had a superhero breakfast at school and we all dressed up as super heroes.
• Reading the big book windy day about a king who loses his crown
• Counting backwards and forwards in maths
• Doing the jolly phonics sounds l, b, f, ai and j
•  reading the poem humpty Dumpty
• Singing and dancing to our under the sea song.
• Welcoming our new children Phoenix and Alexander
• Making Oobleck and writing about it.
• Making jelly fish, octopus and CD fish in visual art
• Practicing under arm throwing with bean bags.
• Writing using describing words.

What has Team Suess been up to this week?

We have been 

• writing about snowmen in summer and animals under the sea. 
• learning word families for pig and the phonic sounds of g,o,u,l
• to the show Maui and the sun. Maui was trying to slow the sun down. Maui had to take his time and work together with others.
• to see Ronald McDonald at the road show and we learnt how to be safe around the road- STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN!
• counting forwards and backwards from 20, skip counting, playing buzz
• reading bad luck duck.
• learning the poem hickory dickory dock and we made mice.
• learning to dance to under the sea.
• learning what sad and tired in Maori means- pouri and ngenge.
• reading books and learning words like and, up, is, I, that, in. 

We welcome Alexander and Phoneix for there final visit and Manaiah started in Team Suess this week. 

What have we been up to this week?

We had a great week in Team Seuss!  This is what happened... 

       - Our buddy class taught us a new Go noodle activity called ‘Hey Joe.’

       - We listened to a song and then we all created a new story using our describing words about winter.

       - We read a new big book called Shoo Fly.

       - Our Jolly Phonics sounds were m,d, h, e.

       - We learnt rhyming words that rhyme with "en".

       - We went for a walk to Redwood Library and we decorated CDs for wearable arts.

       - In PE we played skittles, crazy tag and learnt how to under arm throw.

       - Shyla and Maddie finished their alphabet charts. 

       - Te Rau now knows all of her letters and all of her sounds. 

       - Deana stayed until lunch time and played in the playground.

      This week we were really lucky as we had Miss Gardyne and Miss Parish teaching us.  We also had 3 new students visit us on Friday - Phoenix, Manaiah and Alex.  We can't wait for them to start school and be part of our team.  

What have we been up to this week?

This week, Team Seuss have been doing lots of fun, exciting learning.  Here are some of the things we have learnt this week...

- Making beautiful, colourful elephants
- Our buddy class taught us a new song which also includes counting in Maori
- Caitlen taught us a new game to play called "Mr Brown is out of town"
- We did jump jam with the whole school
- We went to our assembly run by Room 4 and Levi got our class certificate for his awesome learning
- Xavier and Mrs Alabaster made rice bubble cake and then we all got to try some
- We all created a new story this week about a Dad who lost his favourite toy in the dark forest. These    are published up on the wall for everyone to come and see
- We read a new big book called "The Giant's Ice Cream" and the giant got stuck in the door because    he ate too much ice cream
- Our jolly phonics letters we learnt were c/k, e, b and f
- We did PE and played octopus and space invaders

This week we welcomed Musab into Team Seuss.  We also welcomed Miss Parish and Miss Gardyne who will be in our class for the next 5 weeks.

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