Monday 5th
May
Term Two
Welcome parents,
whānau and caregivers back to the start of term. Hopefully both your and child
have had a relaxing Easter holiday. I am very excited to get back into the
swing of things and continue the terrific progress with your child in Room 6.
This Term Trish Smith will be teaching Room 6 in the morning between 9.00 a.m.
to 9.30 a.m. During this time I will be working with a select group of students
on an accelerating learning course in Mathematics. This term my personal focus
is to continue to help students take responsibility and develop personal
independence with their learning at school and at home. It is important that
your child is supported with their learning at home, please make sure you are
actively involved and monitoring homework and reading at home.
What’s happening this term in Room 6
Topic
This term our
topic is diversity in Food. Children will be learning about how changes can be
permanent or temporary with food. Why do we eat what we eat? Why is food
important in different cultures? There will be lots of opportunities for hands
on learning and cooking around this unit.
Mathematics and English
Our writing
focus for term two is writing to instruct. Students will be learning how to
construct a procedural text about recipes and experiments. In Mathematics
children will continue learning addition and subtraction problems to solve
equations. We are also going to learn about transformation for geometry. Then
we will move onto learning about patterns and relationships for algebra for the
second half of the term.
Homework
Homework will
begin again next week. Students will receive a homework sheet each Monday and
bring it back to class on Friday completed. Please try your best to complete
these set activities during the week nights. It will consist of recording
reading, spelling that should happen every night and an inquiry question about
learning happening in the class.
Classroom Blog
Room 6 has a
classroom blog that can be accessed from our school website. There are multiple
online education activities which children can access. The blog is updated
throughout the week with pictures and activities.
Support
Room 6 has an
open door policy, which means you are welcome to come in at any time you like.
If you have any concerns or would like to help out please come contact me at
school or via email.
Thank you
Mr Hill
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