Term 1, Week 7

Undeniably the highlight of last week was the excitement of Kids Can Cook on Wednesday – we loved making delicious crepes (and I’m sure many of us had a go on our own at the weekend :)). We also really enjoyed finishing off our buddy portraits (have you checked out our Room 3 gallery?), and working on some truly tricky maths – patterns to five.

This week in Room 3 we continue to practise our finger and spot patterns (dice patterns) to 5, as well as those tricky addition and subtraction “pairs” to five (0 and 5, 1 and 4, 2 and 3) – please keep up the practice at home, repetition is really helpful for us when it comes to memorising J This week in writing we are thinking about our playground problems – what is a conflict? How can we solve it? How can we share our own feelings, and listen to others? We are going to be beginning a music unit on listening and responding (moving!) to a beat, and we’re really excited to welcome Mrs Karki to Room 3 as our classroom teacher on Tuesday afternoon and on Thursday. Miss Driver will be on a Peer Mediation course with a couple of other Birchwood teachers, and on CRT.

Please remember that school finishes at 12.30pm on Wednesday due to an NZEI meeting which the Birchwood teachers are attending at Broadgreen Intermediate. Thank you for your understanding and support. Please collect children from the classroom/courtyard as you would usually do at this earlier time :)