Term 1, Week 11

Here we are racing into our final week of Term 1 with the holidays just ahead of us. We had a wonderful time with Harold last week and will continue to work on the books he left for us this week during reading time. We were also excited to take home our learning journals and reports, and to share our successes with you our whanau! Please remember to return your learning journal this week as we will soon begin updating them for term 2!

This week in Room 3 we’ll continue to read, write and practise our counting, and we will finish off our drawing unit with a little more practice outdoors (weather permitting!) capturing our lovely green environment at Birchwood school. We’ll be dancing each day in the hall with Room 1 and Mrs Eades, and we are also welcoming a new student to Room 3 who will be visiting this week before beginning term 2 with us after the holidays. We are also looking forward to our DVD afternoon on Thursday after our term of hard work!

A huge well done to all families on the awesome effort with the spelling words last week – I was incredibly impressed with the children’s commitment to their homework and their progress in learning :) There will be no set homework over the holidays, but I encourage you to continue to read story books daily, and to work on the next few words from the essential spelling lists as and when time and energy is available :) Counting up to and back from 100 is another great “on the go” activity to continue with :) But most importantly, I wish you all a wonderful and well deserved break!