Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Discovery!

Each morning the children participate in "Discovery".
This is a learning activity that involves the children practising and consolidating their skills and knowledge, as well as exploring the world around them. In addition to this we focus on different "Key Competencies". These are the part of the New Zealand Curriculum which involve Thinking, Relating to Others, Understanding Symbols and Text, Managing Self, Participating with Others.
Later in the term we will reduce the number of sessions we have, but will retain this valuable (and popular!) part of the learning week.


Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Sunny Days

We are all enjoying the sunshine and have been doing lots of fun and new learning in The Landing.
For the next few weeks we are learning about our new learning environment and what we need to do to be a learner.  Have a look at the Yetis we created with some older buddies. These help remind us that even although the learning may be new and a little tricky we always say "We can't do .........yet".

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Welcome to 2017!

We have had a great start to the year and are working busily and happily in The Landing (Rooms 9 and 10).
We have been busy reading books, counting and learning the school HEART values.
We will continue to work collaboratively and over the next few days we will let you know your child's home room. This will be the room they have their tote tray in and come into in the morning for the first part of they day.