Sunday 24 September 2017

Week 10 - Term 3

Culture Festival Week!!


The last week of Term 3 is going to be celebrated with our Culture Festival! Children all across the school in many different groups have been working hard to show of their talents. 

Important information for the week - 

Tuesday - Run through in the hall for all performers
Wednesday - Full dress rehearsal; all non-performers make up the audience for this
Thursday - Matinee performance at 1 pm and evening performance at 6.30pm

Tickets: are $2/person/seat and are available in the library Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday or until sold out. 


On the night

Year 2 performers (that's us) go to B1 at 6pm

Please deliver your performer to the classroom no later than 6 pm. They may bring snacks and something to occupy themselves with, if they wish (no devices).
However, there will be movies on and drawing things in the rooms.


After the Year 2 performance, students will be escorted to L Block to join their Peaches and Pickles Groups

Drama: L3

Hip Hop: L2
Junior Choir L5


What to wear...
Year 2 item - Some children will be wearing a costume from the Sunflower show. These children know who they are. All other children need to wear plain bright coloured clothes please.

Peaches & Pickles Items - Hopefully you should have received an email from Peaches and Pickles regarding outfits for each group. Please let me know if you haven't and I will forward on to you. Children will be able to get changed in their holding room after they have performed their first item. Please make sure everything is clearly named - name and classroom. 

Please bring these outfits to school tomorrow (Tuesday) or Wednesday at the latest. 

Feel free to get in touch with me if you're unsure of anything - 
kmaxwell-brown@wgp.school.nz 

Thanks, 
Kendall

Tuesday 12 September 2017

Week 8 - Term 3

Motat
Check out our Motat photos here. We had such a fabulous time there. We were very lucky that the rain held off for most parts of the day. Thank you again to our parent helpers and to all children in A2 for such a tremendous day. Wasn't life so different 100 years ago!




This week is Te Reo Māori Language Week. We are learning to use more Māori kupu (words) and phrases like - He aha tenei? (What is this?)
Our Big Book story this week is called Tamure and the Taniwha. 

There are lots of Māori myths and legend stories availble on Youtube. Check out the link below to view the stores. 


Word Word & Handwriting 

Our sounds this week to learn are the long o (oa, oe, ow, o-e, o) and long u (ue, u-e, ew) 

For handwriting this week we are practising the formation of the letters l, t, i, j. 

Writing

Our writing is integrated with our Big Book - focusing on how a narrative has a Problem and Solution.
Remember to come check out the fantastic Grandma McGarvey writing. 

Maths
This week for maths we are using skip counting, repeated addition and our times tables for problem solving.


Have a lovely week A2 whanau

Miss M :) 




















Monday 4 September 2017

Week 7 Term 3

Motat Trip
On Wednesday we head off to Motat to learn about how life and houses have changed in Auckland. This ties into our 'Movement' inquiry for the term.
Please make sure your child has
- A packed lunch
- A drink bottle
-Full school uniform - including shoes
- A rain coat or jumper

Thank you to all of our wonderful parents who offered to help out on the trip. Unfortunately we couldn't take everyone.


Handwriting
This week we are focus on forming our lowercase letters - r, n, m, h, k

Word work 
We are focusing on the /ow/ (wow) /ou/ (house) sounds and /oy/ (toy) /oi/ (coin) sounds.


Writing
A2 are really into McGarvey books at the moment. We are in the middle of publishing some fantastic writing retelling the story Grandma McGarvey Goes to Sea.



Bikes
From next week A2 and B1 will be buddying up to use the bikes. It would be great if we had some children bring their own bikes to school on Mondays so there's enough bikes for all.


Have a lovely week, 
Miss M