Dear
Parents and Caregivers,
It
is great for me to be here team teaching your children
with
Sharon McNish ensuring they have an enjoyable and rewarding year. I will be teaching Monday-Wednesday and
Sharon Thursday and Friday.
We
look forward to getting to know those of you we have not met over the next few
weeks and continuing the parent teacher relationship created with many of you
last year!!
We
look forward to teaching but also learning from your children as the year progresses.
We find it very worthwhile and exciting to see children develop their skills
and advance on their learning journey. As this journey is a shared partnership
between home and school we am very happy to answer any queries or talk over any
thing you would like to share with me about your child. However, it is a good
idea to make a time so we are not interrupted and we can give you our full
attention, this does not always happen before or after school. We can be
reached at amy@stmaryshoki.school.nz
and sharonm@stmaryshoki.school.nz
Our
aim for all the children in the class is to develop independence – please help
by:
Encouraging
your child to unpack their own bag each day when they arrive and be prepared
for each day with their kiwi pack and all its necessary contents.
Having
the children at school early enough to have time to play before the 9am bell
rings. This is such a good opportunity to calmly settle into the school day and
develop friendships with their peers.
They
also need time to put their drink bottle on the table provided and put their kiwi
pack in their desk.
A
few helpful reminders and notes about our classroom this term:
A reading
book will come from Monday to Thursday. Sometimes children will have the same
book depending on what we are doing in class and timeframes for that day. The
children will keep all the books they read for the week in their book bag and
put in the pink basket when they arrive at school on Friday morning. Please
read the new book and one/some of the others each night, ensuring the reading
notebook is filled in. Rereading books is a vital way of practicing reading
strategies and skills. At the weekend a poem will be sent home in their school
book which will need to be returned to school on Monday, at times there may be
other homework sent home depending on what is happening in class. There may
also be a bag containing some sight words to be learned plus their spelling
book these both support their reading development. Group reading will begin on
week 3. Children
will have spelling words to learn each week. These will be based on words from the
essential lists, their own writing and/or the basic sight words. Spelling will
begin later in the term.
Library change day is Wednesday. Please ensure your child has their book to exchange on this day.
Library change day is Wednesday. Please ensure your child has their book to exchange on this day.
This
year we will send a class note home only when necessary.
As
mentioned, we would appreciate the children being at school and ready for the
day before the 9am bell. We start the day with a
class prayer and go over the daily time table which is a very important part of
our day together. Also, at the end of the day it would be helpful if you could
stay outside until 3pm when students line up outside ready for hometime. It can
be disruptive having people coming in and out.
Show and Tell News – this will be held on Thursdays. The students are
allowed to bring items to share on this day based on a roster that will be provided.
This term swimming will begin week 1 on Tuesday the 11th
of February.
Please
let me know asap (especially for swimming) if you are available for parent help
it would be greatly appreciated.
We are sending
home books etc to be named, labelled and covered (if you wish) to be returned
to school on Friday.
The books are
as follows:
3B1 – Spelling
3B1 – Alphabet
Book
JWB – Handwriting
SBKA4 - Writing
Fun Doing
Maths- Maths
Clever Kiwi
Company- RE
The Big Book –
Topic
The Big Book -
Poetry
The Really
Useful Big Book – Reading
Clear File – Name
Only
Clear File –
Name Only
Pencils x 2 -
Name Only
Glue Stick -
Name Only
Reading Diary –
Name Only
Total Cost for
pack will be invoiced to you by Steph.
Kind Regards,
Amy Teen and
Sharon McNish
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