Dear Parents and
Caregivers
Welcome to Room 6 for
2015.
In Room 6 we start
the year with a focus on Cybersafety where we will be learning to be
responsible digital citizens. We
currently have 18 windows based devices in the classroom as well as 12 Chromebooks
that are used on a daily basis. The
children will have access to their own Google Drive account so they are able to
complete learning tasks from home and school.
There will be a
strong focus on literacy and numeracy this term as well as formal testing such
as PATs and Probe.
The ‘Habits’ that we
will be focusing on this term are
Listening with Empathy and Understanding and Persisting.
Dates of upcoming
events and children’s learning will be posted here on the class blog. Make sure that you FOLLOW BY EMAIL to keep in touch .
Camp
Camp is taking place
in Week 6 of Term 4 at Camp Kaitawa near Lake Waikaremoana Cost is still being finalised but will be
around $200 per child. In the past some
parents have arranged automatic payments from the beginning of the year. More detailed newsletters and requests for
parent help will be out later.
Homework
Homework will consist
of:
Reading – daily – to
be recorded in the Reading Log.
Spelling – weekly – 10
words either topic or level based or from their writing.
Maths – number
knowledge from the School Number Ladder.
There may be
additional activities at times throughout the year which will be itemised in
their homework book.
Please check and
sign this daily.
Communication is
important to me and if you have any concerns or queries, email me or pop into
class to arrange a time for discussion.
Regards
David Barclay
david@haumoana.school.nz
