Parent/child - teacher interviews

Your child's school books will be placed in a labelled zip lock bag in the foyer for you to look through on Wednesday or Thursday evening before your interview.

This is a great way to share some of our work with families, especially if you can't make it in during the school day to see our daily writing.

Remember that in the junior school our school books are just one medium that we work with.

Shared Morning Tea on Tuesday July 1

Room 7 will celebrate the conclusion of a successful term with a shared morning tea on Tuesday July 1st.

Please bring along a plate with something to share when you arrive.

ideas: vegetable sticks, interesting small sandwiches, crackers, fruit kebabs, home baking

A reminder  will be included in this weeks class notice.

Reading over the holidays

 Looking for some holiday reading material?

The Elephant and Piggy series of books by Mo Williams are fantastic for beginning readers.

The collection of Dr Seuss books are repetitive and allow children to anticipate the language within the text through the use of rhythm and rhyme. 

The July holidays are a great time to visit a library and read.

Our letters to Baby Bear

Last week after reading "Blackberries" by Beverley Randell Room 7 wrote to Baby Bear.

Our letters have been published and will go home every day with our class leader.

In the pack is the early reader "Blackberries", depending on your child's reading ability they might need the reader read to them or it might be just right for them to read independently. 

Please spend time reading the published letters to Baby Bear as this reinforces your child's perception of themselves as a writer.

Our New Book, powered by team work

Book week has been so much fun. Today we participated in the Book Olympics. Room 7 answered 10 sets of questions about books, authors, characters and matched the correct quotes to the right book. We had our class leader, Thomas running to the hall to get our next set of questions. When we successfully completed all of the questions Room 7 was awarded the book, "Hush, Hush!" and this book will go home with the class leader each day for the next few weeks.

Parent teacher interviews

Please make a booking online. I am looking forward to meeting with parents on Wednesday July 2 or Thursday July 3.  
Please visit http://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and enter in the details mentioned in last weeks school notice or login details can be found through the school website. 

Remember that school finishes at 2pm on Thursday July 3. 

There are now only a few evening time slots available, get in quick if you need them

Our Book Character Day to Celebrate Book Week

Wow, what a fun day. Thank you to our wonderful families who helped us to look so amazing and get excited about BOOKS!

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Today at writing time we discussed and wrote how we felt when we got the DreamWorks/Countdown cards. 

We also talked about why Countdown gave out the cards?????
Matthew - "To give them to the children."
Thomas - "So the children will be happy."
Lily - "So people shop at Countdown."

We talked about who normally shops at Countdown supermarket or a different supermarket and if children asked their parents to shop at Countdown supermarket just to get the cards.

Some of our stories...
"I was excited when I got some cards." - Josef
"I was grumpy when I got double ups." - Tyler
"I was frustrated when I got double ups." - Gabby
"I was happy when I got a card." - Dakota
"I am excited because I have all the cards." - Lachie

We are playing lots of dice games in Room 7. 

• We are learning to quickly recognise number patterns on the dice.
• We are learning to count on from one dice, rather than count all the dots together. This strategy helps us to add the dots of the two dice quickly.

Another game involves rolling three dice together and seeing who can identify the highest number rolled.

Playdough needed for Wednesday

We need some playdough for an activity on Wednesday. Are you able to make a batch of playdough? We would love you to bring it along on Wednesday morning.

Thank you from Room 7

Dreamworks/Countdown trading cards

A reminder to leave the cards at home and we will hold a brief class trading session on Wednesday afternoon.

On Wednesday cards can be placed in Mrs. Robertson's office until we are ready. Remember to come on Wednesday with cards that can be swapped and a list of cards that are needed.

After Wednesday card collections need to stay at home.