Term 3 Week 2

WEEK 2 TERM 3.

Cook Island Language Week

http://www.mpp.govt.nz/language-culture-and-identity/pacific-language-weeks/cook-islands-language-week/

Reading Logs

Reading logs are due back by Wednesday this week.  We want ALL Manuka kids to return a reading log.  Don't panic about finding the reading log sheet, any piece of paper will do - just write your name and room number, the titles of books you read during the holidays (and the first week back), get a big person to sign it and bring it in.  If you didn't read a book, maybe you read some instructions for a game, a recipe, song lyrics, prayers or bible stories,... If you read it, write it on the list. 

Bake Sale

We are still fundraising for our trip to the zoo. We're getting closer and closer.  This time we thought we might try a bake sale. We would like donations of cakes, biscuits and slices to sell on Tuesday, pretty please.  Each piece will be sold for $1 or $2 and will get us even closer to our epic trip.  Thanks heaps for your support.

MONDAY 30TH JULY

TUESDAY 31ST JULY

STEAM Extravaganza Day - we have seniors coming to help us with an awesome coding activity.

10.30 am Manuka’s Cake Stall

WEDNESDAY 1ST AUGUST.

THURSDAY 2ND AUGUST

8.45am Singing

2.05pm Kapa Haka

3.15pm Pasifika Homework Club

FRIDAY 3RD AUGUST

2.05pm  Assembly and PTA Raffle drawn

Make sure you say Happy Birthday to Mrs Dunkley.  She's turning 21 today.  Shhh!

Hands up

Yesterday evening a few of us teachers were lucky enough to go on a course. One of the things they suggested was trying to get the children to join in a discussion without putting their hands up.

Room 6 took on the challenge and succeeded with flying colours. We thought about some of the things we needed to do. 

One was to listen carefully to others ideas. Wait until people had finished speaking before we could have our say and thirdly if anyone else tried to speak at the same time as us we should work it out who,could go first.

We all enjoyed it so much that we are going to try it again tomorrow. We celebrated with a “wave your hands in the air” song.

Super job Room 6

Making boats-Exploration

As part of our concept ‘Exploration’ we are reading books and poems about Pirates. One of the things we have been aiming to do in Play based learning is to make a Pirate boat that can float. The children are trying to come up with a plan and use this to create their boat which needs to float and be waterproof. Look at the different things some of your children have created. 

GO4it

Today was our first session of Go4it

Daniel Fisher is our new person to run the program. He has some rules for us.

Rule 1 shoving respect

Rule 2 keeping safe

Rule 3 ready for learning

Rule 4 have fun

Welcome back

what a lovely surprise yesterday morning! Alana and Fynn presented me with some cookies and a beautiful welcome back card. Great to be back!

odd and even numbers

Yesterday we were thinking about odd and even numbers. No one knew how to find out if a number was odd or even. We talked about how to work it out. One way is to look at the last number e.g. 325 you would look at the 5. Put 5 on your fingers and try to pair your fingers up. If one hasn’t got a partner it’s odd. If everyone has a partner the number is even. Keep working on finding odd and even numbers. 

week 1 Term 3

WEEK 1 TERM 3.

MONDAY 23rd JULY

TUESDAY 24TH JULY

WEDNESDAY 25TH JULY.

THURSDAY 26TH JULY

8.45am School Singing

3-4pm Homework club room 15

FRIDAY 27TH  JULY

2.05pm Assembly:

Three way student/Parent/Teacher Conferences

Three Way Student/Parent/Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Wednesday 4 July and Thursday 5 July for our Year 0-2 classes.  To book an interview time please go to:

 

https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/book/step1?z=n6twvd

 

OR go to schoolinterviews.co.nz and the code to use is sktnk

Wednesday - bookings can be made from 3.15 to 6.10

Thursday - bookings can be made from 3.15 to 4.55

 

Perseverance-one of our values

we have been discussing Perseverance. Deacon Mike came in and told us stories about how he persevered in different ways. Also he told us the story of Daniel and the lions. We then told each other about times when we had persevered. Everyone completed a spinner of Daniel and the lions. They look amazing Room 6!

Self editing poems

Room 6 were working in pairs to self edit their poems. Everyone wrote a poem yesterday about their chosen topic. Each person is using their marking strip to fix up their work. Then their Partners will read through their buddies work to make sure they have included all the items on their strip. Great cooperation from everyone today-well done!