Welcome back to another busy and exciting term in Room 6.  The term has got off to a fantastic start and the children are so keen and eager to learn more!

This term’s focuses and highlights:

Topic: this term our topic is “Let’s Have a Party”.  This is linked to Enterprise.  We are looking at different parties that we could have and the things that we need to do before we have a party.  Linked into this topic will be money.  We will be looking at ways that we can make money or fundraise so that we can have a class party at the end of the term.

Writing: this term we will continue to write recounts each week with a focus on using descriptive language in the story.  We are also going to finish off writing some reports from last term and then do some procedure writing.

Reading: our focus this term is learning to retell a story in sequence and detail.

Maths: number will continue to be our focus this term with children learning their basic facts and numbers up to 100.  Children are grouped according to their knowledge base.

Sport: the first half of the term will be spent training for the X-Country which is held in week 5.  In the 2^nd half of the term we will focus on developing our fundamental skills such as hopping, skipping, jumping and leaping.

We will be making weekly visits to the Digital Media Centre where we will be learning how to send and receive emails and checking room 6’s daily notices, using the wikispace page the Miss Weedon has set up for the juniors and learning to use parts of Microsoft Powerpoint.  We will also be visiting the fantastic library at Te Rapa Primary School each week.

I look forward to another busy term ahead and hope to see you all at some point during the term.