Room 9 - Mrs Tania Wood
 

Welcome back to school! Over the first few weeks of  term 1 we will be all getting to know each other and settling into our classroom routines.

Our topics this term are “Me and My Friends” and “Wild Animals in Zoo Enclosures”. We will be learning about how all living things need certain things to stay alive and how they are suited to their particular environments. We will be looking at how Hamilton Zoo has created enclosures to suit the different needs of different animals. For the Technology aspect of this study, we will design an enrichment toy for a Cheetah, Wild Dog or Giraffe at the Hamilton Zoo.

In mathematics we will be learning a lot about place value. We will be also focusing on addition and subtraction and the speed and accuracy that we recall basic facts.

For writing we are thinking about past experiences we have had and are learning to write a recount.  We are focusing on sequencing our ideas, including important information and making our recounts interesting by including details. We are also going to some poetic writing related to “Me and My Friends” and “Wild Animals in Zoo Enclosures”.

In visual art we will be sketching and painting our portraits, taking photos with a digital camera and creating a diorama of a zoo enclosure.

We will be swimming every day! So make sure you remember your swimming gear and to name all of your belongings.

I am looking forward to another awesome year at Te Rapa! Feel free to pop in and see me or any of the work we have been doing before or afterschool!

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