Te Rapa Primary

Welcome to Room 6

Term 2, 2022

Inquiry Learning:  This term children will ‘inquire’ about their school community and Matariki by exploring the Learning Assets (Researcher, Thinker, Collaborator, Self Manager, Communicator), learning how to ask ‘wondering’ questions, and talk about how they learn.  This will tie in with our school values: HEART (Honesty, Excellence, Aroha, Respect and Teamwork).

Literacy, Oral Language, Reading and Writing: Inquiry learning will be integrated into the Literacy programme with the children learning to ask 'wondering' questions and talk about topics that are covered in the big books, poems and the weekly school wide quiz.

Writing: The focus this term will continue to be on formulating and writing short and long sentences that make sense and are correctly structured. The children will also work on punctuating sentences correctly. 'I see, I think and I wonder' writing will continue to be used in literacy and Inquiry learning. They will continue to write descriptions of people, places and things and recounts about personal experiences.  

Handwriting: The Casey Caterpillar writing programme will continue to be used. The story of Casey Caterpillar will be re-shared with the children to reinforce the learning of the correct formation of letters. Lower and upper case letters and numbers will continue to be a focus. 

Phonics: The Yolanda Soryl phonics programme will continue to be used. The children will work at an appropriate Stage for themselves and will then progressively work up through the graduated stages. The focus will be on transferring their knowledge of letter sounds into reading and writing. The children will continue to work through blends and digraphs. Word families will also be covered this term.

Maths:  Most children will work through the Prime 1A Programme and a few children will work through Prime 1B Programme. The Maths strands covered will be Number, Geometry and Measurement. Other resources will be incorporated to support the maths teaching and learning programme. The children will continue to learn more Maths games and use equipment to support the learning and coverage in class.   

Health/P.E: This term the P.E focus will be fundamental skills - skipping, balancing, jumping, throwing, catching and striking. The Health focus will be Bully Free Week (Week 3) and the Get Firewise programme.  During Bully Free week students will participate in discussions and scenarios and talk about the difference between ‘bullying’ and being ‘mean’. The Get Firewise programme teaches the children what they need to know and how to behave so that they can stay fire safe and escape from a burning building.

Maori: Nga Ahuatanga (Feelings) and Matariki (Maori New Year) will be covered. Matariki is the Maori name for the cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades. It occurs near the end of June or beginning of July and it symbolises the start of a new year. The children will celebrate Matariki at school in a fun and purposeful way at school.  

Technology/Digital Fluency: The children will continue to use the iPads and apps within the classroom programme. We will be doing unplugged activities focusing on directional language using Beebots.