Term 1 Week 9 2020

Today I am sending out Aroha to the families of students in Te Kakano. This is an unsettling time and I know that you will be doing all you can to keep your families safe and well. In the event of schools closing for a while the Ministry of Education have asked teachers to prepare material to support learning at home. 

Here is what is available for your children.

1. We have made up packs of 12 books for each student and you are most welcome to come in and pick these up if your children weren't at school today. 
2. Home Writing books for the 100 Writing Club were sent home last week. We encourage all students to practise writing their basic words and/or a sentence or two. 
3. Read stories together and talk about the meanings of interesting words.
4. Basic sight word learning - continue this please
5. Mathematics: Number games and counting practise [forwards and backwards to 10/20]; Fractions - quarters 1/4 and halves 1/2 - equal sharing of food.

Also I have been trying to make our Te Whare Kiwi website more functional. You should be able to access Reading Eggs, Math Seeds, Oxford Owl and Sunshine books online from this site. 

If there is difficulty with logins the username and passwords for Sunshine Books and Oxford Owl is Paparore. 

Please email me at robynd@paparore.school.nz if you have any other concerns or queries.

Look after one another, be kind and caring, be proud and passionate learners at home!!

The following is a link to a Junior School Presentation which may be useful.
How To Help Your Child At Home

Term 1 Week 8 2020

We Love Reading 🙌😀

We have individual book boxes and everyday we have time to make ourselves comfortable and read our favourites. We have learnt words, letter-sounds and strategies to help when we get stuck. 

Term 1 2020 Week 6

Our finished self portraits. We were really proud of our mahi.

More learning about fractions

We discussed, demonstrated, cut, created, explained and shared our learning with each other. As you can see our learning was fun and we know more about halves and quarters.

Rippa Rugby Skills Development

On Thursday Hannah Shalders from Northland Rugby helped us learn the skills we will need to play 'Rippa Rugby.' We had lots of fun practising passing and catching with a partner. We also had team relays and zigzagged between cones with the ball.