Christmas time

Merry Christmas everyone
From Room 1.

Follow That Star

New Entrants

Welcome to Pela and Destiny who have joined us in Room 1.

Athletics Day

At the A and P Show

WELCOME

We welcome Joshua and Maia to Room 1 this week. It is great to have you with us. Have fun at school!

Daisy chains

A daisy here,

A daisy there,

Daisies, daisies everywhere

Pyjama Swimming

Swimming

My Weaving

My Weaving

My Weaving

My Weaving

My Weaving

WELCOME TO TERM 4

ROOM  1  NEWSLETTER  FOR  TERM  4,  2012.                                        

Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Term 4 is traditionally a busy term and this year we have much to do in only 9 weeks. As well as our class programme, Room 1 and 2 produce a Christmas Musical for you in the last week of term.

Our focus for Religious Education will be SAINTS, once we complete our work on Sacrament. This will be followed by ADVENT as we lead up to the Holy Season of Christmas.

Athletics is taking place in all classes this term as well as Rooms 1 and 2 continuing with PMP and Kiwisport. Thanks again to the parents and grandparents making PMP possible each week. We will also have swim week in week 3.

This term our school-wide focus is SYSTEMS and classes will be involved with Technology. Hopefully, later in the term, we can show you what we have been creating.  In Room 1, we will be focusing our learning on our reading of Instructional texts. We will follow and write instructions to make objects in Technology and Visual Art.

As is our tradition, we hope to attend the A&P Show on 15th November and as usual we rely heavily upon parent help in order to make this possible (not suitable for preschoolers).Thanks to the Parents and Friends for subsidizing this trip/ bus.

Our Little Bird Tale

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Thank You

Double-Decker Bus Trip

Hasn't anybody seen my mouse?

When I Was One

Poetry competition. Well Done Everyone!

 FIRST was Bethlehem.

 SECOND was Charlotte. P

THIRD were Salu and Levi.

Our SPRING Assembly

We welcomed everyone to assembly.

 We sang about stars, rainbows, mountains and daffodils.

 We had a reading about our beautiful world.

 We had prayers about God's creation.

We sang about all sorts of animals.

KITES

We read a book about "The Flying Fish" and we followed the instructions to make our kites. They flew around in the wind when we ran fast.
by Charlotte, Max and Levi.

The Mask Parade

We read this book and then created our masks. We think we look pretty frightening. Do you think so? Behind the masks are Ashlyn, Amy Marquees and Bethlehem.

New Sign

 

 

We have a new sign at the gate. We can see Charlotte and Bethlehem in it. Don't they look happy!

ATHLETES at the OLYMPICS

POOSH Afternoon Tea

 We had sandwiches, scones, pies and biscuits.

 We had Victoria sponge.

We had beautiful manners and behaved like real ladies and gentlemen. We invited Pauline, Miss Grice and Mr C. We had a "spiffing "time.

WHERO

Room 1 dressed in whero and we ate red jelly and ice cream. YUM!

New Students in Room 1

 My name is Atalaita but you can call me Ata.

 My name is Riantiti but you can call me Rian.

My name is Jasinta and I started school yesterday.

Room 1 Newsletter for Term 3

Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Welcome back to Term 3 when, hopefully, we are heading into warmer Spring weather.

Our focus is on COMMUNICATION- written, spoken and visual. With the Olympics about to begin, we will first look at the country where they are to be held to discover some of the history and features of England. As we follow our Kiwi athletes and others, our emphasis will be on the Olympic values that we hope to see in evidence. By the end of the Games, I hope that we will be able to relate these values to ourselves and write some values for us to follow at St Anne’s.

The God strand continues in Religious Education, followed by the Church strand. Hopefully, we will see Father Dan visiting us again.

In the last 3 weeks of the term, we will be completing “Keeping Ourselves Safe”. Watch the school newsletter for information on this programme.

An exciting initiative this term is the start of PMP. Thank you to those adults who have generously offered their time each week to make this programme possible. I am sure that the children will be telling you all about it once we get underway.

REMEMBER to watch the school newsletter for other upcoming events- St Anne’s feast day, Kapahaka Festival.

If you have any questions or can add to our learning, please call in to see me.

Cathy French

ROOM 1 SINGS TO YOU.

OUR ASSEMBLY

 We had a lovely assembly last Friday and we sang so well. We also sang our songs at Mass and Father Dan told us we were the best singers in the school!

OUR SEWING

We made material donuts by sewing around circles and gathering them up. Next we threaded them on a string. We think our caterpillar is wonderful. We named him STITCH!

Our Identity Quilt

We have hung our school mural in the Mission Centre. It has got work from everyone about our IDENTITY. Room 1 each made a kiwi jandal. Can you spot them?

Ashlyn's Chocolate Story.

The Great Big Block of Chocolate.

Room 1 class

We have 3 new people in our room now. Welcome to Charlotte P, Charlotte L and Austin.

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 2

Room 1 Newsletter for Term 2, 2012

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome back to another busy term. The weather now has a truly Autumn feel and the warm, still days have been great. I hope you were able to get outside and enjoy them. As we head into Winter, remember that the children are entitled to a free flu injection to help protect us all from an outbreak of flu.

In Religious Education, we start this term with Easter and continue on into the HOLY SPIRIT strand.

Over the first 2 weeks we will learn about Cybersafety focussing on some important messages for the children when they use technology such as the internet. I will send you the online programme that we are using at the end of our study so that you can reinforce these important messages with your child.

Our learning for Term 2 revolves around a school focus on SUSTAINABILITY within the Science Learning Area. In Room 1 , we will focus on INSECTS and their important role in our world. This in turn will see us learning how to write Information Reports relating to Insects.

Our Arts focus is Dance and we will be identifying Pathways as we learn about the fable of “The Cicada and the Ant”. We will create some interesting movements.

Our P.E. also follows the Pathways theme. This term we will be having Kiwi Sport every Friday, much to the children’s delight!

THINKING skills will be to the fore this term, with students asking and answering questions with thought and purpose- I hope!!

Thank you to those parents who helped out with all our activities last term, including the interesting and delicious cultural shared lunch. We hope to have interesting events this term but our planned Museum trip is already on hold with the shutting of the Museum due to earthquake damage. I will have to think again!

Please come in if you have any questions or ideas to help with our Insects.

Cathy French

"That We Might Live". We took part in our WONDERFUL school production.

We told everyone that Easter is NOT really about Bunnies and Chocolate. It is about JESUS.

We sang all about PALM SUNDAY.

Our Assembly

We told everyone about all the different cultures in Room 1.

We sang about our faces.

We said our poem "MY JANDAL"

Ashlyn received an award for her work helping her neighbour.