Thorrington Year 2 2019: Week 4 update

Kia Ora whānau

Well- that was another busy week that passed in a blur! But it was a happy one and the children are settled and enjoying all their learning and activities. We are now pretty established in our morning routines of Reading, Writing and Maths. In Week 4 we are starting our full collaborative teaching of Maths and Writing as well as Reading, so your child maybe with a different teacher for each of these.
We aim to rotate our teaching groups for all subjects in the last week of each term so that all children will get a chance to learn and interact with each teacher in the different subject areas. At the same time, this allows a block of 8-9 continuous weeks with the same teacher, so that a high degree of rapport and trust can be developed in each group. This depth of knowledge and information will then be shared with the next teacher.

What’s On Next Week in Year Two: Week 4

Wednesday 26th February- Coding Club 3.15-4p.m HB12

Thursday 27 February – Library day

Friday 28 February – Timatanga Assembly 11.50 in the school hall. ** Please note the earlier start time.

Keeping Ourselves Safe programme

This programme enables children and young people to learn and apply a range of safety skills that they can use when interacting with others. More information can be found at the Keeping Ourselves Safe website here. All Timatanga Homebases will be working through this programme in weeks 5, 6 and 7 alongside our local community police office, Constable Ross.

We are having a parent information session run by Ross on Tuesday 3rd March at 2.15p.m in the school staffroom. If you would like to attend this- please RSVP to the office.

K.O.S Programme

Reading: We have had a couple of queries about " what do we do with our reading books?" We would love your child to keep all their instructional reading books in their Reading folder for the whole week. We will write the name of the book that has been read that day in your child's notebook. This allows them some browsing material for over the week and rereading texts is a brilliant way of increasing fluency. Your reading teacher will empty your folder each Monday.

Puzzles: Thank you to those families who have donated some puzzles to us- we would love some more!

Maths

We have been learning all about Statistics and learning what information we can get from tally marks, bar graphs and pie charts. Last week we went and counted all the traffic going past our school and graphed all the different results. We had great fun while we were learning!