Welcome to Room 6 2017!

Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Namaste, Sata srī akāla, Ni hao, Malo, Hello!


Topic
Our topic this term, as part of 'Being a New Zealander,' is studying one of the Pacific Islands. The Kea Team are learning about the Pacific Island Fiji. We are learning some Māori waiata as well as a Fijian song called Chuluchululu.

In week 10 we are going to have a Pasifika Showcase where all whanau from home can come and see us perform these waiata and some dancing. 


Values
Papatoetoe Central School's school wide focus for this term is being polite, considerate and sensible. This is otherwise known as being PCS. When a student is displaying these qualities it means being:

Polite - Using our manners i.e. please, thank you

Considerate - being aware of others and listening

Sensible - making good choices in our behavior and for our learning

Spelling books
You will notice that there is green and yellow highlighter in students notebooks. Green means letters and words that your child understands at school. Please focus on yellow highlighted letters with students first. When they know letters, work on each spelling list per week. If students know all of the spelling words in their book I will give them a new list on the Monday. For this reason, usually spelling books won't go home over the weekend. So it might be useful to copy the reading eggs password onto some paper at home so students can use reading eggs over the weekend too.

Reading Eggs

This is a wonderful program for year one students at PCS to develop their reading skills. Your child's reading eggs login and password is in the front cover of their pink notebook. Please help teach your child to log in by themselves so that they can do this during class. Each student has a login and it is entirely catered to the student's ability - so must be completed by them only. You can sit with them on the iPad or computer and help them to understand how to play by helping them to sound out the first few words or letters. They are very capable at this age to do the rest on their own and we encourage them to do that at school.