All students are participating in this course to learn self managing skills for helping them cope with post earthquake stress.

IN using self portraits and paint to express ideas about myself.

Measurement and time.

Once per week Nadine and I take home the handwriting books at write a new letter or combination of letters in.

Students are learning to add and subtract by using a variety of part-whole strategies.

Numeracy Project Stage 3:

Students are working towards being able to "image" numbers to solve problems

Numeracy Project Stage 3:

Working at Stage 2 of the numeracy project
1. Ordering and sequencing to 20
2. Basic facts within 5 and with 5

This year on Wednesdays HB Ruru will be having some Make You Think sessions.

Today Jason shared the "magic bucket" experiment that he was given on the condition he doesn't tell us what is inside.

During this term we will be learning about shape.

This term HB Ruru are looking at special places and what they mean to us. We are threading our writing programme through this.

3 x weekly phonics lesson based on Yolanda Soryl's Phonics Programme working through stages 4

4 x weekly reading sessions to establish book knowledge and one to one matching.

Children will build on their basic reading skills and strategies during 4 x weekly guided reading sessions.

We are learning to read a text and find meaning contained within it.

Moving from Counting from one on Materials to Counting from one by Imaging

Learn the names of shapes.

This term we are beginning by looking at space. We will be following the inquiry process that HB Phoenix use - just an easier version.

Over term 1 we will participating in various drama games and activities in order to increase our confidence, co-operate with others, communicate, a

Each week children and LAs will have the opportunity to share with the home base something they have been inspired by.

Students reading at Turquoise are still developing fluency and expression, and still rely on decoding strategies frequently.

Students will read with their LA 4 times a week to develop strategies for decoding and comprehension.

Children will learn the beginning skills for reading a simple text.

Talk to Write
Purpose is to understand how a story is sequenced and to remember it and write the story.

Students at this level will be reading with fluency and expression, and with a increasing bank of sight words will be able to read accurately, only

Working at late stage 3 of the numeracy project: Addition and subtraction to 100 by imaging, whole numbers to 100, forwards and backwards in 1s, 2s

Count forwards from a given number in the range of 1 - 20
Count backwards from 20 - 1
Recognise and write all numerals 1 - 20

3-4 guided reading lessons per week where children will develop, extend and use skills and strategies to decode text with fluency.

3-4 guided reading lessons per week where children will develop, extend and use skills and strategies to decode text with fluency.

Work through Stage 5 of the Yolanda Soryl Phonics program.
Students will learn digraphs for beginnings and ends of words.

Check out our learning story for T4 PINS

Communicate and record the results of translations, reflections, and rotations on plane shapes,
(from NZ Curriculum)

In this Inquiry we will start off looking at all aspects of what makes us healthy. We will do this part as a HB.

In this PINs we will learn some basic techniques for painting with water colours.

We will look at what makes a healthy community and then design our Art Gallery to enhance our community.

Students will participate in a daily fitness game such as:

Students are working towards being able to part-whole to add and subtract.

Students are working towards being able to use a variety of part-whole strategies to add and subtract.

Students will read with their LA 4 times per week to gain confidence and build fluency and develop skills.

This term we are trialling a new approach to handwriting.

Students will read with their LA 3 times per week to develop fluency and build comprehension.

In stage 6 phonics we will be working through stage 6 of the Yolanda Soryl "Phonics Training Manual."

This group is currently working at Stage 4 addition and subtraction strategies (mid) and working towards achieving Stage 5.

Travel around outside of the school walls on a variety of adventures.

Students will learn the components of a formal, structured debate and participate in a full debate.

Children will learn to communicate and record the results of translations, reflections, and rotations on plane shapes.