In this short Inquiry cycle, (2 weeks) students will conduct some simple scientific experiments using the Scientific Method.

Students will participate in swimming lessons once a week through term 1, at Te Hapua Halswell Pool.

4 x weekly phonics lessons based on Yolanda Sorryl's Phonics Programme

4 x weekly phonics lesson based on Yolanda Soryl's Phonics Programme

Building an understanding of music and it's technical aspects such as beat, rhythm, melody and dynamics (loud, soft etc).

We will work at retelling the story of King Midas and the Golden Touch, using the storytelling process.

We will begin the year with a focus on place value and basic facts, where children will learn and practice these through lessons and application.

We will begin the year with a focus on place value and basic facts, where children will learn and practice these through lessons and application.

This year we are planning to focus on different genres for writing so children can link their writing with their inquiries.

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

Children will use skills and strategies learnt to decode text with fluency during 4 x weekly instructional reading sessions.

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

During the first week at school we will be looking at our school's 5 Core Values, gaining understanding and working out how we can use these core v

To Create and use appropriate units and devices to measure length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), and partition and/or combine like meas

Students will work with an author to further develop their writing skills.

A focus on diversity in writing.

Twice weekly guided reading sessions to build on basic strategies for decoding and comprehension of text using Sharp Reading program.

We will collaboratively go through the storytelling process and based on plot, setting and characters. then engage in three activities

This term we will focus on reminding ourselves about the Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery core values through Core Values play on Friday afternoons.

Students will take part in workshops at least three times a week.

To work with students through guided reading to learn comprehension and retell ability of texts.

To work with students through guided reading to learn comprehension and retell ability of texts.

At least 3X weekly guided reading sessions.

Building an understanding of music and it's technical aspects such as beat, rhythm, melody and dynamics (loud, soft etc).

This term HB Kiwi will be focussing on how to write instructions.

Moving from Counting from one by Imaging (imagining) to Advanced Counting (stage 3-4).

Working through stage 4: Advanced Counting; concentrating on working with numbers up to 100.

2 x weekly handwriting sessions based on Casey the Caterpillar Handwriting Programme for printed letters.

2 x weekly phonics lessons based on Yolanda Sorryl's Phonics Programme as well as one must-do activity per week and an iPad session.

3 x weekly phonics lesson based on Yolanda Soryl's Phonics Programme

We will be reading 4 x weekly to establish book knowledge and reading processes.

Children will use skills and strategies learnt to decode text with fluency.

They will learn to ask and answer questions about the text.

Moving from emergent maths to one-to-one counting.

The home base will have a weekly 30 minute session with Mary learning music and singing.

Libby's group are focussing on correct formation, size and shape of letters.

Work through the end of Stage 6 and the beginning of Stage 7 of the Yolanda Soryl Phonics program.

In this programme we will be learning about:

Use a range of counting, grouping, and equal-sharing strategies with whole numbers and fractions.

In this unit we will be posing and answering "Big Questions" to from the basis for our writing programme.

Green guided reading texts include some contexts and settings that may be outside students’ direct experience but can be easily related to it.

Turquoise guided reading texts include less familiar themes, and although settings and contexts may be outside the students’ prior knowledge, they

Twice weekly guided reading sessions to build on basic strategies for decoding and comprehension of text using Sharp Reading program.

To work with students through guided reading to learn comprehension and retell ability of texts.

We will be reading 3 x weekly to establish book knowledge and reading processes.

Green guided reading texts include some contexts and settings that may be outside students’ direct experience but can be easily related to it.

This integrated literacy unit uses a story written in the form of a play as the starting point for a number of oral and written language manipulati

This integrated literacy unit uses a story written in the form of a play as the starting point for a number of oral and written language manipulati

Students will take part in a series of workshops, as below:

Students will take part in a series of workshops, as below:

We are a group who are passionate about animals of all kinds every where - be they elephants, sharks, pangolin, tigers or geckos - and and how hu