Martus and Emily are going to fundraise for the Salvation Army and raise awareness about homelessness.

Our plan is to be teachers of Lego Mindstorms to younger students at Kirwee Model School.

I will organise a Story writing competition for people from our community to enter.

To create some novelty toys and blankets to donate to the SPCA.

To do this I need to:

Ben and Josh will work together to create a tournament for other students to join.

The early writers are able to write their alphabet and some high frequency words, they are able to use their phonics skills to sound out words they

This term we will all be doing individual Inquiry. We would like the children to all complete and present an inquiry, of their choice.

We will begin the term with revision of addition and subtraction up to 6 digits, with and without compensation.

This course is run by Music Mary, learning about music through enjoyment and by doing, with a focus on:
Rhythm and movement.

This term we will be focussing on the Māori World through the arts, storytelling, maths and trips within the community.

Stage 1 of the numeracy project: moving from one-to-one counting to counting from one on materials.

Working at stage 3 of the Numeracy Project: moving from counting from one by imaging to Advanced Counting.

As part of our writing focus this term we will revisit different genres to support writing for Inquiry.

Keeping Ourselves Safe Aims:

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

We are learning to read a text and find meaning contained within it.
We will use the Sharp Reading programme ideas.

4 x weekly guided reading sessions to build on basic strategies for decoding and understanding text.

Green Reading Skills:

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

Red reading Skills:

In weeks 9 and 10 we will be looking at and celebrating books.
We will read, listen and act out stories.

Work through Stage 6 of the Yolanda Soryl Phonics program.
Students will learn middle long vowel sounds.

Working at stage 3 of the Numeracy Project: moving from counting from one by imaging to Advanced Counting.

Stage 1 of the numeracy project: moving from one-to-one counting to counting from one on materials.

Our community has a need to focus on narrative writing as this area needs development.

4 x weekly guided reading sessions to build on basic strategies for decoding and understanding text.

Green Reading Skills:

This group are focussing on slope, flicks and linking letters.

Stage 6 maths group will attend workshops 4x per week.

Students will work in small groups with their LA 3 times per week, to learn the knowledge and strategies below.

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

We are learning to read a text and find meaning contained within it. We will use the ITTM (I Think That Means) strategy.

At least 3X weekly guided reading sessions plus one independent.

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.