Being A Learner: Our Inquiry Celebration - A Grandparents Afternoon Tea

Today we had our Kakano Inquiry Celebration which was a Grandparents Afternoon Tea.  The students have been learning about their families and discussing things that make their family special.  

Today each class made an afternoon tea item which was shared across the other classes which meant we had a selection of foods to have.  We had tea and coffee for the adults and juice for our LNS Learners.  

The Room 1 Learners then showed their artwork, writing and read their browsing books to our Grandparents.  The Grandparents commented on how much they loved spending time at school with their grandchildren.   Mrs Cherry wished she was a grandparent of a LNS learner so she pretended to be Karter's Nana!    The LNS learners showed wonderful Respect by letting the adults go first and by passing plates of food around to share.  

Thank you Grandparents for coming along today! 

Kayden and Taua

Maia-Grace and Nana

Ruby and her Nana

Amelia, her Mum and her Great Nan

Aaliyah and her Nana

Bellah with her Papa and Nan 

Having afternoon tea

Lockie, Nana and Grandad Richard from Ashburton

Kaleb and his Nana

Mrs Cherry pretending to be Karter's Nana

What's Going On Next Week?

Here is our weekly information sheet for next week.  

We are going to try and ensure these are shared on here each week too.  

We use this order so that we can learn to quickly write small words like sat, sit, pit, pin, tin etc. Each child has a sounds booklet to practice at home. We also use this video clip at school each day to help us.

Room One's Letter of the Week is... Aa

  We use the Jolly Phonics order to teach our letters.  So we don't teach the letters/sounds A, B, C etc in order.  The order we use is... 

s, a, t, i, p, n
ck, e, h, r, m, d
g, o, u, l, f, b
ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or
z, w, ng, v, oo(book), oo (moon)
y, x, ch, sh, th

We use this order so that we can learn to quickly write small words like sat, sit, pit, pin, tin etc.  Each child has a sounds booklet to practice at home.  We also use this video clip at school each day to help us.  

 

Each week we focus on a letter/sound to learn, read and write about.  We do this through phonics, singing, reading stories, handwriting, alphabet activities, letter writing, play dough, Language Experience, make and do and lots of other things.

This week for Language Experience we are making something beginning with Aa.  Can you think of something that begins with Aa.  

This week we are learning about the letter Aa.    We will learn its name, its sound, how to write and recognise it and about some things that begin with this letter.   

The teachers love planning exciting learning experiences to help us learn our letters. 

At the moment we LOVE alphabet songs so Miss Collins has posted a couple of videos/songs about the letter Aa that we might like.  

How many Aa words can you see and hear in these You Tube Clips Room One?

Being A Learner: Our Letter of the Week is... Ss

Room One's Letter of the Week is... Ss

This week our Poem is a tongue twister...

Here is a video clip to help us learn our tongue twister...

Each week we focus on a letter to learn, read and write about.  We do this through phonics, singing, reading stories, handwriting, alphabet activities, letter writing, play dough, make and do and lots of other things.

This week we are learning about the letter Ss.  We will learn its name, its sound, how to write and recognise it and about some things that begin with this letter.    

At the moment we LOVE alphabet songs so Miss Collins has posted a couple of videos/songs about the letter Ss that we might like.  

How many Ss words can you see and hear in these You Tube Clips Room One?

Being A Learner: Room One is OPEN for Learning!

This year we welcomed 11 new learners into Room One with Miss Collins and Mrs Cherry.  We have been busy learning the new school routines and getting to know each other.    Miss Collins teaches us until 11.30am and then Mrs Cherry takes over. 

When we come to school we have a daily 'Morning Message' to complete.  Miss Collins changes it each day.  On Tuesday we drew our family and Miss Collins took a photo.   

Being A Learner: The Countdown Is On...

Room One opens day one next term! 

We look forward to welcoming 

Emily, Israel, Misty, Cairo and Kyra-Leigh to Room One!  

See information about Room One 

on our week 2  newsletter!  

Being A Learner: Using Devices to Support Our Learning

This term the Kakano Teachers want to incorporate the iPads and computers more into their teaching and learning programmes in Term 2.  We have dabbled in Term 1 and are excited about the students enthusiasm and the opportunities that the devices provide.     

Please ensure that the home apps that your child has on their iPad are suitable for school and are age appropriate.  

For the students who are bringing their own device can they please have the FREE apps listed below.   

Apps:

• Pic Collage - great for creating and sharing learning
• QR Reader - accessing websites safely
• iMovie (comes free with iPad)
• Blogger - A Google tool
• Dropbox - A place to store files
• Mathletics - A programme that the school provides a free subscription for
• Reading Eggs - - A programme that the school provides a free subscription for
• Lark - great for creating and sharing learning
• Wonderbox - an exploring and creating app designed for young children
• Chatterkid - Oral language, sharing our thinking and creating app
• You Tube - a place to support our learning
• Google Suite - Chrome, Classroom, Slides, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Gmail, maps

Great Apps which cost that we will be using on the class iPads which you may choose to purchase:

• Explain Everything
• Easy Blogger

Here is a picture to help you find the apps:

Here are the Google Apps:

Being Respectful: Welcome to the new people in Room One!

This week we have had five new pupils start in Room One with Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard.  We warmly welcome these new tamariki and their whānau to Linwood North School.  The other Room One pupils have been respectful and responsible with helping them settle in and get used to life at school.  

           

                

STRIKE

Today we had Strike visit Linwood North at St Chad's.  They were amazing! We loved hearing the different percussion instruments.  Some of us found it a little bit loud but we loved the beats. Mrs Geal and Mr Betts did a great job on the stage playing against each other but Mr Betts won.  At the beginning they put some songs on and LNS sung along to them without prompting and we sounded great!  The performers were impressed with our singing!  Some students got to help the performers by playing the Cook Island log drums and they did a great job.  At the end they use fire and methylated spirits to perform a percussion act.  It was very cool!    

Here we are coming into St Chad's.

Miss Fraser and Rahnui walking down.

Captivated!

Moving and grooving!

Making a tropical rainstorm

Mr Betts and Mrs Geal showing us their moves!

The Cook Island log drums

The fire!

Avonside Early Learning Centre

Last Thursday we had Avonside Early Learning Centre visit Linwood North School.  Lots of the pupils who came to visit had siblings or whanau at our School and they loved seeing their whanau.  It was great to meet some new people and spend some time with the Avonside Early Learning Centre Teachers.  

  

One Lucky Family...

Last week one of our families successfully bid on one of the giraffes that were part of the Christchurch Stands Tall outdoor exhibition.  The giraffes were displayed around the City over summer and I know lots of people took advantage of this free exhibition.

Aurora's family bought 'Animal Biscuit' which was displayed at The Colombo over the summer period.  Animal Biscuit was designed by Adam Fields.  

Here are some photo's Aurora's Mum sent in for Aurora to share.

Animal Biscuit at The Colombo before he moved to Aurora's house

Aurora blowing bubbles from the prize box in front of her new giraffe.

Animal Biscuit at his new house!

Mutukaroa - Home and School Partnerships

What is Mutukaroa?

Mutukaroa is the name if our school and communtiy learning partnership. Mutukaroa is about working with parents and whanau to understand how your child is progressing in their learning over the first three years at school. It is also about supporting parents to help their children in their learning at home.

Making the most of this opportunity.

As a parent you want to know how your child is doing in their learning. Mutukaroa allows you as a parent to know exactly how your child is doing at every stage of their learning.

Mutukaroa is about: 

• Having in depth knowledge of how your child is doing in their assessments and learning from Years 1-3 by having regular meetings with the Mutukaroa Co-ordinator.
• Sharing specific information about your child so you can feel well informed and confident in what they are doing in school.
• Accessibility - Parents can choose where to have meetings, when and what time of day.
• Providing support with translators if required.
• Using parent friendly language.

Regular learning conversations that equip parents to:

• understand data about their child's achievement
• ask questions
• select next steps for learning at home
• choose and take home learning resources to support learning at home

How Mutukaroa can help you as a Parent

Mutukaroa supports learning-focused relationships with parents.

It can help you to:

• have more equal learning-focused conversations with teachers, both formal (e.g. three way conferences) and informal (e.g. discussions before and after school).
• enjoy learning conversations with your child as you learn more about the way they are learning in school.
• access relevant infomation about how your child is progressing in their learning and in class.
• learn more about your child's achievements and learning needs.
• find out some of the ways you can support your child to meet his or her learning needs at home.
• access resources used in school to support your child in their learning at home.
• have a School coordinator to talk to at any time during your child's schooling if you have any queries about your child's learning.

Important to note

Mutukaroa is focused on learning; the coordinator does not discuss behaviour in meetings. These queries can be discussed with your child's classroom teacher.

Some questions are best answered by your child's classroom teacher. The coordinator can help you to develop these questions to ask the teacher.

As a school we still report as we usually do to parents and the community.

Please make every effort to give honest feedback to the coordinator, so that they can make the programme more effective for everyone. We will send out an evaluation form for you to be able to do this.

Contact info

If you have any queries feel free to contact our Mutukaroa School Coordinator or visit the Mutukaroa website:

http://mutukaroa.org.nz/How-it-works/For-parents

Amy Collins

Tel   3898 112

amy@linwoodnorth.school.nz

Wonderful Room One Linwood North Learners

Wow!  We have finished our second week of school and what a great week of learning we have had.  Room One LOVES Reading!  We are superstars at pointing to each word.  Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard are very excited about the cool books we will be able to read soon.  

Room One have made a great start on their Home Learning and it has been awesome seeing the Room One students reading nights adding up in their notebook.  Both Teachers are looking forward to giving out the first 25 nights certificate!  Keep reading!  

We thought we introduce the first 2015 learners in Room One...

This is Izzan and he started this week.  Izzan enjoys reading and likes our class fish Ma and Karaka.

This is Micheal and he is a pointing superstar.  Micheal enjoys fitness and can run really fast.

This is Dupree and he does everything with this wonderful smile.  Dupree is a super messenger.

This is Naomi and she enjoys drawing.  Naomi is great friend to the other children in Room One.

This is Justine and she loves School.  Justine is the most amazing dancer and loves to take risks and try new things.

This is Mitchell and he is a confident LNS learner.  Mitchell is a superstar at writing and enjoys writing stories.

This is Jaedyn and he loves to draw pictures.  Jaedyn is a superstar at thinking of ideas to write stories about.

This is Aurora and she is a great friend to others.  Aurora enjoys exploring the Learning Centre.

This is Zivan and he loves coming to school.  Zivan is great at getting ready to start the day and at packign his bag at the end of the day by himself. 

This is Ferishta and she is a superstar at getting her work finished.  Ferishta loves learning new things!

This is Rahnui and Miss Fraser.  Rahnui is a special member of Room One and loves being read to by other children.  This children in Room One have been making Rahnui a special feelie book.  Rahnui loves music and responds with lots of laughter and smiles.