Room 2

Kia Ora Room 2 Families / Whanau

I hope you all had a great 3-day weekend to celebrate Waitangi Day and that Room 2 students shared with you the relevance of our National day to be a public holiday on 06 February..

On that note, please make a point of encouraging your child to engage with you, their “Sharing at Home” book on a regular basis. They have some great stories to share in recent pages about Waitangi Day.

The Sharing at Home book goes home every day in their book bag. It is absolutely essential that the contents of the book bag (except for daily or school newsletters) are returned to school each day to ensure continuity of learning.

EACH day, the book bag will have for you to share: a reading / library book; a notebook with individualised spelling and  handwriting needs;  and the “sharing at home” book that will have contents to be shared with your family for fun learning. A Home Reading diary will be issued to each child shortly; as soon as the orders arrive at school.

We are timetabled to use the school swimming pool (now at a super temperature!) for aquatics on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. Please make your child responsible for packing their own swimming gear in a plastic bag – they need to start to be self-directed and responsible for their own learning needs. (Year 4s already will be!!!) I hope!!

We will be visiting the school library / learning centre on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The children can issue one each of fiction / non-fiction. However, I will use discretion regarding whether the texts are suitable for content and reading level.

Thank you to those of you who have contacted me recently. Please email me or cell-phone so that we can be in regular, really important contact!

Regards,

Bev Kidd

What a great bunch of 18 Year 2, 3 and 4 students we have in Room 2!

A very huge welcome to Ants, Ashton, Mackenzie, Georgia, Corbett, Cortez, Jordyn and Charlotte – these precious munchkins are our most recent arrivals this week.

Also, welcome back to our Year 3 and 4 students who are already familiar with the routines in Room 2. It is so great to be in the new re-vamped classroom still named Room 2.

Our main communication link will be via email so could you please advise me of yours so that I can contact you regularly about Room 2 happenings. It would also be very useful to also have your cell-phone contacts.

Please contact me on 0274511649 or bevsilverton@kaimai.school.nz

I’d like you to congratulate your children for demonstrating wonderful virtues of courtesy and courage this week. They  all deserve that!

I look forward to continued informal contact with you all and a great term with lots of fun, love and laughter within learning.

Sincerely, Bev

It is really scary and sad that our wonderful year is coming to an end, too soon! We still have so many exciting things to do, in Room 2!

We have had several events happening in recent weeks that unfortunately clashed on the same days. Never mind- we coped! Here are some ‘voices’ from Room 2 kids….

“Thank you to Ms Sperring for hosting the Year 4s for their orientation day last week. We are really looking forward to being in Year 5 next year and we have so much to look forward to in our new class.”

“The Junior (Year 1 -3) children had a fun day at Pyes Pa school doing athletics activities. We enjoyed interacting with kids from other KRSA schools doing long jump, high jump, sprints, sack races, two-legged races and lots of other bases that grown-up students from the Polytech demonstrated and organised. We had a sausage sizzle at the end.”

This week, the Year 4, 5 and 6 students had athletics at Pemberton Park. Have a look at the Room 3 website to get more information about this full-on, action-packed day.

The Juniors had an EOTC to the Tauranga Girls’ College to watch their annual drama performances, this week. As usual, the plays were a very high standard and we all had a super time, with lots of fun and laughter, with the acting and dancing.

Thank you to all of you parents who have accompanied us on these out of  school events and helped us with transport and supervision on the day. We really appreciate your support!

We’d also like to thank the dental therapists who have been at school for the last few weeks. They have made many new friends at Kaimai and especially with Kaimai teeth!

Next Wednesday afternoon, Cool Bananas will be performing their Christmas play in the school hall. If you would like to come along and join us to watch this wonderful play, you are very welcome! Pre-schoolers will love it as well!

Don’t forget about the Christmas Parade at the Mount this Sunday- check your emails for the details!

See you there!!

Hi to all our mates in Room 2.

I hope you’ve had a super break with your family and friends. What a great celebration this weekend for our wonderful All Blacks!

One of our flags blew off our car today- it must have been so excited to have been an All Black!!

Lots of exciting learning planned for this short term; Sherryl Jordan is coming to visit us on Wednesday to talk about “Finnigan” and his / her Pirates. That is such a privilege!

We will be investigating the devastating “Rena” disaster and the impact it has had on our local global community… and beyond…

Please contact us with a new post to support our exciting programme.

Today we had a very real privilege. A visit from a multi-cultural family who are currently visiting NZ for the Rugby World Cup.

Harry (Dad) is a Kiwi (New Zealander); Roseanna (Mum) is Irish-born; and Sinead and Mikayla are Harry and Roseanna’s Australian-born gorgeous girls.

We shared our wonderful class and school with the Currie family and everyone had lots of fun and laughter.

Thank you to our visitors and I hope that Room 2 will add to this post to express your gratitude…

Roseanna will be sending us photos from today… SO watch this space!!!

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Year 4  Winner  _  Jessica

2nd place : Dannielle

3rd place:  Jovanna

Year 3 Winner : Wilko

2nd place: Jack

3rd place: Paige A

Year 2:  Amy _ first place

Cody_ 2nd place

Sam_ 3rd place

Well done, Room 2! You have researched and prepared your oral presentations really well; using the WALTs criteria based on “Disasters”.

I am very proud of the way you’ve used the ‘hamburger’ format to construct and present your oral presentation.

Most of you have a top and bottom bun with lots of ingredients to make your speech very interesting and / or entertaining to your audience.

Your Room 4 audience today was very attentive and held on to all of your words!

You still have another opportunity to project your voice; use gestures; make eye contact; etc – when you have your final performance. Tomorrow or Friday.

The BIG day of the school finals is next Tuesday.

Good luck to you all!

It has been a very long 11 -week  term for everyone. But we made it!!

Thank you to all of you in Room 2 who have given 100% this term. You know who you are!

I hope you have a super ‘term break’ with your families with lots of sleep-ins and no bus to catch early in the morning!

I have lots of new and exciting learning prepared for next term and look forward to seeing you all back ready to take on new challenges.

See you at the Mount next week “if you are around”.

Love, Bev