May 2011

Issue 1 Room 1 Kura Kid News

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Welcome to Term 2
Welcome to Room One’s new look newsletter. I hope the holiday break provided
a well-deserved rest and that the bunny was good to everyone. The term ahead,
whilst shortening in sunlight and dropping in temperature, should be exciting,
challenging and fun. To improve our learning opportunities further we have made
some changes to our daily timetable, these can be found on our class blog or
notice board outside room one.

Contact us at: Reading Writing Spelling Math

Reading:
E-Mail:
room1kuranuischool@gm Monday to Thursday home readers will
ail.com come home with your child, please take
the time to sign your child’s Read It
book each night. Poem books will come
home on Fridays, these need to be
returned on Monday.
Writing:
We are trialing a new program this
term – for 10minutes each morning
children will undertake SSW (Super
Silent Writing) in a new “My Stories
book”. Writing can be on any topic at
all, daily writing will be monitored but
not marked. It’s aim is to encourage
writing mileage and enjoyment. Our
term focus is Character Description
and Report Writing.
Spelling:
Between 3 and 10 words will come
home on Friday afternoon, please help
your child to practise reading and
writing these. Focusing on letter
names and sounds is crucial
particularly in the early days.
Maths:
As a junior classroom our major focus
is largely on Number. This includes
solving addition and subtraction
problems using a variety of strategies
and developing an understanding of
how numbers are formed, e.g. 15 is one
group of ten and five ones.
Our alternate strand this term is
algebra – exploring patterns and
relationships.

Topic – Footprints on the Land

I’m thrilled to say we are going to submerge ourselves in science. We are going to
explore the important role of water in our daily lives, the water cycle and sustainable
ways of enhancing our local waterways. To compliment this we will delve in to the
lifecycle of plants and begin to hopefully grow our own. Carbon footprints make
regular headlines – working out what this looks like for us and how we can change this
using our growing knowledge of water and plants will round out our immersion in
science.
Art will be linked to our topic and math; it will involve investigating textures, patterns
Thank you for your and 3D objects.
ongoing support! P.E. revolves around large ball skills to work hand-in-hand with winter sports.

Ms K Thank you all for your ongoing support of “Flat Stanley” - his blog is exciting and filled
Daniels with world-wide and local adventures. If possible you can email me your photos and
stories we can add them to the blog too. Remember our door is always open and we
love your involvement in our learning, if you have time we would love to see you.