Week 4, Term 2

Another busy week has passed with a lot of work going into the clear files that go home Friday. We hope you enjoy looking at and talking about the wonderful work your children have been doing so far this year. Please bring them back on Monday so we can have them at the conferences with you and your child Monday and Tuesday afternoon.

Congratulations to Rhys this week for receiving Pupil of the Week. Rhys has been working really hard during mat time. It is hard for our young people to learn how to sit on the mat; to not play and talk or touch others, but it is worthwhile to develop these behaviours so we can get along with people. Well done Rhys, you are getting really good at this!

This term we are learning about painting. We did some clever painting with Mrs Lawson to make autumn forest pictures. We painted the tree trunks and branches first using black paint. Then we used the brush and dabbed in autumn colours to look like leaves. We had to mix the colours and it was quite tricky but with some persistence we got there in the end. And don't they look amazing! Check out our individual work on our own pages.

Next week we will be learning the letters a and q and learning to write the letter Mn.
Our poem will be "Old King Cole" and our big book will be "Lunch for Greedy Cat".
In maths we will be doing some more work on shapes for our geometry unit. You can help your child by spotting shapes around the house and talking about them with them. We will be working on joining sets of numbers and continuing our work on the before and after numbers up to 20.
Keep up the cross country work everybody, the big race is coming up! Getting out for a quick run with your kids is a great way to tire them out!
Have a great weekend everybody!

Week 3, Term 2

Last week whizzed, this week zoomed! We learned the letters 'x' and 'z' and practised lots of zooming like planes, race cars, and superheroes. This is us zooming over buildings "to the rescue!".

We also made zebras but we thought they were more like the Wonky Donkey! We took them out for a feed of grass on the front field.

Congratulations to Jack who received Pupil of the Week this week for learning his commonly used words so well, and for basically having a fantastic week all round! Well done, Jack.

Next week we will be learning the letters c and o, and the blend tr. We will be learning how to write Nn for handwriting.
Our poem will be Humpty Dumpty and the Big Book will be the Monkey Bridge.
In maths next week we will be doing more ordering of numbers but it might get tricky with some numbers missing! We will be recognising patterns of different numbers. We will also be doing making patterns to five and 10.
In fitness and PE we will be practising our Rob the Nest game as part of our ball skills programme and some starting skills for cross country.
In ICT we will be continuing exploring Kidspix and making pictures of things we have read about.
We will be adding a line to our Mihi for Te Reo so listen out at home for us practising it. We will introduce ourselves and our parents in Te Reo Maori. Try practising with your child.
Ko _______ toku ingoa. Ko ______ toku mama. Ko ________ toku papa.
In Music we will be exploring notation; how we can write sounds we hear.
Thank you to all parents who work hard at home providing lots of fun ways to learn with their children. We hear loads of reports of exciting activities in the weekend, getting out and about, of yummy meals, and special times. These are all great ways to spend time with our most treasured five year olds.
Have a good week everybody.

Week 2 Term 2

Another busy week has whizzed by with lots of learning including the blend 'wh' for 'whizz'! We also did the letter 'Pp' in handwriting on Friday and practised lots of words beginning with 'p'. We thought it would be fun to combine our maths work on geometrical shapes with the letter 'p' and made a pig out of circles, ovals, and triangles. Take a look at our individual work on our own pages.

We are lucky at Victory Primary School to be able to sample a different fruit everyday. This week we had mandarins and because we are learning about shapes, we looked at the individual segments in a mandarin. We discovered they looked like 'moons' and learned that this shape is a crescent. We also practiced our counting by lining all the segments up. The best bit was learning about subtraction when we got to eat them one by one!

 
Currently in Phys Ed we are getting ready for the cross country race coming up in Week 5. For those families interested, Athletics Nelson is holding a series of four races for primary students every Saturday at 3pm. The first two have already been but there is still one at Rabbit Island this week, and again the following Saturday at Miyazu Gardens. It's free and you just need to turn up a little earlier to put your name beside a number on the day. This is a fun and free way to encourage your child into running and getting muddy! Check out the website for more information.

http://athletics.nelson.co.nz/stories/storyReader$428

Next week we are learning more about running and will be practising our starts as well as continuing with our big ball skills.
We will be learning the letters 'x' and 'z' and doing 'Rr' for handwriting.
We will be learning the nursery rhyme 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep'.
In Maths we will be doing some more work on shapes and recalling some earlier skills of sorting them.
We will also be practising our teen numbers and working on some groups to ten.

Have a good week everybody.

Pupil of the Week

Congratulations Matariki for receiving Pupil of the Week this week for persistence with your exercises. Lately we have been doing a set of pilates like exercises to encourage the children to build core strength. Matariki has been working really hard at these and is getting to be a real 'Strongman'! Well done, Matariki.

What we are learning this week....

This week we are learning the letters 'y' and 'w' and the blends 'ch' and 'wh'.

Our poem is Mary had a little lamb, and our tricky words are 'went' and 'like'.

In maths we are focussing on 'teen' numbers and ordering to 20. We will also be doing simple addition and subtraction sums.

Congratulations to Matariki who will be receiving Pupil of the Week this week for working really hard at some tricky 'Strong Exercises' we have been doing in class lately. Ask your budding athletes to show you some. They are not all that easy! Pupil of the Week will be awarded at assembly tomorrow at 2.30 so if any of Matariki's whanau would like to come and see him get his certificate, please come along. Also check back here tomorrow for a photo of him. Well done Matariki.

Just a reminder to your children to return our class library books before or on Friday so they can get a new one. Have a good week everyone.