Kahikatea Team News

Term 1 Week 5 

Nga mihi kia  koutou, 

Our little Kahikatea team is settling in nicely and we have maths and literacy programs underway. We have welcomed one of the Kowhai homegroups into the atrium space so you and your child need to use our East-side entry doors in the mornings. Bags can continue to be placed in either the green or blue cubbies.  

Professional Development Days 

Sarah and Amber are attending a two-day Literacy PD on Monday and Tuesday next week. 

Michelle Bradley will be relieving for Amber. 

Ellie Galletly will be relieving for Sarah. 

Walk and Wheel Week 

Next week our annual walk and wheel week is happening! Check out the Daily themes and Walk or Wheel website. 

Literacy 

Each child has their own literacy folder and if their teacher gives them a decodable book to read it must be placed inside their folder and then put into their school bag. If you can't see it please come into the hub and look in one of the three blue literacy boxes in the pathway. 

Please return the literacy folder each Friday. Thank you! If you have any questions, please ask your child's literacy teacher. 

Naming Items 

Thank you for clearly naming all your child's personal belongings, these include uniform items (hats, jerseys, shirts, school bag), and their drink bottle and lunchbox. 

Maths

Dear family and whānau, at school this week we are completing a maths unit on native frogs in ponds. This unit is all about how numbers are made up of other, smaller numbers, an essential concept underlying addition and subtraction. The unit helps develop two ideas: 

• there are a finite number of number pairs for a given number (for example 5 can be thought of as 0 and 5, 1 and 4, 2 and 3 and no other pairs can be found) 
•  numbers are uniquely paired (if 2 is one of the parts of 5, the other part must be 3). 

Children need to investigate these relationships many times. Once children believe that 2 and 3 is always 5 they see a real reason to remember it. 

At home this week please help your child to solve the inside and outside the house problem below. Encourage them to record the numbers and draw pictures to show people inside and outside. Toys could be used to show these number relationships. Discuss these in your home language also if you wish to. 

______________people live in my house. 

If there are 2 people inside my house then___________people are outside. 

If there are___________inside my house then__________people are outside. 

If there are____________inside my house then__________people are outside. 

If there are______inside my house then______________people are outside. 

Check out some very cool mathematicians!

Kahikatea Change Health Unit 

We are learning about the concept of change and our focus this term is on the physical and emotional changes in ourselves. We would love for each child to please have a colour photo of them as babies sent to school for some learning we will be doing next week. You are welcome to email a copy to your child's teacher if that is easier for you.

Library Days 

Talia and Amber go to the library on Tuesday afternoon 

Sarah goes to the library on Thursday afternoon.

Thank you for your ongoing support and helpful feedback, we are really enjoying getting to know you and your children! 

If you have any queries or wondering, please email your child's homegroup teacher or pop in to speak to one of us. 

amber.donovan@beckenham.school.nz

talia.garrick@beckenham.school.nz

sarah.junghenn@beckenham.school.nz

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 

Team Kahikatea 

Kahikatea Whānau Update: Term 1 Week 3

• Welcome back!
• Drop offs
• Library times
• Kapa Haka
• Garden Club
• Literacy
• Cyber Safety

Welcome back to school!

We have been absolutely loving getting to know our new tamariki, everyone has made such a positive start to school. The Kahikatea hub has been very busy with participating in literacy, maths, sports, learning through play, getting to know each other, inquiry and kapa haka. Below are some pictures of the fun we have had over the past two weeks:

Drop Offs:

Please remember to use either the Sandwich Road or Park entrance to enter the school. The entrance behind our building is for BOSCO families to use. We are encouraging our children to unpack their own bags in the morning. Thank you for your support with this, we have noticed many of you standing back and allowing your children to put their lunchboxes, reading folders, and bags away themselves. 

Library:

Students are able to issue two books from the library each week, they are able to renew books as needed. Students' with overdue books will not be able to borrow new books.

Our library days are as follows:

Tuesdays-Talia and Ambers' homegroups

Thursdays-Sarah's homegroup

Kapa Haka:

We are fortunate to have the amazing Whaia Cath running our Kapa Haka sessions again this year. This term, Sarah and Amber's class will get a 20-minute session each week on a Thursday. Talia and Amber's homegroup in Term 2, Sarah and Talia's in Term 3. In Term 4, we will all work our way to a Christmas performance.

Garden Club:

Thanks to everyone who brought produce this week and gave a koha! We made $38 for our Garden Club which is run by our wonderful Teaching assistant, Lucy. The kids are very excited to be able to put this money towards winter crops!

Thanks to our wonderful sellers, Ryland, Theo and Jak.

Literacy:

We are moving into Literacy groups next week on Monday. There will be a chart up in the hub above the reading folder buckets which says which teacher students are working with for Literacy. The hub will have a hui and line students up and send them off with their teachers for the first few days to ensure everyone gets to the right place.

Students' will start to bring home letter cards, heart word cards, and books over the next few weeks.

Cyber Safety:

All You Need to Know About TikTok

Tiktok is one of the fastest-growing social media apps. It’s a platform for creating, sharing and discovering short videos—and many young people love it! From new dance crazes to funny clips to animal videos, Tiktok can inspire creativity and bring joy.

But it’s important that parents and whānau help their tamariki navigate Tiktok safely. Today we’re sharing the Netsafe Tiktok Family Safety Toolkit so you can help guide your whānau to a fun and safe digital experience.