Kahikatea News - Term 4 Week 5

Kia ora e te whānau,

Week 5 already, what fantastic fun we are having!

Word of the week

Our word of the week is kindness. 

Kindness is "the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate" (Oxford Dictionary)

Te Reo Focus

This week, our Te Reo Maori focus has been how to ask someone what their name is and how to tell someone your name. The following video has been helping our tamariki learn this knowledge:

Art Lessons

Over the next few weeks, our tamariki will be participating in a sustainable art rotation of 8 different lessons. These lessons cover all four art strands of the curriculum (visual art, drama, dance and music)

They had their first two lessons this week. 

Reading Books

Please ensure all Little Learners Love Literacy books are returned to school by the end of week 6. This will allow us to do a stocktake and work out what new resources we need to purchase to support literacy learning next year. 

Toys

We ask that our students leave their toys at home when they come to school. We have plenty of fun activities and things for them to play with whilst at school. When toys from home come to school they can get lost or broken. We know how special our toys are, and the best way to keep them safe is to keep them at home.

Photos from the past two weeks

Ngā mihi nui,

Team Kahikatea

Katie McFarlane 

katie.mcfarlane@beckenham.school.nz

Emma Hayes-Smith

emma.hayes-smith@beckenham.school.nz

Krystal Hunt

krystal.hunt@beckenham.school.nz

Megan Harris

megan.harris@beckenham.school.nz

Lisa Collier

lisa.collier@beckenham.school.nz

Kahikatea News Term 4, Week 3

Kia ora e te whānau,

Our huge highlight this week has been swimming! We are so proud of our tamariki showing our kete values, 'We Love Challenge' and 'We Love Learning'. They have also demonstrated our key competencies of 'managing self' and 'participating and contributing'. Each day the changing process has become faster and lost property is becoming slightly less!

The focus of our swimming lessons has been on safety in the water:

For some of our tamariki, swimming has been a new experience that was initially a little scary. A VERY exciting comment heard from one of our learners was: "Look at me, I'm doing bubbles in the water and it's only my third day in the pool!!"

Thanks again to our wonderful parent helpers, for supporting our learners at the pool.

Here are some photo highlights from the week:

Have a lovely weekend. We look forward to four more days of swimming next week and Canterbury Show Day on Friday.

Ngā mihi nui,

Team Kahikatea

Katie McFarlane 

katie.mcfarlane@beckenham.school.nz

Emma Hayes-Smith

emma.hayes-smith@beckenham.school.nz

Krystal Hunt

krystal.hunt@beckenham.school.nz

Megan Harris

megan.harris@beckenham.school.nz

Lisa Collier

lisa.collier@beckenham.school.nz