Kahikatea Team: Kahikatea Team News T1 Week 5

Kia ora Whānau,

Wow, we are now halfway through the term! Our tamariki are truly demonstrating our school kete values as they learn new routines, get to know new friends and challenge themselves to meet new learning goals. We are so proud of everyone for all their amazing mahi, ka rawe koutou!

Word of the Week

Our word of the week is RESPECT.

Respect is an attitude of caring about people and treating them with dignity. Respect is valuing ourselves and others. We show respect by speaking and acting with courtesy. When we are respectful, we treat others as we want to be treated.

Structured Literacy

Teachers are in the process of completing literacy assessments. You may notice that your child has not yet come home with a decodable text. Once we have the most up-to-date information about your child's literacy needs we will resume sending books home.

When you have time these videos show what our literacy stages look like for our Year 1 and 2 tamariki.

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 4+

Stage 5

Stage 6

Stage 7.1

Stage 7.2

Stage 7.3

Stage 7.4

Learning Through Play

Our tamariki are highly motivated to play and explore new learning as independently as possible. When planning for our LTP sessions we try to provide diverse play options. We are always looking for new things to engage our tamariki, including:

Water play toys
Craft and construction (wool, boxes, buttons, lids, containers etc)
Magazines, coloured paper or card, posters, old calendars
Stickers/labels
Good dress-up costumes (including hats, accessories, shoes)
wrapping paper
ribbon or string
boxes for box construction (cereal boxes, biscuit boxes, small paper bags, egg cartons etc