Week Three - Back to Regularity and the Trip to St Chads

This week gave the students an opportunity to return to the regular timetable and the expected events of school.  Now that swimming has finished for Term 2 we have moved into our full reading interchange.  The children are settling back into this routine well and are enjoying the ability to take home books again.

This week these students were very lucky.  They got to experience another special play put on at St Chads.  All of the students in Room 7 represented Linwood North School well as we traveled to and from the venue.  This play  contained an interesting set of messages and challenged the akonga to read for enjoyment!

Below are some photos from the event:

In Week Three we have consolidated our knowledge of money.  The students have shown great movement even in just the short time period of three weeks.  The students in Room 7 can identify all New Zealand coins and notes and many of the students are feel confident in adding small amounts together.  Some students have even challenged themselves and practiced buying and selling classroom resources (like pens, erasers, and pencils) with pretend money!   

In literacy, the students have began working on explanation writing.  The writing this week centred around explaining why it is so important to learn to swim - something which all of the akonga should now be very familiar with!  The students have put in some hard work and I am sure that by the end of the week we will have some amazing and encouraging reasons from Room 7 to learn to swim.

I all Room 7 caregivers, whanau, and students have a wonderful weekend!


Nga mihi,

Nick Shimasaki