Our visit from Blue talking about road safety.

Week 4 & 5 Term 1

Its has been a busy 2 weeks with swimming lessons, visitors and school work! Look at what we have been up to...

Swimming Lessons - Ruru Children are enjoying there
time at McKenzie pool.

Learning to float on tummies and backs.

Using our Mimio Interactive Board

Basic facts - addition game

                                       

 Telling Stories - Oral Language

Dinosaur bones - getting our imagination, for ideas for writing.

Mia sharing her treasure box and telling her story.

One of our baby Monarch caterpillars.

Helen our school health nurse teaching us about blowing our noses
washing our hands and stopping the spread of germs.

Practicing keeping our germs to ourselves when we have a dry sneeze and cough.

What's Happening in Ruru So Far this Term

Guided Reading

We are a busy bunch in Ruru and this week have started our guided reading groups. The children are learning reading strategies that will help them in their reading journey to becoming fluent readers.

 

Using a counter to help 1-1 matching
(focusing on each word as we read)

Olivia with a Cicada case - added 

to our Writers notebook as an

idea for a story.

Working Independently

 

Planning our Stories

Writing Group

Finding words and letters on our
Alphabet/Word cards.

Writing:

We are well into our story writing, collecting ideas and learning different writing strategies like using our Alphabet/word cards independently.

 Maths

In week 1 we looked at collecting information/grouping, sorting and making graphs. In these pictures we sorted coloured beans into like groups, tallied their numbers and showed our results in a pictograph.

We are now working on being an independent worker and learning new routines for math time.

New Year Welcome 2015

Welcome to Ruru class 2015

We are at the beginning of another exciting year for the students at Sacred Heart. This term is our shortest for the year and our calendar is already full with swimming, EOTC and Easter events coming up.

A bit about Me!

My name is Onieka Tristram and I have been teaching at Sacred Heart around 8 years now. I come from Canada but have spent a majority of my life here in NZ. I Trained as a teacher in Christchurch and graduated with a BTchLnHon. One of my roles at Sacred Heart is lead teacher in ICT which is one of my interests. I am enjoying being back at school getting to know your children.

If you would like to talk with me about your child or have any questions to ask, I am available at the beginning of the day from 8:30 - 9:00 am or after school.

Yours sincerely,

Onieka