Welcome to Room 16- 2016

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Welcome to Room 16!  We are very excited about teaching your children this year and getting to know you all. Please come into class and introduce yourselves over the next week or two.  Mrs Rachel Ryan will be teaching the class on Mondays and Tuesdays, and Mrs Jodie Boyle will teach the Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays of each week.  We really enjoy working together and sharing Room 16 and keep each other informed about the class on a daily basis.

Just a few housekeeping matters to start the year:

Uniform and swimming: Please ensure your child is wearing the correct summer uniform, with everything named including their hat. The swimming timetable changes slightly over the next few weeks, so it would be a good idea to bring your named togs and towels daily in a bag please.

Library: Library issuing will not start till Week 3.  Our Library day is on a Wednesday.

Home Learning:  We will be testing the children over the next few weeks and grouping accordingly.  Home readers will be coming home from Week 3.  Please spend ten minutes reading with your child each evening and then sign the Reading Journal   We will be celebrating our ‘Nights Reading’ in class! Once your child has reached a certain reading level, they are given spelling words to learn daily.  They will bring these home on Friday and are tested the following Friday.

Ideas for learning spelling words include:

Writing the words backwards.

Practising writing the words on whiteboards/ with chalk/ in sand.

Writing the words into a sentence.

The children are retested on the Essential lists at set times throughout the year, to see if they are ready to move onto the next level.

Brainfood:

We will be stopping for a brain food snack at around 10am every morning.  Please ensure your child has a manageable piece of fruit or vegetable to eat.  We encourage the children to have named water filled drinking bottles in class.

We are always in our class from 8:30am and welcome you to pop in, but please appreciate that once the bell rings the children need our full attention.  If you could possibly have your child at school by 8:45 (at the latest), so they have a chance to prepare themselves for the day ahead and to interact with their peers.

We look forward to getting to know you all as the term progresses.

Please feel free to contact us on our emails at jboyle@clevedonschool.co.nz or rryan@clevedonschool.co.nz.

Kind regards

Rachel Ryan and Jodie Boyle