Room 15 Productions!! Beach Education

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A selection of action from our beach education day all in glorious technicolour!!

Beach Education- 2014

What a great day we had!! Here's a selection of photos mostly of the class creating sand sculptures. Also check out Room 15 Productions above!!! Click in the middle of a pic if you want to enlarge it or copy it.

A Brand New Year with a Great Class!!

10th February 2014

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

I trust you all had a restful break over the recent holidays. My family and I made the most of the great and so great weather and have recently been spending more time down at the beach. In fact we have run into a number of Parkview people down there which has been great. This is just a note to let you know how things are progressing in class and some organisational reminders.

General

The class has settled very well into the various routines of class life and there is a happy and

 contented feel to the place.

Camp

Camp this year will at Blue Skies in Kaiapoi. The dates are 12-14 of March. Because we use our own transport to get there the cost will be $90, sounds expensive I know but many school camps these days cost well over $100.  If you wish to “drip-feed” some of this amount off that’s fine.  If you wish to come on camp please make yourself known to me.

Homework

Please check and sign your child’s homework notebook sometime during the week(we will start using them next week).  This book also has reminders and general class information in it, so it is important that you sight it.  Chores and activities after school also count as homework e.g. swimming or music lessons or even helping with the evening’s meal.  These you can list on the “homework and reminders” page.

Your child will have a list of spelling words and a family of number facts to learn by Friday.  These lists are issued on Monday and re-tested on Friday. Your child will also be expected to read for 20 minutes each evening and watch at least 3 news broadcasts during the week.

In addition to this the children will have various activities to complete which involves the web-site - www.studyladder.co.nz. There will also be information and class happenings on the class blog at http://room15parkview.blogspot.co.nz/ (this of course can also be found at the school website). It is not my intention for homework to be an onerous activity for families but something that extends learning which is already happening in the classroom. More information will be given on this at the three-way conferences later this month. Don’t hesitate to seek me out if you have any concerns or queries. My e-mail is gary.pinker@parkview.school.nz

Best Regards

Gary Pinker

Classroom Teacher                     

Room 15