Kia Ora Whanau
The students are very excited about the opportunity to share their learning with you. They have decided to host you in their classroom from 5.30pm to 6pm on Wednesday 8 June, just prior to the Matariki event. Milo and biscuits (made by the students) will be served from 5.20pm.
They will have on display the learning they have been involved in and they will also put together a few presentations. The proceedings will culminate with a song and a dance!
All family and friends are welcome. Please can you diarize this event. I look forward to catching up with you over a cup of Milo!
Nga mihi
Nigel
Monday, May 30, 2016
Friday, May 27, 2016
Charity Run - Final few days for sponsorship
Kia Ora Whanau
The Ilam School Fundraiser for the SPCA and for Alzheimers Canterbury takes place on Thursday 2 June. All sponsorship forms are to be in to the office by Tuesday 31 May.
I will sponsor $1 to any student in Room 1 who gets 3 or more other sponsors.
Please could you assist us in delivering the message of 'caring for our community'.
Other reminders:
Winter Sport goes through to the end of August. Practise is every Tuesday and matches take place every Friday.
No school on the 'Queens Birthday' - Monday 6 June
Matariki Evening 6pm on Wednesday 8 June
Regards
Nigel
The Ilam School Fundraiser for the SPCA and for Alzheimers Canterbury takes place on Thursday 2 June. All sponsorship forms are to be in to the office by Tuesday 31 May.
I will sponsor $1 to any student in Room 1 who gets 3 or more other sponsors.
Please could you assist us in delivering the message of 'caring for our community'.
Other reminders:
Winter Sport goes through to the end of August. Practise is every Tuesday and matches take place every Friday.
No school on the 'Queens Birthday' - Monday 6 June
Matariki Evening 6pm on Wednesday 8 June
Regards
Nigel
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Week 4 Update
Kia Ora Whanau
Update on current happenings:-
Winter Sport - Started on Friday. Great to get underway. We have teams playing Football, Netball and Hockey. Football reminder - all Footballers must have a pair of shin pads to play on a Friday.
Museum - was an awesome visit on Monday. The highlight being the 'interactive' floor. When you walked on the floor leaves flew away and bugs scrambled for cover!
Strike Percussion on Tuesday was great. They introduced us to all sorts of Percussion instruments from the Marumba through to the High hats and everything inbetween. We are enjoying creating our own music on the garage band app and hopefully we will let loose a couple of our compilations on the next Team time.
Football - we are half way through our Football programme with Mainland Football. The children absolutely love these sessions.
Maths - we are learning about measurement at the moment. We have been trying to work out the length of our paces using various methods.
Literacy - we are getting closer to completing our Bee stories. Some children will be presenting their stories using devices.
Art - we have completed our plates and our next step will be to use crayon to develop our screens. in two weeks time we will use dye and rollers.
Inquiry - we are looking at how seeds grow. The seeds will be coming home in about a fortnights time.
Happening soon:
A big focus next week will be the Fundraiser for Alzheimers and the SPCA. Please could you encourage your child to get some sponsorship.
Queens Birthday is on 6 June
Matariki evening is on 8 June at 6pm
Have a great weekend
Regards
Nigel
Update on current happenings:-
Winter Sport - Started on Friday. Great to get underway. We have teams playing Football, Netball and Hockey. Football reminder - all Footballers must have a pair of shin pads to play on a Friday.
Museum - was an awesome visit on Monday. The highlight being the 'interactive' floor. When you walked on the floor leaves flew away and bugs scrambled for cover!
Strike Percussion on Tuesday was great. They introduced us to all sorts of Percussion instruments from the Marumba through to the High hats and everything inbetween. We are enjoying creating our own music on the garage band app and hopefully we will let loose a couple of our compilations on the next Team time.
Football - we are half way through our Football programme with Mainland Football. The children absolutely love these sessions.
Maths - we are learning about measurement at the moment. We have been trying to work out the length of our paces using various methods.
Literacy - we are getting closer to completing our Bee stories. Some children will be presenting their stories using devices.
Art - we have completed our plates and our next step will be to use crayon to develop our screens. in two weeks time we will use dye and rollers.
Inquiry - we are looking at how seeds grow. The seeds will be coming home in about a fortnights time.
Happening soon:
A big focus next week will be the Fundraiser for Alzheimers and the SPCA. Please could you encourage your child to get some sponsorship.
Queens Birthday is on 6 June
Matariki evening is on 8 June at 6pm
Have a great weekend
Regards
Nigel
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Week 3 Update
Kia Ora Whanau
Thank you to the parents who have offered to join us on our trip to the museum on Monday. Thank you too in getting your consent forms back to me at such short notice. Much appreciated. The forecast is for rain on Monday so please could you send your child to school on Monday with a raincoat. Hopefully the bus will park outside the museum but with regular roadworks one is never too sure!
We loved having Dougal, the Worm Man, come into the class today. We are now a lot wiser about all aspects of tiger worms from their appearance all the way through to their reproduction process!
Our clay bees are complete and the last few should be coming home tomorrow. We have planted our bean seeds and are growing them under various conditions. If all goes according to plan those seeds should be going home around Queens Birthday weekend!
Our printmaking has shown good progress. Most children have made their design and are now completing their plate. We will finish this process next week and then go onto our first crayon prints. Once we have mastered that we will then progress onto the dye.
We are all very excited about Winter Sport starting tomorrow. All teams train on Tuesday lunchtimes and then matches take place each Friday afternoon. It is anticipated that matches will go through to around week 4 in Term 3.
Some awesome bee stories have been written and we have also produced some bee stories on the i-pads.
We are looking forward to the Strike Percussion show on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend. Wrap up warm
Nga mihi
Nigel
Thank you to the parents who have offered to join us on our trip to the museum on Monday. Thank you too in getting your consent forms back to me at such short notice. Much appreciated. The forecast is for rain on Monday so please could you send your child to school on Monday with a raincoat. Hopefully the bus will park outside the museum but with regular roadworks one is never too sure!
We loved having Dougal, the Worm Man, come into the class today. We are now a lot wiser about all aspects of tiger worms from their appearance all the way through to their reproduction process!
Our clay bees are complete and the last few should be coming home tomorrow. We have planted our bean seeds and are growing them under various conditions. If all goes according to plan those seeds should be going home around Queens Birthday weekend!
Our printmaking has shown good progress. Most children have made their design and are now completing their plate. We will finish this process next week and then go onto our first crayon prints. Once we have mastered that we will then progress onto the dye.
We are all very excited about Winter Sport starting tomorrow. All teams train on Tuesday lunchtimes and then matches take place each Friday afternoon. It is anticipated that matches will go through to around week 4 in Term 3.
Some awesome bee stories have been written and we have also produced some bee stories on the i-pads.
We are looking forward to the Strike Percussion show on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend. Wrap up warm
Nga mihi
Nigel
Monday, May 16, 2016
Museum trip - parent help wanted please
Kia Ora Whanau
Thank you for sending your children to school with a jar today. The seeds have been planted. We eagerly await the germination process!
A wonderful opportunity has arisen.
We are going to the Museum on Monday (23 May). We will be leaving school on the bus at 9am. We attend a 'Minibeast' (bugs and insects) presentation from 9.30am - 10.30am. We will then go into the Botanical gardens for morning tea and have a good look round the gardens. The bus will collect us at Noon from the gardens and have us back at school at 12.15pm.
If you can help please let me know by e-mail: nigel.marsh@ilam.school.nz or text me on 021 054 2616.
The Worm Man will be at school on Thursday talking to us about setting up a Worm Farm. We are currently baby-sitting a Worm Farm.
Regards
Nigel
Thank you for sending your children to school with a jar today. The seeds have been planted. We eagerly await the germination process!
A wonderful opportunity has arisen.
We are going to the Museum on Monday (23 May). We will be leaving school on the bus at 9am. We attend a 'Minibeast' (bugs and insects) presentation from 9.30am - 10.30am. We will then go into the Botanical gardens for morning tea and have a good look round the gardens. The bus will collect us at Noon from the gardens and have us back at school at 12.15pm.
If you can help please let me know by e-mail: nigel.marsh@ilam.school.nz or text me on 021 054 2616.
The Worm Man will be at school on Thursday talking to us about setting up a Worm Farm. We are currently baby-sitting a Worm Farm.
Regards
Nigel
Friday, May 6, 2016
Pet Day - Wednesday 11 May
Kia Ora Whanau
On Wednesday 11 May we are going to introduce our pets to the class! The two key conditions for this to happen are:-
1. You must be happy that your child brings their respective pet or pets to school
2. You will take the pet home at 9.15am!!!!!
I will place a couple of tarpaulins on the floor. I look forward to meeting our 'wider' family on Wednesday
Regards
Nigel
On Wednesday 11 May we are going to introduce our pets to the class! The two key conditions for this to happen are:-
1. You must be happy that your child brings their respective pet or pets to school
2. You will take the pet home at 9.15am!!!!!
I will place a couple of tarpaulins on the floor. I look forward to meeting our 'wider' family on Wednesday
Regards
Nigel
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Week 1 Update
Kia Ora Whanau
Welcome back to Term 2. I hope everyone is now back in the groove of school lunches and checking in with reading and Mathletics!
Inquiry
Our Inquiry for Term 2 is in it's infancy but we have started by looking at 'Living and Non-Living things'. We then progressed this onto 'What does Man need to survive'.
Our Literacy and Art programmes are linked to our Inquiry topic of 'The Secret Lives of Living Things'. With regards to our writing we are writing about 'My pet'. With the children who don't have a pet I have asked them to focus on a relative or neighbours pet or else write about a trip to the zoo or a wildlife park. Please could you send your child to school with a picture of them and their 'respective' pet/animal. If you don't have access to a printer please just e-mail the picture to me and I will print it out at school.
Pet day
For those students who have pets, and you are comfortable the pet comes to school for 10 minutes, we are going to have a Pet 'day' next Wednesday (11 May). I will bring a couple of tarpaulins from home so nothing unwanted is left on our carpet! Please could you take the pets home again at 9.10am!
Art
With Art this term we will be doing printmaking. We started today with crayon rubbings but will be moving onto the real thing. The theme will be in keeping with our Inquiry topic.
Maths
The students are loving their 'rich' tasks. Sue Graham, who is an expert Maths practitioner, will be sharing her experise with the class on Friday.
Reading
As part of our Literacy programme I am reading 'The Power of One' to the class. They are loving the story.
Co-teaching with Room 2
After the successful start last term with PE, Science and Drama Marcus and I have teamed up for Inquiry and Art as well. We will be asking the children for their feedback on this new 'teaching style' in a couple of weeks but it would be great to get your feedback as well - hopefully there is some discussion about this around the dinner table!
Sport
Our first matches are on 21 May.
Nga mahi
Nigel
Welcome back to Term 2. I hope everyone is now back in the groove of school lunches and checking in with reading and Mathletics!
Inquiry
Our Inquiry for Term 2 is in it's infancy but we have started by looking at 'Living and Non-Living things'. We then progressed this onto 'What does Man need to survive'.
Our Literacy and Art programmes are linked to our Inquiry topic of 'The Secret Lives of Living Things'. With regards to our writing we are writing about 'My pet'. With the children who don't have a pet I have asked them to focus on a relative or neighbours pet or else write about a trip to the zoo or a wildlife park. Please could you send your child to school with a picture of them and their 'respective' pet/animal. If you don't have access to a printer please just e-mail the picture to me and I will print it out at school.
Pet day
For those students who have pets, and you are comfortable the pet comes to school for 10 minutes, we are going to have a Pet 'day' next Wednesday (11 May). I will bring a couple of tarpaulins from home so nothing unwanted is left on our carpet! Please could you take the pets home again at 9.10am!
Art
With Art this term we will be doing printmaking. We started today with crayon rubbings but will be moving onto the real thing. The theme will be in keeping with our Inquiry topic.
Maths
The students are loving their 'rich' tasks. Sue Graham, who is an expert Maths practitioner, will be sharing her experise with the class on Friday.
Reading
As part of our Literacy programme I am reading 'The Power of One' to the class. They are loving the story.
Co-teaching with Room 2
After the successful start last term with PE, Science and Drama Marcus and I have teamed up for Inquiry and Art as well. We will be asking the children for their feedback on this new 'teaching style' in a couple of weeks but it would be great to get your feedback as well - hopefully there is some discussion about this around the dinner table!
Sport
Our first matches are on 21 May.
Nga mahi
Nigel
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