My poem

Drip drop drip! Goes the sound of raindrops.

Crash, crash, crash! Go the ocean waves crashing on the sandy beach.

The sky is a nice sunny blue as it looks down on us.

Squish,squash,squish! Go the yummy, sour blueberries in my mouth.

Yum yum!

 

My first 2014 post

Hi there, Ava and Meadow speaking. This is our first time posting on this blog in 2014. We are really excited to be blogging. We hope we get heaps of comments on our stories. Thank you everyone. Bye now.

2014 first blog post year 5

This is not my first post.
Last year I was a year 4. This year I am a year 5.
I'm a year 5.                        

2014 blog post

This is my first post for 2014. I am quite happy we can do it again.

My first 2014 blog post

This is my first poston this blog.I am excited.

2014 blog post

This is my second year posting on this blog. I am quite  happy that we can do it for the first time this year.

2014 1st post

I like to post on the computer even if it was my first time. This is my first time.

My first post

This is the first time on this blog. I am excited.

My first blog post

This is my first time I have posted on this blog. I think Ruma Kakapo the best class ever!

2014 first blog post of being a year 5

This is not my first post
I'm a year 5 this year but I was a year 4 last year
I'M A YEAR 5 !!!!!

Week 2 Term 1

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

It has been a wonderful start to the new year with “my” new Ruma Kakapo class.

 
Homework
This week we will start reading homework. Your child will bring home a reading book from their browsing box. If it’s a School Journal, they can choose a story or an article from it and read it.
After reading, they need to fill in their reading diary with the date, title of the book and a comment on the story.
There is also a daily homework sheet for maths this week. We are revising basic facts, so if you think the facts are too easy, it’s just because we are getting back into things.
 
Class Dojo
If you have signed up for this with last week’s newsletter, you should have received a report on Friday. It would be great if all parents could receive these reports by email. If you don’t have a computer, you can use our classroom computer to sign up. There is also an app that you can download onto your phone or ipad.
 
Meet the teachers
Your child will have notice to book a Meet the teacher-timeslot next week. Please sign and return to tomorrow, thanks.
 
Stationery
Thank you for getting the stationery to promptly. For those who haven’t got it yet, you can buy a box for $22 at the school office.
 
I look forward to meeting you next week. If you have any questions or concerns in the meantime, please see me or ring me at school.

 

Have a good week,
Annie Rehmann

Welcome to 2014!

Dear Parents and Caregivers,     

                                                                            

Welcome back to a new school year. I hope that you and your family have had a good holiday. The highlight of my holiday was a climb up to Mueller Hut near Mount Cook with my husband Ralph and my daughter June last week.

The mountains and glaciers were stunning, well worth the1800 steps up to the hut, and the knee-shattering climb (or shall I say, crawl) down.

It is always exciting to start Term 1 with a new class. I hope that your child is excited about coming back to school, even if it means getting up early again… 

Apart from welcoming the children who are coming to the senior school for the first time, I would also extend a warm welcome to Lauriann who joins us from Ireland, and Ava whom a lot of us already know through Kiwisport.

This year’s overarching focus is sustainability.  The learning area this term is health. Our inquiry will lead us to learn about how we can lead a sustainable lifestyle, ie food/nutrition, physical activity, relationships with others and physical safety.
We will be spending the first few weeks getting to know each other and creating a positive classroom learning environment.

Stationery

You can buy stationery packs at the office. If you still have items from last year (rulers, colouring pencils etc.) that you don’t need to purchase, you can tell Lenore or Kirsten at the office, and they can take them out of the box. 
Can you make sure all stationery is named please, including each coloured pencil. If your child still has a reading folder and/or spell-write booklet at home could they please bring it back as well. Thank you.

Swimming

From tomorrow on, we will be swimming every day at 10.30 am, weather permitting. Please make sure that your child has his/her togs every day, even if the weather does not look promising in the morning. If your child is unable to swim, could you please send a note along. Thank you. 

Class Dojo

Class Dojo is a web-based behaviour management system that I would like to trial in Ruma Kakapo this term. It looks appealing to children and sounds exciting to use. 

Attached you will find a note with a login to a website that allows you access to your child’s report. You can select to receive a daily report about your child’s behaviour. Children have their own login to change their avatar and look at their report. Please note that only you and I will be able to see your child’s report, nobody else. If you are unable to access the internet at home, you are most welcome to use our classroom computers. It would be great if you could send the attached slip back to school as soon as possible.

Thank you.

I would love to meet you (again) sometime in the next couple of weeks. Please feel free to pop in any time to introduce yourself. You are always welcome to come in and see your child ‘at work’.

Have a great first week,

Annie Rehmann

Questions 4 Rudolph

At school, Christmas is almost here and we have been doing "thinkers keys". There has been a lot of  thinking going on, and others have sang along to Christmas carols and having fun. (But they were still working too, so that is still okay.) I have done a question key so I would be prepared for an interview if I met Rudolph. Because, after all, I would be the interviewer and Rudolph, the reindeer that shall be interviewed. So, I have created 5      questions for him, and here they are.

Questions for Rudolph.

1. Is it a big honour being reindeer leader for you?
2. Were you ever bullied at school because of your nose?
3. Were you born with the glow Rudolph?
4. Did you ever have a hard life and thought of getting plastic surgery on your nose?
5. Do you like how your life is now?


Those were my questions 4 Rudolph. I hope you liked them, and remember, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

The reverse key

1. Undies

2. Socks

3. 1d cd

4. Justin Bieber cd

5. A pet mouse

6.a chicken

7.a little green bear

8.a flat rugby ball

9. A rat that is dead

 10. A dinosaur 

CHRISTMAS DAY

   10 Things I won't be doing on Christmas Day 

    1. I will not be at school.
    2. I will not sit on the toilet all day.
    3. I will not pull my hair out and eat it.
    4. I will not be in Austraila.
    5. I will not be staying in bed all day.
    6. I will not be at my art class.
    7. I will not be at the movies.
    8. I will not be trying to run round the world.
    9. I will not flush my presents down the toilet.
   10. I wilL not eat my Christmas tree.