Term 4 - Discovery

Discovery time is an opportunity for your child to choose from a range of activities some of which are not offered during the normal course of the day.  Your child is encouraged to try different things.  The Key Competencies: Thinking, Relating to Others, Understanding texts and symbols, Managing Self and Participating and Contributing are embedded through Discovery time, as are the School Values.

Term 4 - Published Writing

WALT:

Publish our writing

Criteria:

·      Re-read our draft so that it makes sense

·      Go back and fix up mistakes

·      Copy our draft work correctly

·      Use our neatest hand writing  

Term 4 - Dance/Drama Integrated Topic

WALT:

Express ourselves creatively through dance

Criteria:

·      Learn the steps to the dance

·      Keep in time to the music

·      Follow instructions

Value Focus: (Excellence)

·      To try our best

·      To persevere

·      Acknowledge the efforts of others

Term 4 - Oaklands School CARE VALUES

I show the Community  value when I play nicely with people and look after  school property.

I use the  Active Thinking value when I make good choices and follow instructions.

I demonstrate the Respect value when I sit nicely on the mat.

I show the  Excellence value when I try my hardest.

Reading:

These are some of the things I think a good reader does:

• They fix up mistakes as they read
• They re-read to help make sense
• They read fluently

Soulin's MIhi

Te Reo Maori Mihi

We are learning to:

• Introduce ourselves in Te Reo Maori
• Communicate personal information, such as our name, parents' and grandparents' names and home town in Te Reo Maori

To be successful we need to:

• Speak clearly and fluently
• Use short simple sentences of Te Reo Maori to communicate personal information.

Gymnastics:

We are learning a range of balancing, rolling, jumping and travelling movements to incorporate into a floor routine.

Criteria:

• To incorporate at least two balancing movements
• To incorporate at least one jumping movement
• To incorporate at least one rolling movement