By Kirsty Paehua | Posted: Monday January 30, 2017
The holidays are over, I hope you all enjoyed your break and got a chance to have some R & R.
Welcome back to Room 5 in 2017. For those of you that don't know me, my name is Kirsty Anderson and I have been teaching here at Kaikorai Primary for 8 years. I am a very passionate maths teacher. In my spare time I enjoy being able to ride my horses.
Starting out this term we will spend some time getting to know each other as a class and playing our new KAIK GO game that focuses on the school values and learning teachers names, before moving onto our major concept of sustainability.
Parents often have questions about homework. In Room 5 you can expect your child to have 10 spelling words to learn each week (this can be done independently or with a parent or sibling), Mathletics or Xtramaths or some other basic facts based programme and Reading. Children should spend no more than 20 minutes on homework each night. This term homework will start in Week 3 although it usually starts in Week 1 every other term. The last week of each term is a homework free week.
Some children will have a book from me to read every night and others will have a book from me two-three nights a week. On nights children don’t have a book from me they are expected to read for at least 10 minutes.
Those who receive a book every night should also
spend time reading a book of their choice so that they are also reading for at
least 10 minutes each night.
Some weeks there will be an extra task related to what we are learning in class.
“Extra for experts” is an alphabet themed research task that is an optional activity for children to complete and present in any way that they choose.
Please remember if you wish your child to be excused from homework or if it is unable to be completed to call, email or send a signed note to school.
Our library days are Mondays and Thursdays and children will need to return their books to class. It is helpful if school readers are returned to school quickly so that they can be returned and used by other classes.
If you would like to contact me, feel free to come in before or after school, email or call me at school. If you have an urgent message please be sure to call rather than e-mail.
Kirsty Anderson