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media type="custom" key="8701406" Willowbank's 10 Years Celebration

=ASB New Zealand Maths Challenge= 26th August []

__Helpful Tips When Reading With Your Children:__



=__**Literacy and Goal Sharing Open Afternoon**__=

Dear Parents,

On Thursday the 31st of March you are invited to Willowbank School’s open afternoon. Your children will be sharing their learning journeys (learning goals) and we will be demonstrating what a typical reading programme looks like.

Our classroom will be open to visitors from 1:30pm until 2:45pm.

The afternoon is a time for your children to share their learning and celebrate their successes with you. Please be respectful that it is still learning time for the children and there will be no opportunity to converse one on one with me about your child’s progress. However if you wish to do so, please make an appointment to meet with me.

See you all on Thursday,

Miss Varcoe


 * __ Joining Room 24 Wiki __**

Dear Parents,

We have recently started a “Wiki” for our class. For those who don’t know, it is an interactive website that we can all contribute to. Could you please help your child sign up to our wiki so that they can have access to their own page. First thing is that you need to open an account with Wikispaces. [|http://wikispaces.com]

After you have done that, ask to join the room24twentyfour24.wiki. The URL for our wiki is http://room24twentyfour24.wikispaces.com/.

Your child will require a username and password. To help keep it simple, please use their mathletics details. If your child is not a member of mathletics please choose another memorable user name and password.

Once this is done your child will have access to our wiki and their own page. Although they will have access to all pages, we respectfully ask that they do not change anything that another person has done.

If you have a query, e-mail me on hvarcoe@willowbankschool.co.nz and I will try to help you as I am also learning too. Between us all, we can turn this into a wonderful learning experience. Looking forward to seeing what we can produce. Yours sincerely

Halina Varcoe Room 24 Teacher

    

**__ Room 24’s Home Learning Expectations __**
On Monday’s your child will bring home 10 spelling words to learn over the week. These are spelling words that they have selected themselves according to the weekly spelling focus. Your child will be tested on these words on Friday’s.

Your child is expected to read for 20 minutes each night, either a book of their choice or one they have selected themselves from their group reading box. A whole book may take your child up to a week to read. Your child is responsible for managing themself by making sure they change their book when needed.

Mathletics is ongoing again this year and the goal is to achieve 1000 points per week. On occasions, other basic facts may be included alongside the spelling words in their notebook.

I set homework challenges throughout the year and these are **__optional__**. The homework challenges allow the children to research, gather and sort information to become an expert. Our experts have the opportunity to teach the class and help us all develop our general knowledge.