Term 2 Week 2

Welcome to another week of online learning. Thank you to all of the families for supporting your children throughout these times. We understand it is difficult, especially with our young ones! We really appreciate all of the great parent stories uploaded onto Educa and have been tracking all of the students on Lexia. Some of you would have received your Lexia Superstar awards via Educa too!!

There has been some talk of reopening schools at Level 3. Please be assured that as soon

as a decision is made we will let our whole school community know.

A reminder of our weekly timetable during the online learning period:

Monday/Wednesday - Reading Focus

Tuesday/Thursday - Writing Focus

Friday - Poem

Bingo Board - a choice of nine activities that you can do with your children throughout the

week. These cover a range of curriculum areas which reflect the play provocations that we

do in Kakano during normal class times. This will be on Educa

RE - Our focus for RE this week is Holiness. We have included some activities that you can

do with your children.

Maths - We will set up a problem for the children to work on for the week.

Please let us know if you require any help! The teachers are all available during normal

school hours. It is a good idea to reach us via email first and we can give you a call if

needed.

Thank you again for all of your help. 

We hope that you have another great week.

RE

Focus on Holiness

Finish the sentences:

• Friends are holy people when they….
• Parents are holy people when they…
• Teachers are holy people when they…
• Priests are holy people when they….

You are holy. Children can have some quiet time and say this to them.

Be very still and quiet

inside and outside your body.

Close your eyes.

Put your hand on your heart.

Feel God in your holy place.

Let God’s grace fill you with

 God’s life of holiness and love

Activity:

Identify holy objects that we use to pray with and to use for our prayer focus. Set up a prayer focus.

Take photos of this to share with us!

Reading Logs.
Thank you to everyone who has sent a photo of your child's reading log.  If you can take a photo or send me a list of the books they read over the holidays they will go into the reading log draw.

Video Calls
I have really enjoyed talking to some of the children and look forward to talking to more this week. I will try and set up a group call so we can see all our friends in one call.  Please let me know if you are wanting your child to join in on this.  We will have this on Friday morning.

Have a lovely week and don't hesitate to contact me if you need any support. Best contact is email lorrainet@stmarysrotorua.school.nz I can then email you back or give you a call.
Lorraine