What an amazing group of parents and kids we have in our Kakano 1, 2, 3 whanau. It’s been fantastic to see you online again and you’re all doing a great job with your phonics. We are blown away by the creations you are posting on Educa - keep them coming. We love seeing how your imaginations are taking off with our learning challenges.
This week is Tongan Language Week. Malo e lelei is hello in Tongan. Nofo a is goodbye in Tongan. Fefe hake? is how are you? These greetings are informal greetings in the Tongan language. If you would like to learn some more phrases this website - Useful Tongan Phrases - is helpful. Here is a link to the Tongan Alphabet Song and Tongan Welcome Song.
Level 3
We are staying in Level 3 until Monday when we will hear from Aunty Jacinda about what our next step is. We are all prepared for another week of online learning - if this ends up being the case. Should we be lucky enough to return to school during the week - we are prepared for this too.
Help for others
There may be families in the community that you know of who need some help and assistance. Please let us know of any families you think we can support at this time.
Phonics online
WOW! The children have taken off with our structured literacy programme and are right into the new way of learning phonics. We are going to continue our phonics programme this week and move into doing a lesson a day. If you miss a day please don’t panic. Each new lesson recaps what was taught the previous day, before moving into a new skill to learn. Please let your child’s teacher know which times and days suit best for you and your whanau - you can book the whole week at once if you wish to or you can send a daily email. This will help us to know who to send the invites to, as each new meeting has a different code generated.
Sunshine Reading
Well done to those of you who have done your reading and reading activities in Sunshine Books. We will assign new books this coming week for you to try.
Superkid Awards
St Mary’s School had another virtual assembly this week. These are the children from Kakano 1, 2 and 3 who received a Super Kids award. Great work Super Kids! Here is the link to our online assembly.
Learning slides
The slides below will outline the learning for the week, update you on anything new and offer times for your child to meet with us online. You are most welcome to join us for these sessions, especially the Monday chats. The Monday meetings will outline the learning for the week and will act as a check in to see how we are all going. Please advise your child’s teacher which days/times you would like to join us. You can do this in one email or daily emails.
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