Kia Ora and welcome to Room 1 2024.

 Hi, my name is Lisa Walker and I have the awesome job of teaching 30 enthusiastic and creative Year 5 and 6 students.  

Welcome to Term 4

 Our learning focus this term is:

Health and PE: Focus on preparing for our school athletics event.

Maths:  Using a range of strategies to solve fraction, ratio, decimal and percentage questions.

Writing: Descriptive writing with the focus on using a range of figurative language to help paint an image in the readers mind and  persuasive writing. Persuasive writing where students will learn different techniques to help support their point of view.

Reading: Developing our comprehension, vocabulary and summarising skills. We will be reading a range of fiction and non-fiction texts.

Arts: Drama, singing and dance - Our school production is called Aotearoa History.

Topic: We are looking road safety and emergency safety covering earthquakes and fire topics.

 For myself as a teacher, I believe in working alongside my students to help them to achieve their goals to the best of their ability.   Our classroom is a room where mistakes are seen as opportunities for learning and personal growth, where we are hard working, creative, we work together to show our Roar values and we have fun.

Every Monday, students will set up their homework for the week -  the homework is made up of a language activity, reading for 15 minutes each night,  basic fact problems and at times, some research or topic work. 

Have a great day !

Lisa Walker