Week 3

Happy Birthday to Bronson who is turning 7 on Sunday. 
I hope you have a fun day!🎂

Congratulations to our lucky winners of the Reading Log draw...

We were lucky with the weather last week and managed to swim everyday. The water was lovely and warm. No swimming this week.

I will be testing the children's reading this week. On Monday, instead of our normal reading groups, the children will have free choice reading and a poem.

The Junior school is leading the Rosary on Wednesday morning. We have four readers from Room 13. I'm sure Jun, Bianca, Chloe and Shubh will do a wonderful job. Parents are very welcome to attend.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

8.45 Rosary - led by the Junior school

Thursday

10am All Souls/Saints liturgy

Friday

Golden time - Nerf/soft ball tag

Assembly

Note for your diary : Grandparent's Mass. Friday 10th November. Please come and celebrate this special day with us.

Term 4 Week 2

Week 2
Firstly a big "Well done" for running the Assembly on Friday.  It's not easy to stand up and talk/sing to the whole school. Everyone did their part perfectly.  I was so proud of you all!

On Tuesday we welcomed Faith into our class. She has settled in nicely and is making some lovely new friends.

Next week we start swimming. Please make sure all of your clothes are named including sunhats.

Reading logs are due back by Wednesday. We only have 9 returned in the class so far! There are some great prizes to be won.

On Saturday there is a working bee at school beginning at 8.00am. There are a range of handy-man jobs to be done and help would be appreciated (even for an hour or so). Morning tea and a BBQ lunch will be provided. 

It is a busy term ahead with lots going on. I will keep you up to date with important events. 

Monday 23rd October
Labour Day  - no school

Tuesday 24th October
Swimming

Wednesday 25th October
8.45am Rosary - led by the Middle school.
Reading logs due back
Swimming

Thursday 26th October
Swimming

Friday 27th October
Swimming
Assembly  - Room 16 and 17

Saturday 28th October
8.00am Working bee at school

Term 4 Week 1

I hope everyone has had a lovely holiday. I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow in summer uniform. Remember to bring a sun hat too!

This term is only 9 weeks long and it will be a very busy one. Here is a quick overview of what we will be learning in class...

Maths - Our focus will be on consolidating our addition and subtraction knowledge and strategies. We will continue to develop confidence in problem solving abilities and also look at measurement.

Writing -  We will write in a variety of genres, our main focus being Recount and Narrative writing.

Reading - Our reading program will continue as last term, making sure we have all our reading strategies in place and extending our knowledge through independent literacy follow up activities. 

R.E -  October - Rosary
         Holy Spirit and then Advent.

Concept - Our concept this term is Symbols, messages within images.

We will be swimming this term on even weeks starting in week 2. Our swimming time is 12-12.30pm except on Wednesdays, when we will swim after lunch. The pool is very warm.

This week it is our turn to run the school assembly. Parents are most welcome to attend at 2.05pm.

Please can you return R.E books and portfolios to class this week.


Monday 16th October
Welcome back to school.

Tuesday 17th October

Wednesday 18th October
8.45pm Rosary in the hall, led by the Seniors.

Thursday 19th October 

Friday 20th October
Room 13's Assembly!

Week 10 - Sharing some of our work from this week.

Congratulations to Jess, Makenna and Sophie for their wonderful effort at Migs gym competition last week. They were so proud to tell us all about it.

We have been looking at the language of Instructional writing. On Wednesday, we followed instructions to make a mustard seed head.

The instructions said that if we are careful not to over water the seeds, they would be grown in about 3 days. We couldn't believe it would be that quick!  Anyhow, we left them close to the window over the weekend and this was the result of Monday...

Today we discussed the Spring season. We watched a lovely video about what happens in the change from Winter to Spring. With our information, we wrote Acrostic poems and displayed them with some cute baby bird artwork. They look stunning on the classroom wall. Please come in and take a look.

Lost Property -Jessica has lost her school jersey. Please can you have a check that your child has the right one. There are still lots of girl's school socks in class, if you are missing any!

Week 10

Almost there... the children are still working hard in the class, although I am sure they are ready for the school holidays!

We seem to have a lot of girl's socks without homes. I will put them in a tub at the back of the class if anyone would like to claim them.

The children will be bringing home their portfolios and R.E books on Friday to share with you.  Please may we have them back in the class during the first week of Term 4.

It is important that we keep up with our reading during the holidays. Reading logs will be sent home this week.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday
8.45am Whole school singing

Thursday
Go for it!
Kapa Haka

Friday
Sausage sizzle/Juicies
Portfolios and R.E books go home.

Have a great break, Stay safe and I look forward to seeing you in your summer uniform in Term 4.

Reminder:

Forms for parent input into 2018 class placements were issued the week before last to each student. Parents  - please note these forms need to be returned by Friday 29 September if you wish us to consider your input. The forms need to be returned to the big blue postal box in the student foyer.

Thanks to those parents who have already returned the form for their child/ren.

If you have mislaid or not seen the form you can collect a copy from the School Office or go to this link  

Week 9

Happy Birthday to Sebastian who is celebrating his birthday today (Saturday).
We enjoyed your fidget spinner shaped biscuits on Friday!

Some highlights from last week.

We are working hard in Maths and making those little brains think!

We are solving simple multiplication and division problems by counting all the objects, moving to using our knowledge of skip-counting in twos, fives and tens.  We learn to divide by sharing objects equally.

 We are developing our knowledge through group and individual work.

In our Concept learning this week, we started looking at life cycles. We chose the 'Fantastic Frog' to research first. Your children found so many amazing facts that we were able to put them together as a very interesting report. We then looked at the life cycle - Wow, they are amazing little creatures. Ask your child if they can remember the stages from egg to adult frog.
So with all this great writing, we had to find a way of displaying it...

In Go For It, Tim taught us how to throw and catch correctly. It was so much fun.

On Friday, Laine brought a friend to school for Golden Time. Meet Wayne the wombat...

WEEK 9

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Singing 8.45am

Thursday

Kapa Haka

PTA disco 5.30 -7pm

Friday

Assembly

Gym Competition

Week 8

This week is Maori Language week.

Monday 11th September


Tuesday 12th September


Wednesday 13th September
8.45am Singing
Steam puddings with custard for sale, $2 each.

Thursday 14th September
Go For It!
Kapa Haka

Friday  15th September
Room 7's Assembly
Pacifika Practice
Golden time


On Friday, it was Epiphany's last day with us in Room 13. She is moving with her family to Australia. We will miss you Epiphany!

On Friday, we attended The Nativity of Mary Mass. Sophie was chosen to read a Prayer of the Faithful. She was well prepared and spoke with confidence. Well done Sophie!

Last week in our writing, we wrote a report on a new planet. Our learning intention was to use adjectives (describing words) and relate our new planet to what we already know about the solar system.

It was so enjoyable hearing the children tell of their new planet. A few children mentioned that it was very hot on their planet as it was close to the sun.  Liebling's planet is made of shiny metals. Zak's planet is next to Jupiter and the liquids on it are water and melted diamonds! Laine's planet has wombats living on it. They have to wear gas masks because there is lava, water, ice and Molten Emeralds.  

To complete this topic we spent Golden time making the space ships that can land on this planet.

The children's report writing and creations will be displayed on our classroom wall next week.