Weekly Notice - Week 7

Hi everyone, sorry my notice is late this week, I was a  bit preoccupied with J Rock this last weekend.  Now that is all done and what a super day and night it was too, here we go for week 7.....

*Writing -  this week we are writing Reports - factual stories to share information.  We started to day with some research on Recycling and are hoping the end result will be some lovely, informative posters we can put up around the place about the need to recycle.  We are focusing on capital letters, full stops, sticking to the facts and writing paragraphs.  

*Mathematics - we will continue our unit on addition and subtraction this week with a focus for the Stage 4 and 5 kids on splitting numbers to help add and subtract.  

For example:

If the number story was 23-6=   we might ask the kids to split 6 into 3+3 then take 3 away from 23 to make 20 (tidy number) and then take a further 3 away to make 17.  

 I am trying to get them to see the equation and be able to use facts they already know to solve it. Obviously to do this they need to know their facts to 10 instantly.   We are talking about being efficient (quick and easy) and effective (getting to the answer) mathematicians.

*Reading - we are going really well with reading.  Keep up that lovely home reading and and remember to read to your child every day.  If they read extra books, write them in their reading log too.

*Juicies and Sausages - just a reminder that juicies are now $1.50 so it is $3 for a sausage and a juicy rather than $2.50.

*Golden Time this week will be a movie and popcorn.

*We have photos this Friday.  Please ensure your child is in their correct winter uniform and that you have your photo order in by Thursday at 12.30.
I will check hair etc before we are photographed so send a brush if you are worried your darling might need a touch up.

*Our lovely Oli is going to be leaving us at the end of the term for an exciting adventure in Scotland with his family. While we are truly excited for them all, we will most certainly miss Oli and I will be particularly sad to see my special "cat" family go.  Who will go home with the Russell strays now?  Sooo, we are going to have a party for Oli and give him a super duper Room 13 send off.  I will send more details out asap.

Nicola looked after our class yesterday while I was out at J Rock and she said and I quote, "wow, what an awesome class".  I said, "um of course, we are the best class in the school!"  Thank you for encouraging your kids to be well mannered, to work hard and to treat new people to our class with respect.   It makes me very proud when I hear they have had a great day with a reliever.

Have a great week,
Annie