Week 3, Term 3

Hi everyone, welcome back to Week 3!  Ooh I had such a great night on Saturday at dancing with the stars.  Its so great getting dressed up and sharing an evening with friends, I even go to see my daughter Lilly dance which was the icing on the cake.   I hope you all had a super weekend too.

Here we go for Week 3.....

*Tomorrow we are making a rocket!  It was our Golden Time Activity but because we only have half an hour, it wasn't long enough to research the rocket, put it together and launch it.  Therefore we will do this Monday.  The kids are super excited and we are going to make it a competition to see who's rocket launches the best.

*In the morning at 9am we have a visiting show in the hall, Hiwi the Kiwi.  The show has a lovely environmental message and will go for around 3/4 of an hour.

*Next week on the 16th we have a visiting author coming to talk to and interact with the Year 2's.  After her talk, she will take a group of writers to engage in a writers workshop.  We are excited to have Jennifer with us, the author of some lovely Tales from the Farm stories.  She will share her books The day dad blew up the Cow shed, The Eel hunt and a Very Greedy tale with us.

*Go4it - we have Go4it on Thursday after lunch. Thank you to all the parents who have been sending shorts with their girls, it certainly is much easier for them to jump around.

*Mass Friday at 9am - Mary MacKillop day.  We also have some fun activities planned for Friday to celebrate this very special day and would like to invite you all to a shared lunch in Room 13.  Please could everyone bring a plate of lovely healthy food to share on that day.

*Reading - it was great to see some of our kids receive prizes in the Holiday Reading Draw.  Well done to Laine, Makenna and Chloe!
Keep up the great home reading and remember we are focusing on comprehension so do ask your kids a couple of questions requiring them to think about the story, after they have read.

*Maths - This week we are focusing on Addition and Subtraction.  Many of the kids are separating tens and ones now which is super.  Those children will be working on change unknown:

eg There were 37 kids on the school bus when it left St Mary's.  The bus stopped once at JPC on the way.  When it reached its final stop, there were 184 kids on board.  How many kids got on at the JPC stop?

The kids need to understand that we have the final number (184) and that we need to get from 1378-184 by finding the missing number.  Tricky business.


*Writing  - Tomorrow we will be writing recounts about our rocket launch.  We will then write an explanation so that others can launch their own rockets, as well as a fact sheet of "need to knows" for rocket launching.

*R.E - this week we will be working on getting to know Mary Mackillop, who she was, what she did and why she is important to us here at St Mary's.

Keep up that super parenting, and have a great week,
Annie