Week 3

Monday: 

Tuesday: 

Library day.

Wednesday: 

School singing- 8.40am.

Thursday:

Kapa haka 2pm.

Friday: 

Mary MacKillop Feast day. Mass- 9am in the Church. Activities all day. Shared lunch. 

No Sausage sizzle today.

Spelling testing- to be confirmed.

Hi Parents.

It was great to catch up with you during Parent Interviews last week. Thank you so much for all of the positive feedback. The learning is going really well in our class with most of the children working at or above standard in reading, writing and maths. It goes to show what hard work at school in a safe learning environment and support from home can do!

If you didn’t have an interview time but would like to meet with me, please let me know. I am happy to make a time to do so.

Mary MacKillop Feast Day

This Friday we will celebrate Mary MacKillop day.  She is very important to our school and is our Patron Saint.  Mary came to NZ from Australia and realised there was a need for Catholic education in our area.  She started our school in the early 1900's and is a figure for us all to look up to.  

The day will start with Mass at 9am followed by some cool sharing and learning experiences.  We will have a shared lunch so please bring a plate of lunch food on Friday.  There will be no sausage sizzle this day.

Writing

This week we will continue learning how to write an explanation.  I did a pre-test with the children by asking them to explain why there is day and night, and we had some very interesting stories!  After sharing these we watched some learning clips and discussed our new understanding of why we have day and night. 

By the end of the term the children should  be able to follow the format to write an explanation of how or why something happens.  

Reading

The children have many opportunities to read during the day at school, but they need that extra practice at home. So please keep up the reading at home.

Homework

Homework will begin this week. I don't believe young children should have a lot of homework, but a bit of reading, spelling and maths is enough for this age.

For spelling your child needs to:

Look at the word

Say the word

Sound the word out

Cover the word

Write the word 

Check the word

Portfolios and RE books

Thank you to those children who have already given me theirs. If you haven't yet, please bring them in this week.

Library Lion Competition 

Mrs O'Leary has a competition on to name the new library lion. Click here to check out the library blog and register your name choice. You need to put your name choice for the lion in the comments section underneath the competition details - make sure you add your name and room 9. 

You have until Friday 7th August to submit your lion name.

Have a fantastic week 
Eliana