What's happening Week 8

My apologies for not posting a "what's happening" last week.  We got off to a fantastic start with St Patrick's Day.  Thank you Reilly's for some wonderful books to read.  We worked on Leprechaun maps last week - check these out in our poetry books. We learned some basics about mapping skills and put these into practice.  Hope you can spot the treasure on the map, by looking at the key.  We also showed that we were pretty sharp at our Leprechaun Orienteering course which potted us all some gold on Monday afternoon.  Thank you to those people who popped a gold coin donation into the Caritas box as their mufti donation.

This week will be the  leprechaun traps - sorry I forgot that we were all in Dunedin at a course last Friday.  Bring on the bits & bobs for this making time on Friday.

A reminder that this Thursday is the "You, Me & Us" Parent Community Meeting at 7:30pm.  Hope to see you there as we listen to the parent body.  I attended an excellent session at "The Gathering" on Friday about establishing Restorative Justice practices in schools.  This will sit beautifully alongside what we have already planned.

Last week we worked through spelling lists in class, making sure that we all knew exactly what "LOOK, SAY, SOUND, COVER, WRITE" means.  We looked at identifying the hard bits in a word to put in the 'to learn' column. It is just so important that each night this is the process, and of course to check after the word is written that it is correct. Next week some people will bring home a list to tool and learn.

Eisteddfods: this is the week to work on learning your prayer (year 2) or preparing your reading (year 3).  Please see me if you need help as I will give you a prayer or reading.  These will be heard on Monday 7th April.

Wow, the term is flying past.  It is great to see so many of you pop in to the classroom for a chat or for your children to share their work with you.  Please remember that all poetry books need to come back on a Monday, and Homework books every day so that I can put stickers in there when children read their favourite page of their reading book to me before school.