Monday Morning Prayer

Room 3 are leading this Monday morning in the church. Mason is reading and Hayvin and Annajhay also have leadership roles.  We would love any of you who are about to join us.

Cricket For Years 3 and 4

Those people who indicated that they were keen on joining the Saturday morning cricket team took a note from Shane Ryan home today.  It had a draw attached. Please make sure that you return the information to school or to Shane by next Tuesday 3rd February.

The note:

If your child is intending on playing cricket for the Molyneux Cricket Club this year can you please fill in these details below.  Practice will be at 5:30 on Wednesday nights at the cricket nets at Molyneux Park.  It is $20 a term.  For further information please contact Shane on 0212256261 or email on
shaneryan@newworld-si.co.nz


Player Name:

Address:

Email:

Date of Birth:

Parent Name and Cell Number:

Maths - Statistical Investigation

WALTs:

• ask a question to investigate, then gather information
• sort objects into categories
• display findings using a pictograph
• talk about the information on the graph
• compare the information on the graph
• ask questions about the data shown

 Our Question:

Who has the biggest feet in Room 3?

We traced our feet onto paper, then measured from the big toe to the heel - thank you Loretta for helping us to do this accurately.  We used point 5 to record 'half'.

We cut out our feet then worked together to sort them.  We solved the problem of "what can we do when some are the same size?" and made this pictograph by labelling each line of feet. A small group of children solved this problem after lots of talking, as they had thought that the feet could be put in a single line.

To finish our maths today we talked about what we could see that would help us answer our question,  "Who has the biggest feet?"  "Three people have the biggest feet.  We thought there would be just one person."

Other statements were:

The smallest sized feet are 18 centimetres long.

Three people have 19 centimetre feet.

Lots of people's feet are 19.5 centimetres.

More people had 19 centimetre feet than 18 centimetre feet.

We asked each other questions about what our display showed, and answered these from what we could see.

Sprinklers On Hot Days

Great that so many people remembered to bring togs and a towel so that they could cool off at the end of the day today.  Please bring these each day next week too, and if it is hot and sticky we will end the day with a cool off.

Reading Bags & Reading Books

Several people have reading books at home over the holidays given to them by either Mrs Wright or myself.  Could you please make sure that these come back to school this week?

Not everyone will take home a reading book this week as Mrs Wright is doing a stock take of junior reading books.  Please share a book at home together - reading to your child is important too.  Write up what you shared in the reading log at the back of the homework book.

Book bags need to be placed in the yellow box each morning before school.  Each child needs a book bag that will fit their homework book (project book) and a reader or journal.  These bags help to protect books going home from those accidental spillages and keep everything together.

Thanks for your help with this.

Welcome To Room 3 2015

28 January 2015

Welcome to Room 3 and to a new block in the school for the year 2 children.

Room 3 Blog: I usually put up a weekly blog on a Monday night after staff or syndicate meetings.  If other things come up in between, I will put up an extra post. Once the term calendar is confirmed this will also be there for easy reference to the dates that involve this class.

This week we will doing activities to help us get to know each other, get along together and take responsibility for our own learning.

Brain Food/School Milk: Please ensure that your child has a piece of unprocessed fruit or vegetable each day for brain food.  Please let me know if your child will not be having school milk.

Mr Milford will be working with us to reinforce our bus and road safety skills next week.  There will be a road safety test in the afternoon of Monday 9^th February where we will need the assistance of parents.  If you are available, please email me.

Swimming: Years 1 – 4 will be preparing for the swimming sports with afternoon swim sessions Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 February. The swimming sports will be held at the pool on Monday 23^rd February beginning at 9:00. Junior swimmers will have races in the therapeutic pool between 10 – 11am. Transport to and from the pool will be by bus.

Sunhats: need to be worn this term and in term 4. No hat = no play.  Children may choose something to do under the classroom verandah.

Your child will have a nightly reading log (Monday to Thursday), which I would ask you to please sign as this helps your child to take some responsibility for their learning as they read and tell you about the story. Their poetry book will come home on a Friday. There will be spelling to learn and study ladder maths, as the term goes on. This will be individualised.

Study Ladder: many year 2 children will be very familiar with this free learning site. Glued into the front of the homework book is your child’s user name and password. www.studyladder.co.nz  Please be sure to log in to this site by 6^th February.  By doing this your child will be given greater access to home activities.  If this is not possible, please contact me so that I can make sure that your child logs in for the first time here at school. At present I have not set any tasks on this site.

Scooters etc: during school time these need to be stored behind the seats in front of the classroom windows. No scooters in the corridor during the day or lying on the path outside.  After school scooters & wheels can be left in the corridor to be locked up over night. Remember that ‘wheels’ are for term 1 and 4 only.  There are 2 scooters and 1 red bike in my corridor since last year. Whose are these?

My email address is: chrisbeilby@stgerards.school.nz  and cellphone 021 449296 for emergencies.

I am really excited about what is planned for this year, and am looking forward to working with you and your children as they continue on their learning journey.

Chris