Thank you everyone who attended mass this morning, and a special thank you to Jada who read the prayer of the faithful as our class representative. It was an exciting end to see the Evangelisation Team share a liturgical dance. This group of young people will share with the school/parish at the 9am Wednesday mass, then work in class over the morning. I look forward to their input.
Reading Logs: Thank you for the comments written in these - this is a great avenue for home/school communication. After reading these I checked the browse boxes again and found that we are still "learning to put our books back in the correct box" - this explains why a couple of people took home difficult texts. I also continued to tweak the reading groupings last week so maybe some people were confused as to their group. There is a clear list on the wall now to help us out! Having hoped to have limited the number of groups it is clear that I am unable to do this for a start, which means that I will not be seeing every group every day, but you can expect a text home every night from the browse box.
Spelling: It was wonderful to have Zoe and Maisie (Dunstan High School Work Day) to help us on Friday as we completed our first spelling test and independent tooling of our list for this week. I taught both of them in Year 5/6 when Mrs Eastwood first introduced Spelling Alive to school, so they were able to ably assist. There are still quite a number of people not secure in how this is to be done so we will do our spelling again in class this week. It is important that the spelling is tooled carefully and we learn the process of how to listen to sounds and record them in order, rather than just focus on a product of 5 correctly spelled words for the Friday test.
Swimming Sports: For those children swimming in the main pool races, entries will be taken by Wednesday. If there are any parents (other than Pippa) who wish to have their children entered in these races, please email me by Tuesday. The events are 1 length freestyle, backstroke or breaststroke. A championship race is where strokes must be correct and no stopping. Non-championship, people can stop and have a break and exact technique is not so important. Any Year 3 children would be entered in "9 and under" age group. Age as at 9th March. Our last 2 swimming sessions are Tuesday and Thursday this week.
Assembly 2:10 Friday: Rooms 3 & 4 will lead this. We kindly swapped with Rooms 1, 2 & 7 as they will be away on camp.
Does anyone have any stories of Rangi and Papa at home that we can share. This week we are looking at comparing retold texts. We will also be looking at the family tree of Rangi and Papa as part of our Inquiry about Belonging. This is out Maori link, as well as writing a descriptive text from our "visualisation" of what we think one of the gods might look like. Visualisation is a reading skill which is a focus for us.
As a class we are continuing to focus on self management of both on task work, but also how we move about the classroom and get ourselves organised for activities. This is challenging for some at present but we will help each other. On a Monday morning we bring our book bag into the classroom, Glue our new poem into our poetry book and put our poetry book into the poetry box. We also make sure that we have put our chair out and have our pencil case on our desk with a sharp pencil ready to go. Tools of the trade!
Homework: Reading and enjoying texts at home. Great to see some people making a great start to 100 days of reading. keep this up.
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