Week 7 Term 2

Thank you to those people who came and helped out at the triathlon. It was amazing to see the commitment on the faces of all our competitors as they tackled this challenge.  Congratulations everyone.
A great start to the week - we had all the poetry books at school!! Yippee!!
Today we welcomed Ms Tamati into our room. She added to our "Belonging" learning as she taught us about the Maori word for belonging turangawaewae. Ask your child about the parts in this word - tu (stand), waewae (feet). We also learned about how the Manuherikia River was named and have drawn about this in our Inquiry books. It's wonderful to have a local resource like Ms Tamati who can contribute to our learning.  As we move ahead in Inquiry we are finding out about our families. As we learn our mihimihi, Some people who have Maori descent may want to find out about their mountain, river and iwi.  Those of us who are of European or other ethnicity will use Kopuwai as our mountain and can choose between the Manuherikia or Clutha Rivers. Please take time to talk about your family members of past generations with your child. They will develop individual questions about what they want to find out over the next few days. With Anzac Day coming up during the holidays, it might be interesting to find any family links to this. Many families have interesting stories that have been passed down.
Newsletter this week will be on Thursday as Mrs Turnhout will be at a First Aid course with me on Wednesday. Ms Bennett will be teaching all morning.
Room 5 will be leading Wednesday Mass at 9:00am - please join the school for this celebration.
Goal Setting Interviews are Tuesday (3pm - 7pm) and Wednesday (2:30 - 5:30pm) next week. I would love to touch base with everyone.  I think 15 have booked so far.  If you haven't please go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz - the login is fbrcx. If you are unable to do this please phone Mrs Turnhout in the office and she will do this for you.

Friday = St Patrick's Day

Rooms 3 & 4 will be having a green shared lunch.  Please bring a small plate of food to share. To make the day a real celebration we'll wear green (not necessarily school uniform). Find out one fact about St Patrick to share with the class.

Homework

1. Reading; keep working on those reading logs - lots of people are up to the 25 nights stickers - 'way to go'.  The more you read, the better you get and the better you write."
2. Spelling: fantastic to see so many tooling and listening to the sounds in the list each night, the scoring full marks in the Friday test.  This week some people have begun the Level 3 list.
3. St Patrick's Day: 1 fact, green food, green fun clothes.
4. Scripture Reading Eisteddfod - super to hear that some people have chosen the story that they like and are thinking about what this story means to them.
5. Morning Programme: Ms Bennett is very excited about the wonderful topics people are choosing. I feel sad that I miss these wonderful presentations.

Looking forward to a great week of learning with the Room 3 bunch.