What's Happening this week?

It’s great to be back to the wonderful area that we live in.  Thank you all so much for such a warm welcome back.  Like anything, all good things have to come to an end and we have fabulous memories from our time away and a few new friends too. Room 3 has done some amazing learning with our special Mrs Moors – we will all miss you Mrs Moors, thank you so much and all the best for the new opportunities in Dunedin.

We welcome Mrs Donaldson to our room on Tuesday, while I am released to do testing for children’s reports and the end of term information for Mrs Eastwood.

Unfortunately our blog doesn’t recognise me again as a contributor, so a hard copy in the homework books this week and I’ll blog as soon as I can.

Swimming: Thank you so much to those parents who have come to the pool to watch the fantastic progress our class is making with their swimming and to help with dressing afterwards.  Please note that we will be swimming at 12:30 instead of 12 on Tuesday 24^th – we have skating from 11 – 12 that day.

Hockey Tournament- Wednesday 18^th June: As a follow up to the hockey coaching that Mrs Flannery has done with all classes, there will be an inter house hockey tournament at the Pioneer Park Turf starting at 12:30. We will be taking our lunches to eat there – please join us.

Skating: begins next week. Tuesday 24^th, Thursday 26^th, Monday 30^th and Wednesday 2^nd.  We skate from 11 – 12, will travel by bus, but welcome any help that we can get for lacing and unlacing skates. Warm mufti these days – no skirts, with gloves to be worn on the ice at all times. Helmets are also compulsory and some are available at the rink if you don’t choose to bring your own well-fitted cycle helmet. Full information will be in the newsletter this week. Our coach will again be Canadian Andrew who was here two years ago.

Homework

Yes, I have all the books in the homework tray and took the time to check out what has been happening (or not happening as has been the case for some!)

Reading: There will be a book each night – even though I am getting old and forgetful!  Please enjoy sharing this book and record the reading in the log at the back of the book.  I expect each person to bring their book bag in each morning and share a page or two of their reading with me before putting their bag in the reading bag box.  This is called self-managing.

Spelling: Everyone has a spelling list in his/her homework book.  This list is to practise tooling, conducting, hearing the clean sounds, writing the letters correctly, sitting the writing on the line, then checking with the typed word – don’t forget to cover the word as you are recording what you can hear.  Spelling is not just a ‘copying out a list to learn the words’ activity.

Poetry Eisteddfods: These will be heard in the last week of term with the Eisteddfod assembly being at 2pm on Thursday 3^rd July. In class we are reviewing our poems for this year and practising up some of these again. Children may choose to say a class poem or one of their own choice. Please contact me if I can help in any way. We will be working on speaking slowly and clearly, knowing our poem by heart and using expression to make it exciting.

Finally, thank you so much to the PTA for covering the cost of RAPunzel – this was an outstanding performance – the children were totally absorbed in the story. I hope that you all heard plenty about this at the weekend. What a fantastic way to end a busy week.