Week 5 Term 4

Thank you to those of you who were able to join us for assembly on Friday. The children could have used the whole afternoon with all that they wanted included in the assembly.  We talked about what we could share on Monday. Well done everyone - very proud of you all.

This week is Thyme Festival, we are booked to look at the exhibits on Tuesday afternoon, so I would like to take the class down at 12:00 to enjoy the Lunchtime Concert - Free -  Dunstan High School Junior Performing Arts, Year 9/10 music students. Amazing talent. Music, Drama & Dance. We will take our lunches (weather permitting) then look around the activities on offer, children's Art Exhibition (have you seen the art on the front windows of the school? - they are the entries from our school), artists working with students, scarecrows, enviro tent, scavenger hunt in Central Stories Museum and to look at Kopuwai and read the Maori legend attached to this.  We all say "Ko Kopuwai te maunga" in our mihimihi. (our mountain). Are there some parents able to accompany us to this event please?

On Thursday the whole school will be performing at the lunchtime concert.  We will be singing 3 songs from the musical. There's A Party Here Tonight, Not All It's Cracked Up To Be and Happy Ever After.  Please sing over these for homework so that you know all the words.  Happy ever After sounded fantastic at assembly.

I will be attending a maths course on Thursday afternoon - at this stage Mrs Eastwood will be bringing the class back from the park, and I have a day for maths testing on Friday - we welcome Mrs Lyon to Room 3.

Reading: I have a different reading programme working with 2 of my more able reading groups.  I see them twice a week, where we discuss what we are reading, question each other and delve into the deeper meaning of the texts. One of these groups also does "reciprocal reading" where they manage the group reading themselves by using an instruction sheet with questions and the process.  If anyone wants to see how this works please pop in to the classroom and I'm happy to share the process. These people may be bringing home a book from their browse box or they may choose to be reading their library book - I would still like to see what they are reading in their reading logs.

Spelling: "ou" sound. Hard to keep this programme going when I only have 17 out of 24 homework books at school on Friday.  Each spelling sheet has 2 week's spelling on it - we tool the spelling on Fridays, so 7 people have not got this completed as we head into the new week.  Very time consuming trying to catch up on people, as I want to see all lists before they go home.  I am also on duty on Monday lunch times. Some help with this would be really appreciated.

Mihimihi: please work hard on these as we are preparing to visit the wharenui at Dunstan High School on Thursday 27th.

Singing Eisteddfods: Room 3 will be presenting these on Monday 8^th December.

Another busy week. The term is flying.