Monday 20th April 2015

Welcome back to school!  Hopefully your families have had some quality time together over the holidays.  Mrs Beilby will be away for the next two weeks.  If you have any questions regarding your child please feel free to pop into Room 3 or send me an email.

My address is carolynlyon@stgerards.school.nz

Important dates for this term - these will probably be added to, so please keep looking at the blog and reading the notices.
Monday 27th April - ANZAC Day, school closed.
Sunday 10th May - 9am, School Mass - Mother's Day.
Monday 1st June, Queens Birthday, school closed.
Friday 15th May - Michael Mangan visit.  Michael Mangan writes a lot of our praise songs.

Homework
For the next two weeks homework will mostly reading books which the children will bring home from their instructional reading at school.  There may be some spelling words in the homework books for next week.  Today I tested the levels just to clarify groups.

Our Inquiry focus for this term will be initially focussed around ANZAC Day and the ww100 celebrations which are happening nationwide during 2015.  Our reading, writing and inquiry/arts will include lots of learning about what life was like for families 100 years ago in New Zealand and how we can compare this to life here today.  While the focus will be skirting around the First World War the children will mostly be looking at family and community life in New Zealand during the war.
Today we ate some ANZAC cookies and talked about how they got their name.

Have a great week.

Carolyn