Week 6 Term 2

Over the halfway point of the term already.  Thank you to the children who shared our Autumn art work and their poems at mass on Sunday.
This week we are leading the Wednesday morning mass, we would love for you to join us in the church at 9am.
Swimming has been successful with all of us learning lots about water safety.  Last week we all made thank you cards for our instructors with a letter inside about what we have learned. Sue, the swim school co-ordinator was pleased to read about what the children have learned from their swimming, as this year the lessons have had very different learning objectives.
Skating starts next week Tuesday 13th. A reminder that we all need to wear warm clothing with gloves being a safety requirement for being on the ice, along with helmets which is a compulsory item specified on Ice-in-line's risk management. Recently the ice has looked fantastic and we are lucky that our skating sessions are in the morning from 10-11 am to take advantage of the best ice.  We will be travelling by bus with Room 4 year 4's. The total cost for skating will be $45.  This can be paid to the office please. Full skating information will be in the school newsletter.
Mr Hogue will be teaching Science on Tuesday morning. Unfortunately he was unwell last Wednesday so this is the catch up day.
Camp: Markelle and myself are working hard on the logistics of the ski camp (Thursday 31st August), and unfortunately had another door closed to us late on Friday.  We will call a parent meeting as soon as we have finalised everything.  This has been an ongoing process for us since February. Your patience is appreciated.

Homework: remember to read every night and practise the long 'i' spelling patterns. We are all getting so much more observant in our reading, and are noticing the spelling patterns in the words of the text. This helps us so much when we come to sampling words in our writing, using our tooling and knowledge of spelling patterns, where we generate several options, then as good readers choose the one that looks right.
Poetry Eisteddfod Monday 3 July: start your preparation now so that you do not need a piece of paper to read it from. As Year 3 & 4 we also need to give a short introduction, stating the title, the poet, why you chose this poem and anything you think might be interesting for Room 3 & 4 about the poet.  I am hoping that some of the poets may be YOU!!

Hoping you have had a wonderful weekend.  Still white outside as I write this but lovely and sunny.  Remember that it is full winter uniform now.