A wee reminder that we are the host classes at assembly tomorrow. We will be sharing our amazing writing and visualisation of this. Love for you to come.
On Monday it is our turn to lead Monday morning prayer in the church. Ms Bennett will be taking the class to this. Eden, Liam, Zack and Tara will be reading, while Bella B and Charlotte O will be the prayer leaders at the beginning and the end.
Lots more jobs at church next week as we are also scheduled to be the class to lead at the Ash Wednesday Mass at 9:00am. Please join us in this special celebration of the marking of ashes which marks the beginning of Lent.
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Swimming Sports Entries
Quite an excited group swam lengths in the main pool today and are very keen to do this at the sports. I have seen them all swim in lane 6 today, and feel that they are capable of swimming in the non-championship event. I will arrange to have a senior student in the lane with some of them on the day of the sports.
Julie and I talked about how the sports will work on Tuesday and agreed that if these children are entering in main pool events, they will not be swimming in the junior sports events as well. I spoke to the children involved at the end of the day and all were very keen to swim in the main pool events. The children involved are: Pippa, Bella D, Charlotte O, Amelia, Tara, Lily, Tamai, Eden and Jedi.
These children will be entered in the non-championship freestyle and backstroke races in the 9 and under age group. Please contact me if you wish to have your child swim solely in the junior sports in the therapeutic pool.
See you all on Tuesday.
Julie and I talked about how the sports will work on Tuesday and agreed that if these children are entering in main pool events, they will not be swimming in the junior sports events as well. I spoke to the children involved at the end of the day and all were very keen to swim in the main pool events. The children involved are: Pippa, Bella D, Charlotte O, Amelia, Tara, Lily, Tamai, Eden and Jedi.
These children will be entered in the non-championship freestyle and backstroke races in the 9 and under age group. Please contact me if you wish to have your child swim solely in the junior sports in the therapeutic pool.
See you all on Tuesday.
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
ICPE Mission Invitation
Today we enjoyed sharing a session with these young evangelists in the church.
They have invited everyone to join with them again tonight at the church and again tomorrow night. All children were given a slip to bring home today with the information.
They have invited everyone to join with them again tonight at the church and again tomorrow night. All children were given a slip to bring home today with the information.
Sunday, 19 February 2017
Some WOW writing
We began today learning about using WOW words to describe thunder and lightning. We worked for a very short time with a buddy and haven't had time for everyone to share yet. I was so excited when I read this written by Zack and Ted and thought it worth sharing.
"There is lightning. It looks like a flashing crack in the sky."
Our poem this week is about a description of Tawhiri the son of Rangi and Papa who was not happy when his parents were separated. We talked about the language in the poem before we wrote.
"There is lightning. It looks like a flashing crack in the sky."
Our poem this week is about a description of Tawhiri the son of Rangi and Papa who was not happy when his parents were separated. We talked about the language in the poem before we wrote.
Week 4 Term 1
Thank you everyone who attended mass this morning, and a special thank you to Jada who read the prayer of the faithful as our class representative. It was an exciting end to see the Evangelisation Team share a liturgical dance. This group of young people will share with the school/parish at the 9am Wednesday mass, then work in class over the morning. I look forward to their input.
Reading Logs: Thank you for the comments written in these - this is a great avenue for home/school communication. After reading these I checked the browse boxes again and found that we are still "learning to put our books back in the correct box" - this explains why a couple of people took home difficult texts. I also continued to tweak the reading groupings last week so maybe some people were confused as to their group. There is a clear list on the wall now to help us out! Having hoped to have limited the number of groups it is clear that I am unable to do this for a start, which means that I will not be seeing every group every day, but you can expect a text home every night from the browse box.
Spelling: It was wonderful to have Zoe and Maisie (Dunstan High School Work Day) to help us on Friday as we completed our first spelling test and independent tooling of our list for this week. I taught both of them in Year 5/6 when Mrs Eastwood first introduced Spelling Alive to school, so they were able to ably assist. There are still quite a number of people not secure in how this is to be done so we will do our spelling again in class this week. It is important that the spelling is tooled carefully and we learn the process of how to listen to sounds and record them in order, rather than just focus on a product of 5 correctly spelled words for the Friday test.
Swimming Sports: For those children swimming in the main pool races, entries will be taken by Wednesday. If there are any parents (other than Pippa) who wish to have their children entered in these races, please email me by Tuesday. The events are 1 length freestyle, backstroke or breaststroke. A championship race is where strokes must be correct and no stopping. Non-championship, people can stop and have a break and exact technique is not so important. Any Year 3 children would be entered in "9 and under" age group. Age as at 9th March. Our last 2 swimming sessions are Tuesday and Thursday this week.
Assembly 2:10 Friday: Rooms 3 & 4 will lead this. We kindly swapped with Rooms 1, 2 & 7 as they will be away on camp.
Does anyone have any stories of Rangi and Papa at home that we can share. This week we are looking at comparing retold texts. We will also be looking at the family tree of Rangi and Papa as part of our Inquiry about Belonging. This is out Maori link, as well as writing a descriptive text from our "visualisation" of what we think one of the gods might look like. Visualisation is a reading skill which is a focus for us.
As a class we are continuing to focus on self management of both on task work, but also how we move about the classroom and get ourselves organised for activities. This is challenging for some at present but we will help each other. On a Monday morning we bring our book bag into the classroom, Glue our new poem into our poetry book and put our poetry book into the poetry box. We also make sure that we have put our chair out and have our pencil case on our desk with a sharp pencil ready to go. Tools of the trade!
Homework: Reading and enjoying texts at home. Great to see some people making a great start to 100 days of reading. keep this up.
Reading Logs: Thank you for the comments written in these - this is a great avenue for home/school communication. After reading these I checked the browse boxes again and found that we are still "learning to put our books back in the correct box" - this explains why a couple of people took home difficult texts. I also continued to tweak the reading groupings last week so maybe some people were confused as to their group. There is a clear list on the wall now to help us out! Having hoped to have limited the number of groups it is clear that I am unable to do this for a start, which means that I will not be seeing every group every day, but you can expect a text home every night from the browse box.
Spelling: It was wonderful to have Zoe and Maisie (Dunstan High School Work Day) to help us on Friday as we completed our first spelling test and independent tooling of our list for this week. I taught both of them in Year 5/6 when Mrs Eastwood first introduced Spelling Alive to school, so they were able to ably assist. There are still quite a number of people not secure in how this is to be done so we will do our spelling again in class this week. It is important that the spelling is tooled carefully and we learn the process of how to listen to sounds and record them in order, rather than just focus on a product of 5 correctly spelled words for the Friday test.
Swimming Sports: For those children swimming in the main pool races, entries will be taken by Wednesday. If there are any parents (other than Pippa) who wish to have their children entered in these races, please email me by Tuesday. The events are 1 length freestyle, backstroke or breaststroke. A championship race is where strokes must be correct and no stopping. Non-championship, people can stop and have a break and exact technique is not so important. Any Year 3 children would be entered in "9 and under" age group. Age as at 9th March. Our last 2 swimming sessions are Tuesday and Thursday this week.
Assembly 2:10 Friday: Rooms 3 & 4 will lead this. We kindly swapped with Rooms 1, 2 & 7 as they will be away on camp.
Does anyone have any stories of Rangi and Papa at home that we can share. This week we are looking at comparing retold texts. We will also be looking at the family tree of Rangi and Papa as part of our Inquiry about Belonging. This is out Maori link, as well as writing a descriptive text from our "visualisation" of what we think one of the gods might look like. Visualisation is a reading skill which is a focus for us.
As a class we are continuing to focus on self management of both on task work, but also how we move about the classroom and get ourselves organised for activities. This is challenging for some at present but we will help each other. On a Monday morning we bring our book bag into the classroom, Glue our new poem into our poetry book and put our poetry book into the poetry box. We also make sure that we have put our chair out and have our pencil case on our desk with a sharp pencil ready to go. Tools of the trade!
Homework: Reading and enjoying texts at home. Great to see some people making a great start to 100 days of reading. keep this up.
Saturday, 18 February 2017
Morning Programme
Our first Friday morning programme went very well with the children giving informative talks about their topics. They were well prepared and confident as they spoke to the class. This Friday Group 2 will have their turn. Please check your child's homework book or scroll down the blog if you're not sure when they are due for their turn. It is a good idea to have a record of their talk on an A4 page, even if they are going to speak without notes, because this can be included in the class book. The children can then use the book as a reading resource.
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Sunshine On Line
The user name and password for this reading site is glued inside the front cover of homework books. This reading can also be included in reading logs. There are some new science non fiction books here that will be interesting reading especially for some of our boys. The readers are levelled so choose to work on texts that are a couple of levels below where we are reading in class, as the children have read mainly PM books which have more predictable text patterns for younger readers.
Thank you PTA for paying for this site to assist with increasing our reading levels. Very grateful.
Thank you PTA for paying for this site to assist with increasing our reading levels. Very grateful.
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