Room 5 News-week 9

26/3/2012

Dear Parents,

Hi everyone,          
Another busy week of learning has flown by and I want to thank you for the great work that I know is being done at home. Many of the children are completing their mathletics tasks and we have been seeing a lot of movement on the numeracy knowledge ladders.  I am happy for the children to show their spelling and numeracy practise in their homework books.  It gives me a chance to praise them for their efforts.  We are looking forward to the family tree presentations.  Please refer to the attachment on last week’s newsletter if you are unsure of the expectations or pop in and speak to me.

 I am quite excited about the classroom blog.  Last week I made several slide shows of various events and learning, that took place in and around our classroom.  If you view the site with your children they will be able to share with you their learning.  Posted on the site recently is the Kahurangi NZ Maori Dance theatre, ideas of what 150 years ago would have been like, using the question matrix, softball skills with Mr Hastings, working with our big buddies and our self-portraits. 

Please note that the date for our trip to visit the CHB Museum in Waipawa and the Oruawharo Homestead, has had to be changed to Wednesday 2^nd May.  More information will follow in a separate notice.

Last Friday we had our second meeting with our Room 12 big buddies.  What a fun, educational time the children had.  Using the computers the Room 12 children helped us edit poems we had written about ourselves.  Some children down-loaded a photo of themselves and wrote a caption about their learning.  We look forward to our next meeting with our buddies.

Please return the chocolate fundraising boxes if you haven’t already done so.  It is fine to return boxes even if you haven’t been able to sell them.

Don’t forget to visit our wiki page http://rimaroom.wikispaces.com/ and class blog http://hnpsjarvis.blogspot.co.nz/. 

Homework Tasks-reading,  essential spelling words, phonic sheet focus,  mathletics,  numeracy knowledge ladder and handwriting.

 Have a great week.  Sue