Room 5 News-week 10

2/4/2012

Dear Parents,

Hi everyone,

Easter is just about upon us and with it the end of term 1.  I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you for your on-going support. The children are really beginning to jell together and the learning that has taken place this term has been tremendous.  A huge thank you to the marvellous parent helpers who come in each week to help in the classroom. Whether it be gluing in newsletters, hearing reading groups, helping with the number knowledge testing, art sessions and discovery, your support and energy make such a difference to the learning and confidence of the children. 

Well done to all the children who presented their family trees to us last week.  We heard many fascinating stories about life long ago and it was interesting meeting the members of your family.  A slide show of the children presenting their family tree has been posted onto our class blog.  We look forward to the rest of the children presenting their family trees to us this week.

Thank you for your quick response in returning the permission slips for our trip next term.  In the next few days I will contact parents who have kindly offered to come with us. 

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 are slides of the oral presentations and our Wednesday word problem solving sessions!  You will notice that from the blog you can now link into the class wiki.  With the help of our big buddies the children have again updated their own page.  On the maths page there is a very good site called “doubles” where there are a variety of games to help learn and reinforce this concept.

Please return the chocolate fundraising boxes to the office if you haven’t already done so.

There will be no phonics sessions this week.  Our Maths focus will be on length and area.  The children will experience different measurement activities by rotating through to a different room/teacher for their daily learning.

 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, mathletics, numeracy knowledge ladder and handwriting.

 I wish you all a very happy, safe and relaxing holiday.

Sue