Athletics Day-Thursday Week 1 Term 4

A note went home on Thursday regarding athletics day which is on Thursday week 1, term 4. It's really important that the children arrive to school on time (before 9am) so we can promptly get on the bus. The year 3 children leave at 9.05am. The Year 2 children will stay at school with me until 10.30 and then we will join the rest of the school at the Caledonian. Parents are welcome to join us there.

Languagenut

GSNS has just brought a membership for languagenut. This is a fun website where the children (and myself) can learn a new language.

 I will glue everyones passwords into their homework books, however they won't have their homework books over the holidays so everyone has brought home a copy of their password for languagenut in their book bags today.

The children will be given some time at school to do this and they can also learn more at home if they would like. I have added the link to languagenut down the right hand side of our blog. I have added some pictures that show what languages your child could learn.

How to use it:

• Select a language 
• On the left hand side of the screen select 'Vocal Trainer'
• Choose what you want to learn about
• Listen to all the words, try to remember them, practice listening, reading and writing for these words and then try the test
• Try a new category of words to learn\
• Have fun!

Languagenut

Friday Fun

It was great to see some children up the front with Mrs Y during our Māori session. Optional extra this week was I. Lochie did 'invention' and invented his own chocolate chip biscuit recipe. He brought us in some to try, they were very yummy! We enjoyed doing a science experiment and testing if our hypothesis was right or wrong. 

Learning About Light

Our letter of the week for the homework extra was 'L'. Harry, Carlotta's Dad, came in to teach Room 18 a little bit about light. We loved seeing the rainbows the sun created and especially liked you laser lights. Thank you Harry!

Charlotte's Goal

We learnt heaps of information about NZ birds and some te reo from Charlotte on Friday morning. We loved that Charlotte made links to birds using camouflage as a feature to help them survive, which is what we have been learning in science. Amazing job Charlotte! If you are looking for something to do in the weekend, you could go bird hunting for the South Island Kōkako (it is thought to be extinct).

Maori with Mrs Yoeman

On Friday mornings Mrs Yoeman teaches us Māori. When it is your birthday you get to wear the special cloak.

Gifu Conference

On Tuesday afternoon did a video call with our sister school in Japan. We played bingo, introduced ourselves and shared some of the things that we like.

Tissues

There has been a lot of colds going around and it would be much appreciated if you could give your child a box of tissues to bring along for the class. Thanks very much!

Board Games

We are very lucky because we have just got some new board games. A big thank you to the PTA for this. This afternoon we spent some time learning how to play these games.

 

Athletics Swap

We had our first athletics swap with the rest of the middle team on Thursday afternoon. This will continue for 2 more weeks. While this is happening we will be going to the library Tuesday instead of Thursday.

Maths - Area

We have started learning about area for maths. We were able to use some of our multiplication knowledge to help.

Library - Tuesday

We will be going to the library on Tuesday next week instead of Thursday, due to athletics in the afternoon.