Week 9 Newsletter & Homework

Thank you so much to the parents who provided transport to and from the rink for the ice skating programme. Once again we had Andrew as our coach, who provided instruction on basic techniques as well as fun games to get everyone moving on the ice.  As Keila was unable to skate at the last session, she was class photographer with the i-pad and now we are using "book creator" to review what everyone learned and enjoyed at these sessions.  Hopefully we can burn this onto a disk and share it with Andrew. Andrew has really enjoyed teaching your children, he mentions this every week, so feel proud of how your children relate to others in the community.

Poetry Eisteddfods will be heard next Monday. Well done to those people who had a copy of theirs in their homework books. This week is the time to practise reciting the poem.  Since the beginning of the year we have worked on how to use the punctuation in poetry to read poems the way the poet has written them, be sure to use this when you are learning your poem from memory.  There are 5 marks for your introduction where you need to state the title, the poet and share a little about the poet - what sort of poems they write, where they live etc, and why you chose this poem for the audience.  Remember this needs to be reasonably short - it is just an introduction not a speech, your poem is the main event. Think about speaking at a good pace, clearly and loudly.  When you know your poem well, you will feel so much more confident.  Good luck.  I have seen a great selection of poems have been chosen to entertain us.
WALT: choose and perform, using expression and a clear  voice, a poem that will entertain the Room 4 audience.

Good luck to our 3 teams competing at the Spelling Quiz on Wednesday at 4:30 in Cromwell.  Caleb, Ursin, Zachary, Hannah, Celia, Bailey, Zoe, Anna and hopefully Carinthia. There is a separate notice for parents.

Homework

1. Maths: Keep working on tables - especially addition and subtraction to 20. Word problems to solve showing more than one strategy. The thinking of the strategy needs to be shown in your book. Eg: could be a number line showing how you are using  tidy numbers and jumping in 10's or using your knowledge of groups of 10 by jumping 30 or 40 etc at once, equations showing how you have used place value  47 + 39 = ?   40 + 30 = 70, 7 + 9 = 16, 70 + 16 = 86, or rounding to solve the problem are some strategies that we have worked on.  You may have others.
2. Reading: don't forget to complete your reading log.  I know many people have been reading heaps.
3. Spelling: learn your list ready for testing on Friday.
4. Morning Programme: Group 3 this week, plus those from Group 2 who forgot last week - we got a bit out of kilter with Noah's farewell & the missed week (where we were to have been skating).
5. Poetry: eisteddfod poem and working on your poems for your anthology.