Monday 15 October 2012

Term 4

Welcome back to term 4.  Everyone seemed to have been busy over the holidays with plenty of interesting stories to share.  We welcome Molly Redican to our class and hope she enjoys making new friends.
We celebrate St Gerards Feast Day with a mass at 9:30 in the church on Wednesday, you are all welcome to join us.
Good luck to Bailey as she starts at her new school in Christchurch.  Look out for Mrs Good, Bailey - her grandchildren attend this school.  She will be looking out for you.
Weekly Touch Competition: information went out at the end of last term - 3 people have returned slips - thank you Rhian Ward for agreeing to be our ref. The team needs to be registered at the beginning of next week.
Dates for the Calendar
  • Wednesday 24th School Athletic Sports - if you can help please leave a message with Mrs Bennie or complete the help form that went home at the end of last term. Cancellation day = Thursday 25th
  • Thursday 1st November - All Saints Day Liturgy - dress up as your favourite saint
  • Tuesday 6th November - Mercy Day trip to St John's in Ranfurly
  • Wednesday 7th November - Central Otago Athletic Sports
  • Thursday 8th November - Science Roadshow - Rooms 4 & 6 at Dunstan High School 10:30 - 12:30 - a couple of parents to walk with us please. Cost $
  • LIFE Education - Thursday & Friday Ït's Great To Be Me!"
  • Thyme Festival Week - 12 - 16 November
  • Rail Trail Adventure - week 5
  • Friday 23rd November - Rooms 3 & 4 lead assembly
  • CO Catholic Touch Tournament - Wednesday 28th November- hosted by St Gerards - coaches will be needed for the day please.
  • Friday Mass 30th November - Rooms 3 & 4 lead Mass - 12:00 in the church
  • Monday 3rd December - Singing Eisteddfods.  Songs need to be suitable for our age group.  I need to see the words of the song well in advance.  It's nearly Christmas, there are some super choices on this theme.
  • Wednesday 12th December - Mass and Prizegiving 6pm
  • Thursday 13th - PTA whole school BBQ picnic at the pool
  • Friday 14th - Christmas Carols & final assembly

Morning Programme:
Planner for the term is in the homework book. With such a busy term only 1 turn each - make it an exceptional presentation. 
  • Group 1: Friday 19th October
  • Group 2: 2nd November
  • Group 3: 16th November
  • Group 4: 23rd November
Reading
Read every night, complete your reading log. The writing assessment this term is a piece of narrative writing, great ideas and language choices to describe settings, characters and events can be found when you read other authors narratives.  Take note of the structure of these texts, how have the authors created a clear setting? How have characters been described? What problems happen in the text?  How are these solved?  Keep these in the back of your mind if there is something that you think you could use in a piece of writing.
Maths/Tables
Three tests left for this year, the first of these is on Friday - use the practice sheet. Many people's tests are accurate as far as they get, but not all 100 questions are finished - work on speed. Keep working on knowing all your tables. Choose one or two tables a night to work on, then learn the whole 'family' eg: 9 x 8 = 72, 8 x 9 = 72 and the division facts for each.  Some people have registered again for mathsbuddy, topics for this term are multiplication and division, fractions, time.  There are good activities to practise these topics.
Spelling
Spelling will start again in week 2. This week check over any of your Spellwrite list words that you are still shaky on, especially those in the Commonly Misspelt List.

Typing
To become more successful with presenting work on the computer, spend some time on the bbc typing site.