week 9 term 2 2022

 

On Thursday we are celebrating our Matariki Cultural Dinner as a school. You are all welcome to join in this busy and fun filled evening. Bring a plate of food to share - many families choose to share a dish from their own culture but this is optional.

On Friday morning (since you will all be running a little late after an exciting dinner at school) Room 12 and Room 14 are putting out the toasters and turning on the jug for breakfast. You are welcome to come and have toast and a cuppa with us and have a look at some of the learning that we have done this term - and/or just have a friendly chat. (The kids are writing invitations this week so this is your heads up). The classroom doors will be open 8:30 - 10:45am. We will also be having a shared morning tea to celebrate - we are half way through the year and have really grown. If you are able, can you please, bring a small plate of mornig tea food to share with our Year 4 Crew. 

This week:

Mon: Library

Tues:

Wed:

Thurs: Matariki Dinner

          Kapa Haka

Frid: Celebration morning (Room 12-14)

Learning this week:

Literacy: Finish writing our Matariki reports. There will be loads of articles etc in the news over the next few days. You could do a little extra reading to gather some missing information for your report.

Maths: We're going to focus on basic facts. We need to be able to use this knowledge in different ways in stage 5 and 6 so playing games with numbers is the best way to practice these facts. We'll learn some new games that we can play at home over the holiday break.

RE: We'll finish a little left over work on the 'I am' statements then move into Matariki - we'll look at the messages in the Matariki celebration and stories and think about how we can live good lives based on these messages. There are some beautiful prayers and readings that have similar messages.

        

Other messages

Reading Logs will be coming home for the school holidays. I suggest leaving them on a bedside table or in the chromebook case so they don't get lost. Any paper will do but sometimes the kids panic when they can't find the one we gave them. Remember that reading is broad - recipes, instructions, books, newspaper articles, stories read to the kids and subtitles on a movie all count as reading. We'll get a few good books in our library visit next week to kick start the reading. 

A few of our School Enviro Leaders are trying to revive the schools worm farm = less mess in the lunchboxes and more compost for the schools gardens. On a side note: It's great to see so many lunchboxes that are already rubbish free and filled with good healthy brain food. Thank you.