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.

Week 8 Term 2 2022

The middle of the year is often when teachers start to reflect on how things are going and where to for the next 6 months - quite fitting that this coincides with Matariki. One of the things that has been really standing out for me is how much Room 14 kids have grown in confidence and how strong they are as a team. I am really proud of the way these kids are so willing to try new things and offer their help to others. They are a brilliant little group of people and, 6 months in, I still feel so lucky to be part of this great team.

Learning this week:

Mathematics: we are continuing with multiplication and doing some review work to make sure that we prevent old skills and knowledge from getting rusty.

Literacy: we will be looking at how reports are written and will start to write reports about some of our Matariki learning.

RE: We are continuing with the "I am..." statements. This week we also celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus. There is a mass on Thursday. 

Monday: 

Lake View Golf tournament

Library

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Sacred Heart mass

Friday: Matariki Day

There are loads of community events to get involved in - have a great day.

Week 7 T2 2022

There are lots of exciting things happening in Week 7. We have a liturgy to lead, some kids are off to interschool cross country, Aidan and James are in the Talent Show finals and there's going to be a big announcement at assembly on Friday - I wonder what it could be? 

With all the mud, puddles and wet grass even more of the kids are choosing to take their shoes off while in class. They are welcome to bring a spare/dry named pair of socks to wear inside. We've also been keeping our water bottles beside us to stay hydrated in our cosy classroom. It's really warm in our thermally heated room but the water fountain is out in the rain - it makes sense to keep bringing a water bottle, please. We also have our toasters up and running in the mornings. We are learning a lot about cutting loaves of bread, spreading toppings and doing the dishes!!

(This is where the photos are supposed to go but the tech guy has my laptop with the photos on it) 

This week:

Monday:

Talent Show Finals 9:15am - we'll be going to support our Aidan and James A

Tuesday:

Inter-school Cross Country (children involved will have had a letter)

Good luck team!

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Kapa Haka

Matariki Liturgy (led by Year3-4)

Friday:

Lachlan Popata will be Principal for the day (raffle winner)

Big announcement

Roller skating

Pasifika

Choir

Learning this week:

Maths: we are continuing exploring multiplication and how it works. Skip counting, doubles and knowing tens and ones in a 2 digit number are really helpful pieces of quick knowledge for our work this week.

Literacy: we are exploring how authors write to hook their readers. Wow words, interesting sentences and even punctuation make a difference. You could look at books at home and find interesting words, see how the author uses long and short sentences and see if you can spot a simile or a metaphor.

RE: "I am the Light". We will be talking about how Jesus talks about light and what it all means. We are also leading the Matariki liturgy this week so there'll be a bit of learning around this, too. 

Happy Birthday 

Anthony and Isabella!

Week 6 term 2 2022

 We had a great Teachers Only Day today.  Teachers from 5 Catholic schools came together to share ideas, build relationships between our schools and learn together. We'll be seeing quite a few of the ideas we picked up in our teaching and learning during the coming weeks.

We know it's not always easy, so thank you for making other arrangements for the kids today. Your support is appreciated.

The rest of the week...

Wednesday: 

Thursday: Kapa Haka

Friday: Pasifika and choir

Nice and easy, eh?

cross country

 Hopefully, you all got your app notification and know that the Cross Country has been postponed.  We're a little disappointed but, since we all shrieked just running in the rain from the hall to the classroom, it's probably a good call. 

PLAN B

Tomorrow afternoon we will walk up the road to Arawa Racecourse and run our cross country there. The weather looks much more hopeful. If you are free, you are welcome to join us but we know that many of you had to rearrange your lives for today - sorry it didn't work out.  

Reminders:

- we have mass tomorrow PLEASE wear your correct school uniform to school (no nail polish, jewelry...)

- bring your sports gear in a bag to change into at lunchtime

Golden Time

 We were given a little treat for Golden Time on Friday, but we had to work for it. Mrs T tied little lollipops to the display wires for us. We were allowed to eat them, but we could not use our hands or the furniture. 

It was pretty funny.

The kids in Room 14 are becoming responsible for recording our learning with ipads - photos, videos etc. As you can see below, they are discovering quite creative ways to share the events and their thoughts. Ooops, Ian. I think you got caught using the furniture to climb up and eat your lollipop. Hehehehehe! I love working with this class - they are hilarious.

Week 5 Term 2 2022

Tālofa lava!

This week is Samoan language week. The theme for Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week is Fa’aāuāu le Folauga i le Va’a o Tautai - Continue the Voyage with Competent Wayfinders of the Ocean. It's all about the journey of sustaining and maintaining the language and culture and recognises the importance of having the right people and tools to do this. The Ministry for Pacific People has links to all sorts of resources. HERE is a link to some everyday words and phrases that you and your aiga might like to try this week.

Cross Country

The weather for our cross country isn't looking great so a few extra prayers to Saint Joseph wouldn't go astray. We'll keep you up-to-date - as soon as we know anything, you'll know it, too. 

Young Vinnies Talent Quest

The Young Vinnies are organising a Talent Show.  Auditions for Years 3-4 will be held on Monday this week. Singing, dancing, weird skills, musical instruments... All kids are invited to show off their weird and wonderful skills and talents.

Pentecost Mass

On Friday, we will celebrate Pentecost Mass. Pentecost is the birthday of the Church. It's when the Holy Spirit came to the Apostles and they began the Church's mission to spread the good news. Please make sure your children are in correct uniform - this also means no jewellery (except Taonga) or nail polish. Thank you.

This week:

Monday:

Young Vinnies Talent Auditions

LIBRARY

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Ko Hata Maria, te Matua Wahine o te Atua icon.

Chess Regional (for selected students)

Thursday:

Cross Country (Please, Saint Joseph?)

Friday:

Pentecost Mass

Our Learning

Literacy: Narratives. What are they? How are they organised? What sort of language will we see?

Maths: Multiplication. We are learning how skip counting, repeated addition and using known facts can help us solve multiplication problems.

RE: We are learning that Jesus calls us to holiness and wholeness in the teaching of the Salt and Light.

(Mt 5:13-16). We will also be learning about/celebrating Pentecost.

Structured Literacy: Mrs D's groups are working on 'silent e' and 'r controlled syllables'. Mrs T's groups are working on 'Y can sound like the long e' at the end of multi-syllable words. Sounds fancy, eh? These spelling rules will also be linked to learning when reading and writing.