The term that was...

It's amazing to me that the term is practically over already. 4 busy days to go.

Reminders about this week:

1. Parent/Teacher interviews are on Monday and Wednesday afternoon. Hopefully, you have all booked times by now. Please note that school ends at 1.50pm on those days and your child is NOT permitted to walk home on their own. Children that cannot be met, will be looked after at school until 3pm. BTW. If any of you are unable to make it to the Monday/Wednesday interviews, please email me and we can set up a meeting for before or after school - next term if necessary.

2. Tuesday is Summer Sports Day. A lot of the children will be out of school all day for their respective sports. Please ensure your child has the appropriate gear, food, water etc.

As we have the sports awards assembly on Thursday afternoon, there are effectively no afternoons available for any teaching this week!

A look at last week:

Maths: last week we continued to look at calculating fractions of sets and in terms of Strand Maths, we also looked at reading and understanding coordinates. This week, we shall be recapping everything that we have covered this term with regard to decimals and fractions.

Writing: following on from our work on report writing, we looked at explanation writing. This week, we shall be having a quick look at narrative writing. In terms of narrative writing, the children have effectively been doing this each week via their homework.

Reading: we have covered inference, the use of keywords and phrases to help find an answer and also to enable us to make useful notes for the purpose of summarising a text.

Handwriting and grammar: steady progress is being made in both these areas. In terms of grammar, we have focused on a class-wide weak area: using apostrophes to show ownership. When looking at their homework, make sure they have got these correct (if you have the time :-)).

Topic: the children have been working on their own inquiries. We have already seen 2 excellent presentations. Next term, the topic will be Enterprise (no, not the US Starship ;-))

Te reo: we've been plugging away with greetings and simple phrases all term. The children wrote a mihi this week. Ask them if they can recite any of it for you!

Waterwise is over for the term as we have this Friday off. Gathering from the children's feedback, they loved it. Many thanks to all you parent helpers that made it possible.

And finally, some sad news.. The Rimmers are leaving glorious Auckland and moving down to cozy Christchurch at the end of this term. So we only have the pleasure of Finn Rimmer's company in Room 26 for 4 more days. Wishing you and your family all the best for your new adventure.

And finally, finally... a few more snaps from camp...