Term 4, Week 1

Welcome back to Term 4, our final term together in Room 3 for 2012! What a term it’s going to be – we’ll have a new topic focus (technology for sustainability – trash and treasure), we’ll be preparing for our end of term show, we’ll be working with fabric and fibre to create classroom and Christmas crafts, and we’ll be finishing off our Calendar Art with Mrs Jessop. Of course we’ll also continue with kapa haka and te reo, and we’ll be enjoying a range of fitness activities – cricket, athletics and team games. We even have an author visit this Friday!

In maths we’ll be working at counting on or back from a number in our heads to solve problems without numberlines or materials to count on (imaging – using our imagination to “see” what we’re used to seeing when we count). In both reading and writing we’ll be focussing on how authors (including ourselves!) use the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs – to start with!) to create interesting sentences that make sense and contain all of the information that is important for a reader to know. 

 Please remember to bring your book bag to school every day this term, and to work on your homework (reading, spelling and maths) every night from Monday to Thursday (no homework on Fridays or at the weekends :)). 

Please also remember that children must wear a school hat at all times when playing in the sun during Term 4 – children without a hat will spend play times in the shaded play areas only (this excludes the field and playgrounds).