Term 3, Week 7

Thanks to all for another wicked week – we’re starting to feel the creep of end of term fatigue in Room 3, so well done to all students for soldiering on with our learning and maintaining such high work standards. Over the next three weeks (particularly with swimming coming on in one week’s time!) please do make the call each night on whether homework or sleep is going to be more important for your families :) 

We had a lot of fun playing with oil, water, and alkaseltser tablets this week in Room 3 – there is nothing like a glass full of coloured bubbles to get us excited! As scientists, we are practising five key skills; asking questions, making predictions, conducting investigations or experiments, carefully observing the results, and sharing our ideas about our observations and learning with others. We are really enjoying learning about tikanga maori through myths and legends, and exploring the design details in our draft landscape paintings. We can also talk about the days of week and the weather in te reo maori, and this week we’ll be learning the colours to support our art lessons! This week we also move on to telling the time when it is half past, quarter past, and quarter to – and we are really enthusiastic about telling the time in Room 3, so please help us to practise at home :) 

Mrs Clare Corcoran will be teaching in Room 3 this Thursday as Miss Driver will be on an Enviroschools bus trip to Blenheim to check out some of the latest local action projects.

Once again, a reminder to pay swimming fees to the office, and to return swimming assessment forms so that the children can be correctly grouped when they begin lessons next week :) Also,  a reminder please to ensure all uniform items are named, and to practise the quick clothing change (including shoes and managing inside-out items!) :)