Term 4, Week 2

What an awesome start to the term – we are loving our new and improved Room 3 Team! We’ve really enjoyed our touch rugby and throwing sessions for fitness, and we had fun giving life to our cress and mustard characters. You can find “us” in our greenhouse. We’re hoping to see the first signs of “hair” in around 10 days, and in 4-6 weeks time “we” will be ready for a haircut and salad sandwiches :)

This week we’ve got another touch rugby session scheduled, we’ll continue to work on throwing technique, and we’ll begin looking at jumping technique on Thursday with Janice Oliver. Keep practising – it looks like wet weather in a few days time, so burn up some energy now :)

Also this week we begin our construction unit for art with a creative discovery session on Tuesday afternoon - it’s an opportunity for us to showcase our existing design skills and construction techniques. A note went home on Friday requesting donations of construction materials :) 

We look forward to kapa haka this Thursday with Mrs Malthus, and continue to integrate te reo into our classroom conversations. 

Finally this week, we’ll be exploring the concepts of length, width and height. We’ll look at conservation of length (twisting metre long pieces of string to make different patterns), comparative vocabulary (longer/taller/wider/shorter/narrower), non-standard units (our hands, our feet, our paces), and standard units (centimetre blocks).

Reminders:

 - $5 to the school office for the upcoming show, The Seasons (if not already paid)

- sell (and buy!) your Home and School raffle tickets (fundraising for our awesome school!)

-  come to the always-fantastic Home and School disco this Thursday night (24 October), see the poster in our cloakroom for details!