Saturday 7 March 2015

Term 1, Week 7

Sunday 8th March 2015

Sea Week Exhibition:
Wer’e off to the Sea Week Exhibition again, this time with the whole class. We have been invited to a special DVD screening tomorrow afternoon between 1.30 and 2.30 pm at Community House. If anyone is available to walk with us, leaving from school at 1.20, please give me a call.
Haiku Competition: As part of Sea Week the children all wrote a Haiku poem, which is a 3-line poem on a theme. It has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the last line. Most of the children then had to quickly provide an illustration of their poem for me to photograph, to send in with their haiku. By the end of Friday I had just managed to get them all away for those who wanted to enter. Wouldn’t it be exciting to win something? Entries will be posted on the Sea Week Facebook page, so you could even check them out.

World Day of Prayer Service:
I had about five comments from parishioners about how wonderful it was to have the children from Room 4 and the choir at the World Day of Prayer service on Friday morning. They all said how beautifully the children sang and what a lift it brought to the service. Well done everyone!

Upcoming dates:
*Monday 9th March – Sea Week DVD at Community House:  1.30-2.30 pm
*Thursday 12th – Friday 13th  March – Junior School Camp (Rooms 1-3)
*Monday 16th March – St. Gerard’s Triathlon – Afternoon only
*Friday 20th March – Teacher Only Day
*Otago Anniversary Day – Monday 23rd March – School closed
*Eisteddfod Assembly – Thursday 2nd April (last day of term)

Spelling Homework
There will be a change to Spelling homework for the rest of the term. Five words will be given each week. The children will be required to highlight the part of the word that we are focusing on (for example, this week it is suffixes), and also to put each word into a sentence to explain it’s meaning.

Spelling lists will be worked on in class rather than at home, to ensure that Spelling Alive tools including sound lines and conducting lines are being completed correctly. If you particularly want spelling lists to continue coming home over the next few weeks, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thank you for your support with this.
Have a great week. 
Regards, Markelle Ward      J

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