Term 2, Week 4

Room 4 Newsletter:  Term 2, Week 4

Sunday 21st May, 2017

Thank you to Alia, Jelena and Sophie for their excellent acting and willingness to present a role-play at Sunday Mass this morning. The theme was ‘Being considerate of others’ which fitted very nicely with their Reconciliation theme of ‘Making good choices’. Well done also to Adam, Jack O, and David for their supporting roles. Thank you to Mrs Donaldson and the junior school children who presented their artwork to the Parish. I am getting wonderful feed-back from parishioners who really do enjoy seeing and hearing from the St. Gerard’s children at Sunday Mass.

 Important dates coming up:

· Monday 22nd May: Monday Whole School Prayer, 9 am in the Church. Please join us.

· Swimming: Tuesday 23rd May & Thursday 25^th May.

· Wednesday 24^th May: Parish/School Mass 9 am in the Church led by Room 1 & 2.

· Friday Assembly led by Room 5 at 2.10 pm in the Hall.

· Sunday 28^th May: Whole School Mass, 9 am in the Church.

Year 3-6 Ski Camps, 2017:

*The Year 5 & 6 Camp is from Monday 21^st – Friday 25^th August. The Year 5’s from both Rooms 4 & Room 5 will leave on Monday and return on Wednesday. The Year 6’s from Room 5 will leave Wednesday and return Friday. The teachers leading this camp are Mrs Lyon and Mrs Ward.

*The Year 3 & 4 Camp is on Thursday 31^st August, overnight and returning on Friday 1^st September. The two ski days have been locked in at the Snow Farm. Accommodation has proven a lot harder to arrange as the Snow Farm Lodge has been booked up for a long time, but we are making good progress with accommodation in Wanaka. The Year 3 & 4 Camp includes all children from Room 3, and all the Year 4’s from Room 4. The teachers leading this camp are Mrs Beilby and Mrs Ward.

We will advise you of all developments as they arise, and there will be Parent Meetings for both camps in due course to discuss costs, parental involvement, travel etc.

Maths: We have been working our way through Strand tasks for Geometry, particularly for Location & Direction. The highlight was using North, South, East & West to follow directions and locate treasure on a map, and then create instructions of our own to share with buddies.

I have ordered and received a new Wall Number Line for our classroom which is up now and ready to be used. This will be a great encouragement for the children to work on their number line strategies for bigger numbers in both subtraction and addition. It will also help them to identify ‘tenths’, and see their decimal numbers more visually. Great work on the 2, 5 and 10x tables everyone, and the many different ways these look – this is a great foundation for a lot of the problem-solving the children are moving in to, especially number stories.

Room 4 Maths Rocks!

Keep warm. 

Regards, Markelle Ward J