WEEK 6 TERM 3!

The term is whizzing by...
Please keep Mrs O'Leary and her family in your prayers as her mother passed away this week.


Events this week:

SWEET TREATS WEDNESDAY.......YUMMY!
Room 1 have been busy designing and making sweets. These will be for sale on Wednesday. 
( 50c to $1:50)
Don't miss out!

MASS is Friday.
This is to celebrate the feast day of Mary's Birthday. 
Please remind your children of mass expectations and behaviour. Children are expected to be respectful and quiet in church.
Thank You

OUR TRIP TUESDAY!!!!!
We are visiting the museum on Tuesday. The museum bus will pick us up and drop us off.
We are looking at early Maori instruments. There is a small fee of $1:00 to cover the cost of making an item at the museum. Please bring the $1:00 on Monday.

On Thursday I am on an ICT course with Mr Volschenk and Mrs Nieuboar.
The class reliever will be well informed and directed with class tasks to complete.

Friday golden time is Pizza Making.
Yey.

Homework is spelling list in the front of books. 
I will use the children's topic books to send homework home in as most of their home learning books are now falling to bits! 
So parents won't have to buy another book for this.

Have a great week. I hope the great weather holds.

God Bless,
Mrs Hall

DUE TO THE APRONS NOT BEING READY.. WE WILL HAVE OUR PIZZA MAKING NEXT FRIDAY!!!!
The class was asked to bring a little something for lunch tomorrow in case.

Bernie

WEEK 5    Term 3

Hi everyone..hope you all are enjoying this brilliant sunshine!

Great writing by the children this week. Some eager writers got to take their work to Mr Macmillian and Mrs Pinfold. 
Great work :-)

HOMEWORK:
Readers each night
Spelling-this week look at essential word lists at front of homework book. Read then Spell
A new poem 
A numeracy sheet 

Soup is on sale Thursday-pre orders by Tuesday!

Golden Time-Pizza making. The children will recieve an apron and spatula to keep!

The children enjoyed toast making and wax art for language experience. Lots to write about!

Thanks to so many of you attending our Junior Maths evening..a great turnout!

Check out this site for learning basic words:
http://www.fun4thebrain.com/English/popcornWords.html



Enjoy your week,

God Bless
Bernie Hall



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Update....check for todays notice on Golden Time next week. We are making pizza's and Mrs McCashin will supply aprons and spatula for all the children. Thus to cover costs we need $3:00 per student..great value1
 The pizzas will be made prior to lunch time so perhaps your child won't need a sausage that day!

WEEK 4     TERM 3

Please keep Mrs Louise Deakin and her two teenage daughters in your prayers, as her husband passed away on Friday. 
Mrs Deakin co-teaches with Mary Kusabs in Room 11 and is a wonderful Teacher, and Mary and Louise make a fantastic combination.

We are thinking of you Louise   X

Thank you for attending the interviews. I have now seen all the parents!


REMINDER that this Wednesday at 5:15 in room 16 is the parent evening on Numeracy. It is great to see a lot of room 10 parents attending...if you are attending please let me know by Monday as we need to make up packs for the night.

Great trip last week to the farm. The children had a blast!

In week 6 I have arranged for a trip to the Rotorua museum. This promises to be exciting also!!

Homework was dispatched on Friday, with Mondays reader. I believe this gives parent and child a chance to preview the weeks work!

KEEP UP THE SPELLING AND LEARNING OF THE WORD LISTS.

THIS REALLY HELPS WITH THE WRITING AND READING PROGRAMME.


Rooms 16 and 17 are selling Nachos this week on Thursday. There will be an opportunity to pre order as per the sausage sizzle. 
Yey... I won't have to make 5 lunches that day!!

Have a great week, keep safe,

Mrs Bernie Hall

OUR TRIP TO MEREDITH'S FARM!            August 2013

Thanks to all those who helped out today..much appreciated. We have lots to write about!
Thank you Kim and Reece  :-)  
The children absolutely enjoyed it and gained a lot of knowledge.

REMINDER!!!JUNIOR MATHS EVENING NEXT WEDNESDAY AT 5:15 ROOM 16/17
This will be a 'tour' of how children progress through the stages of number, and more.

WEEK 3 TERM 3

Thank you all for attending your child's interview last week. It is important to touch base with what is happening at home and school and so work out our next learning steps for your child. 

A fantastic response from the ROOM 10 parents!!!!!!!!

On Tuesday we have our trip to the Meredith's farm. 
We will be traveling by private car and we have enough drivers, so thank you.
If the weather is really bad, our postponement date is Friday the 16th.
I am sure the class will learn a lot about where our milk comes from, and the process involved of getting it from the farm to our homes.

A big thank you to Kim and your husband for providing us with this opportunity to visit your farm.
The children are looking forward to it (and the cute little calves!!).
Roms 9 and 11 will be joining us.

Homework for week 3 and 4 was given out on Friday. This gives parents and children an opportunity to see the homework requirements for the upcoming weeks and feedback so far has been positive with this initiative. Sometimes the week is busy and this just provides another opportunity for your child to go over their new book and words. :-)

GOLDEN TIME Friday is choosing activities in the class.

Thank you also for those who attended our Mass on Friday. 
Didn't the Juniors do well. Some of our prayer readers had to step in at the last minute due to nominated readers being sick that day!
So well done Juniors. And also thanks to Natalie for sitting with our class!
We also had a great afternoon doing a variety of Mary Mackillop activities to continue our celebrations of the day. The class will do some follow up in RE of Mary Mackillop this week.

Phew...looking forward to an exciting week...see you Monday.
Fingers crossed for fine weather Tuesday.

God Bless
Bernie Hall

Here are some photos of some great writing and our discussion on Enterprise!

WEEK 2   TERM 3

Hi there Tara, sounds like you are having a fabulous time. Tara has been doing some Irish dancing and songs. She is collecting eggs from her nana's hen house!

Isla is now living on a farm too! We look forward to hearing all about it, Isla.

REMINDERS class interviews are this week. To book your interview you need to go online. It was in last Wednesdays newsletter.
Days are Tuesday and Thursdays-3-6pm.

We have our Mary Mackillop Mass this Friday. This mass is being led by the juniors. Please remind your child of church manners and expectations. I am happy for a couple of parents to sit with my class as I will be running this mass. THANKS

Also a huge thank you to those who are able to help out in the mornings with our literacy programme. I am very grateful.
There is a list by the class door if you would like to add your name.

Homework is:
Readers and the spelling and maths for week 2 was sent home last week.
Keep up the great work room 10..Ka pai


This Friday is Mary Mackillop day and there are activities in the afternoon to celebrate. We start the day with a school mass.

We have an upcoming class trip soon...so watch this space for details . We will require parent help as drivers for this trip...details coming!

Have a good week

God bless
 Mrs Hall