Week 8   Term 4

PRODUCTION CINDERELLA:

Students at our school DO NOT need tickets.

Tickets on sale from Thursday at school office.

Wed and Thurs night 7 pm shows $10 adult and school age students and preschoolers $5

Wed dress rehearsal matinee at 1pm $5 adults and students and preschoolers free

There will be no door sales.

Parents buying tickets can opt for either a seat in the grandstand or chairs on the floor. Both are the same price.

We had a great time making mini pizza's on Friday. Thank you Shanelle!
All your children received their chef pack..they looked so cute!
We will be writing about this on Monday.
Ask your child how to make them, and they will be able to show you I am sure :-)

Thank you to all who have offered to supervise the trip on Friday the 5th. 
Fingers crossed for fine weather.
The class are really looking forward to it, it will be a lot of fun!
A huge THANK YOU again Kelly for doing this for room 10 :-)


Check out our awesome Nativity Diorama in our class window. 
This week we have been learning about the meaning of Christmas and beginning to write about it too.

No library this week..all books are due back so look behind the couch!

Swimming each day 12:00.

I have selected some readers to keep in your child's book bag.
We hope to start to work on our nativity play soon, so your child will bring home words to learn for this!
Keep up the reading!

Week 7   Term 4

We had our ERO visit last week, and all the children in the class that were approached by the reviewers were able to articulate exactly what they were doing and what they were learning and why.
So well done children!

This Friday for GOLDEN TIME we are making mini pizzas. Mrs MaCashin sent home a request for $3 to cover the cost of this. It is not too late if you wish to order your apron and hat and spatula bring in $3 on Monday and you may make several orders for friends and  family if you wish. 
Shanelle will be in on Friday to make the pizzas with the class. YUMMY!!

Again a big THANKS to all our helpful parents and grandparents. Many of you have stepped forward to help with resources, reading, sausage sizzle, sorting papers, helping out at swimming time, tidy up etc..I do appreciate it, I know you are all super busy too so thank you:-)
Thanks Bruce, Maria, Kelly,  Briar, Renee, Shanelle, Ross, Rebecca and also all the parents who helped with the class trip Api, Glenys, Delicia, Malvin (and the next one coming up!!) 

Just a heads up, Chloes mum Kelly has kindly offered to host a Christmas Party at her house for Room 10. (you are brave Kelly!)

YEY!

The children will be able to have a swim there and something to eat! 
Chloes' granddad has offered to cater for us....spoilt!
Date to be confirmed, but with the production and junior picnic and end of year mass coming up, I was thinking of week 8.
I have checked with Mr MacMillian and he said it sounds great. 
So a note will go home soon, we will need parent helpers for this, to walk to Kelly's house, supervise and walk back with the class.

This week I will do some final testing of reading and maths.
 I know your children have made some great progress which is fantastic. We still need to keep up the reading and word lists till the end of term:-)
The writing also is looking great (and ERO remarked on their great work too for their time at school)
Library is Monday all books due back for stocktake.

Ross (Xavier's dad) has offered to do some art with us, which is fantastic as he is a remarkable art teacher at Western Heights High School:-) 
Needed: Can you bring in some egg cartons, shoe boxes, and if you happen to have one we need a large box (tv size) would be useful.

Have a super week,

Bernie

week 6 term 4

WEEK 6    TERM 4

It was wonderful to meet some grandparents for our grandparent day celebrations!

The morning was a fantastic one and thanks so much to those of you who traveled far and near to come. 

Also to those grandparents who were unable to come we were thinking of you all today too!

The children were well behaved in mass and the concert too.

I must say how fortunate Room 10 children are to have such splendid, caring grandparents and whanau!

 See your beautiful photos below...

This week the ERO team (Education Review) will be visiting our school. 

They are here to look at a range of  things. 

They are also here to observe some of the learning and opportunities we provide for our tamariki

as a school. 

They will visit Room 10 and see some great learning in progress!

This week we are swimming again.

Library Monday.

Also this week we are looking at the "Three Billy Goats Gruff", and we will work on making our own narratives with this story.

We will also use this fairy tale to focus on our maths strand of probability.

Please remind your children to be on time for class and to go to the toilet before school starts-thanks.

Have a great week,

Bernie

Our Kapa Haka Group perform

Our Komatua welcomes everyone. 

Room 3 sing a song from "The Sound of Music"..Fantastic!

Our leading Characters in our upcoming production sing to the crowd!

Layton and Elizabeth.

Reid's great grandparent and grandparents.

Dominic (and Leonardo) introduce their grandparents. 

Madeline and Jet take a happy photo with grandma and mum.

Isabel introduces her popa.

 Gabby introduces her grandparents with dad.

 Chloe with two grandmums and aunty.

Isabel now introduces her grandma

WEEK 5  TERM   4

GRANDPARENTS DAY CELEBRATION AND MASS THIS FRIDAY!
BE GREAT TO SEE YOUR  GRANDPARENTS OR SIGNIFICANT RELATIVES THERE IF YOU CAN MAKE IT!

DETAILS TO FOLLOW RE MASS TIME. THERE IS A MORNING TEA IN THE HALL AND SOME CHILDREN WILL SHARE THEIR TALENTS IN THE HALL AT 11:00.

PTA tickets are due back Monday, if you have managed to sell them. 
If you can't sell them just bring them back as is.

I have been very happy with the writing the class have done this week on "Jack and the Beanstalk".
They really became very involved with the process of writing and enjoyed their art creations too.
Check out our beanstalk in class!

This week we will look at the "The Three Little Pigs" and we will be doing some great constructions around this story.

We had a spectacular down pour on Thursday afternoon and the children rightly so became very distracted!!
 We raced to watch the hail storm that lasted 10 minutes or so.
Here are some photos....

Library Monday, please bring back the library books.

No swimming this week.

I have pasted some new spelling lists in some of the children's books. Please go over these, by reading them each night.

Also if you could have your child practice writing their words from the first two lists.
This will help your child greatly at writing time to be more independent.


For Golden Time we had fun in the water. Enjoy these photos!