Term 4 Week 8

Natalia, Kate, Bree, Roisin, Bridget and Zofia

WOW! The children were amazing performers in 'The First Noel' junior production. I am very proud of them all. A special mention goes to Kate, who stepped into the role of Mary, and Samantha who stepped into Kate's role when the original Mary was sick.

Kings Kempton and Preston

After Tuesday's Touch Rugby games Neave and Samuel were named 'Player of the day' for their respective teams. Ka pai, Neave and Samuel, keep up the great playing.

Term 4 Week 4 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Roisin.

Ka pai, Roisin, it's great to have you in Room 5.

The Year 3s began tennis lessons today. They all enjoyed their session. They have two more sessions. While the Year 3s were playing tennis the Year 2s made ooblek. We discovered that ooblek can behave like a liquid as well as like a solid, depending on how hard you push your hand into it. Ooblek is made from cornflour and water.  

Sirayah

Bree and Natalia mixing the ooblek

Bree and Zofia  

Roisn

Finn

Term 3 Week 10

At today's assembly Natalia received a certificate.

Ka pai, Natalia, we are proud of you.

Congratulations, too, to Gabrielle, who was presented with her Gold Mathletics certificate at the assembly.

During the holidays Zofia will have her 7th birthday (2 October). Today we sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished her all the best as a 7 year old. 

Preston will also have his birthday (10 October) in the holidays. We sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished him all the best as an 8 year old.

Thank you for your support this term. It has been busy and has flown by. Have a safe, relaxing and happy holiday. See you all next term.

Colouring Competition Success

Congratulations to Zofia who won third prize in the recent Mike Perro colouring competition. She received a Smiggles voucher.

Term 3 Week 7

At today's assembly Ruby received a certificate.

Ka pai, Ruby, we are proud of you.

 This morning at Discovery Time we made kites. We then enjoyed flying them outside. Luckily the wind was favourable and our kites flew quite well. We did have a few casualties and tangles, which we will try to sort out next week.

Zosia

Gabrielle

Bridget and Roisin

For the past three weeks we have been learning about Fractions. We can state what a fraction is and can work out fractions of shapes. Working out fractions of sets are still a bit tricky, but we will keep working on them. We have made posters to show our learning. Come into the classroom to check them out

Fractions by Samuel and Declan

Next Tuesday we have our trip to the Air Force Museum. We will be leaving school at 9am and returning at lunchtime. Children will need their morning tea in a separate container or snap lock bag (must be named) to their lunchbox, and a named drink bottle. Please ensure your child wears their school polar fleece. (Some children are not wearing or even bringing their polar fleece to school. It can get very cold in the playground and children need their fleece to help keep warm.)

Mathletics Silver and Room 5 Stars

Congratulations to Zofia who has gained her first Silver Mathletics Certificate. Keep up the great work.






Thank you to those who were able to come along and watch us perform our plays this afternoon. What amazing stars we have in Room 5! The children have worked really hard and really stepped up today. I am so proud of them. Look out Hollywood!

Ruby, Harriet, Jessica, Lulu, Declan & Nicholas

Trinity, Roisin, Bridget, Neave & Gabrielle

Declan, Finn C, Finn H, Kempton, Preston & Samantha

Bree, Ariana, Kate, Marissa, Zofia & Samantha

This morning we finally had our last hockey session. We have remembered lots of skills so we were able to enjoy some relay races using the skills before playing a game. Next term (on Thursday 23 July) we will have a celebration afternoon when we will play games against the other junior classes.

Ruby

Preston

Trinity

Sirayah

Term 2 Week 10 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Zofia.

Ka pai, Zofia, it's great to have you in Room 5.

Declan (rugby) was named 'Runner of the Day' and Kate (hockey) was named 'Player of the Day' after their Saturday games. Ka pai Declan and Kate and all Room 5 people who participated in sport over the weekend.

This week:

This morning we chose reading groups so that we can work on plays. We then chose our plays and organized the parts we'd like. We will work on these for the next two weeks, preparing for a presentation next week. 

Homework is Basic Facts and learning all the Essential Lists 1-5, and 6 & 7, words ready for a big test in Week 2 of Term 3.

14 children will be receiving reports on Friday and then will have their Student Led Conference on Monday. This will be a great time to see your child's work and for them to tell you about their learning.

Keep smiling and keep warm!

Term 2 Week 7

 Patrick was presented with a certificate at today's school assembly.

Ka pai, Patrick, we are proud of you.

We have been learning about symmetry. This has provided us with some challenges, but also lots of discussion. We have been trying to work out lines of symmetry for capital letters. We discovered that 10 letters have no lines of symmetry, 4 have two lines and 12 have one line of symmetry. Check out these photos of us working out the lines of symmetry:

Lulu and Jessica

Trinity and Zofia

Jacky and Preston

Samuel and Finn C

A reminder about the Character Day on Tuesday 9 June. Keep thinking about what your character looks like, their emotions, what they like and what they do. I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Enjoy the weekend - keep warm.

Happy Birthday

Today was Samuel's 7th birthday and now that he is really old he needs his walking stick!
We sang Happy Birthday and wished Samuel all the best as a 7 year old.

In maths we are learning about symmetry. We have been exploring the different shapes we can make when we fold a piece of paper in half and cut along the folded edge. We know that both halves are the same. Come in and check out the wall display. 

Here's some of us cutting our shapes:

Zofia and Natalia

Bree and Marissa

Kempton and Jacky

Preston and Finn H

Term 2 Week 5

At today's assembly Bridget received a certificate.

Ka pai, Bridget, we are proud of you.

Homework awards went to: Kate and Marissa, Neave, Samantha, Declan and Bridget. Ka pai for writing great sentences for your spelling words, some of them made me smile.

 

Last week Harriet was awarded the 'Player of the Day' cup for her netball team. Congratulations, Harriet.

Lots of exciting things happened today: At Discovery Time we can choose what we do. One of the most popular choice is the construction table. Today Zofia and Kempton spent their time making things to wear.

This afternoon we had our first hockey session! We all really enjoyed this new experience.

 

Tonight the school disco was held at the school hall. We all had a lot of fun. A special thank you to the Parent Council for organizing a wonderful evening.