Term 3 Newsletter

Monday 20th July 2015

 

Dear Parents/Caregivers of Room 4 Students,

 

Welcome back to another exciting term, I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable break.

 

This letter is just to let you know a little about what will be happening in Term Three.

 Homework will continue this term, each Monday 10 spelling words and 10 basic facts will come home in their notebook to learn. They also must complete a Reading Log which will also come home on a Monday. Please sign your child’s notebook and Reading Log to show they are completing these at home.

Topic	‘The wonderful world of Science’ :Focus on hands on Science experiments and developing scientific thinking.   Week 4 Science Extravaganza and  Life Education visit week 5 looking at Body Systems.
Writing	Written Language:   Reports-Class Newspaper, Science Reports. Arguments:  Discussion focusing on Arguments and debating. Speech Competitions: writing and presenting speeches.
Maths	Multiplication and Division, Statistics: surveys, graphs and averages.
R.E	Church, God
P.E	Kiwisport, Fitness skills, Net and Wall games, Jump Rope for Heart day Week 8.

 

Please check that your child still has all stationery needed in Room 4. There were lots of issues last term relating to children not having what they needed to learn. Essential stationery is 5 pencils, an eraser, a red and blue pen, ruler, pencil sharpener, glue stick and colouring pencils.

 I hope you received your children’s Report at the end of last term please bring it along to interviews (week 3).

 All dates and times of events and activities this term will follow in the school newsletter.

 I hope this answers some of your questions. If you have any other queries please feel free to contact me at school for an appointment or e-mail at ryan@stannes.co.nz

 

Please check out our class blog at -  http://stannes104.blogspot.co.nz

 I look forward a very productive and successful term with your child.

Yours sincerely,

 Ryan McInnes.