Term 3, Week 8

HI all,

I hope you had a nice weekend.  I was in Timaru with Olly  - watching him play hockey.

Here are the goings on for the week in Room 5

Otago Skink and Gecko monitoring project
Our science focus for the next 6 or so weeks (before and after the holidays) will be to learn about and investigate the living habitat of the Otago Skink (and Geckos).  In class we will research these creatures and work towards making a scientific poster to show our learning.  Out of class we will be setting up some monitoring equipment on a small area beside the rail trail just near school.
PE uniform may be worn on Monday and Friday this week as we will be working onsite with Anna Robinson from Enviro schools to begin the project.  We'll be heading to the rail trail after lunch - around 1:45pm on Monday and before lunch on Friday if you'd like to join us.   The trips will be no longer than an hour.

Gymnastics
Sports uniform may also be worn this Thursday as the children will have Gymnastics with Sharelle from Kelly Sports.

Social Justice Week
Please keep an eye out for some activity cards which will be coming home with your children this week.
Social Justice week is an important time for us to remember those who are not as fortunate as we are.  I have made a new display in our classroom showing the work my brother Ben does in Argentina with his Food for Thought programme.  Please feel free to come in an have a look and a read and check out what he's been up to lately - including the building of a chilean bread oven!  We often talk about the work Ben and other people do which make Jesus' request that we love one another a reality. These examples of people doing good work right now show our kids that helping people is important and it makes a difference.

Maori Language Week

This week in class we'll be playing some new, fun Maori language games to increase our use of te reo in the classroom.  These will actually become a regular feature of our daily 5 learning programme moving forward.  Don't forget to ask your kiddies to share their learning with you.  Mrs Tamati will also be visiting our room soon and hopefully she'll introduce some more games.

Special Character Review Team Visit
We welcome the Special Character review team into our school from Monday to Wednesday of this week.

Wednesday Mass this week will be led by Room 3.

Wow Night
On September the 27th there will be a wow night at school.  This evening will be to showcase all the great things that are happening in our school.  We'll have a shared meal and a fun evening of showing you exactly what we've been learning about in class this term/year.

Eisteddfod Speeches
A reminder to children and parents that the eisteddfod assembly will be held in Week 10 on Friday the 29th at 1:30pm.  Now would be a very good time to spend some time writing and learning a speech of your choice to present to our class.  Speeches must be around 2 minutes duration.

Have a good week,

Mrs Lyon