FYI Parents of Central Triathlon competitors.

"Hi everyone. It is essential that all those students who put there name down for the Central Otago Triathlon this Thursday 23rd March bring their forms back to Mr Yeoman or Mrs Beilby on Tuesday March 21st.

Newsletter Thursday this week

Hi all,
Chrissy is away at a first aid course on Wednesday so the school newsletter will be sent out on Thursday this week instead of Wednesday.

Term 1, Week 7

Hey folks,

Does anyone else find it weird that we are on the downhill slide to the Easter Holidays?  We've still got a good 5 weeks of learning to happen before then though, and during this time the children will be focussing on their next learning steps and preparing for their goal setting interviews in a few weeks.

Parish Mass this Wednesday will be led by us, please feel free to come along at 9am and join us.

St Patricks Day - it would be a shame not to eat something green on Friday so if you could send your child along with a green item to share for a light lunch that'd be great.  I imagine we'll be listening to Irish diddle-e-dee songs during the day and will definitely be learning about St Patrick.  It'd be great if you could encourage your child to research a little information before Friday.  Any relevant info can be written into homework books or saved as a link in a google doc.

Next Monday is Anniversary Day and school will be closed.

Please encourage your child to read every day, learn their spelling words and complete their maths homework/studyladder activities.  Regular work on this really makes a big difference over the year.  

Have a great week parents,   I am loving my job this term - Room 5 is a great place to be,  I am so lucky to have 26 great kids in my class - so pat yourselves on the back!

Mrs Lyon.

Spelling word fun in Room 5

Hi there parents,

Check out one of our fun options for nailing the weekly spelling words.

Let me know if you have any innovative ways to learn the weekly words.

Mrs Lyon

Library Books

Hi all,

FYI:  If you're ever wondering what to do with lovely books you don't need at home anymore, we have a library here in Room 5.  Please feel free to donate them to us.

Term 1, Week 6

Hi All,

Here's whats happening this week.

Monday 6th  - pm - Senior Syndicate Discovery time.
Tuesday 7th - pm School Triathlon - see details below.
Friday 10th - Assembly.

During this week I'll be doing PAT testing also.  The tests cover Maths, Reading Comprehension, Reading Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension.  These are standardised tests and provide useful information for planning and individualised specific teaching.

School Triathlon:  Timetable for Tuesday 7^th March

Please note that the Year 5’s in Room 4 will follow the same programme as the Year 5’s in Mrs Lyon’s class.

11.15 am:      Eat extra for morning tea!

12.10 pm:      Year 5-8 ride to the pool with Mrs Lyon & Mrs Eastwood.

12.10 pm:      Year 1-4 catch bus to the pool (Parents are to have dropped bikes off at the Alexandra Aquatic Centre).

12.30 pm:     Gather on the grass in house groups.

12.40 pm:     First race. Senior competitive Year 5-8.

1.00 pm:       Year 1 & 2 race.

1.30 pm:       Year 3 & 4 race.

2.00 pm:       Senior non-competitive Year 5-8.

2.30 pm:       Everyone gathers on grass in house groups.

2.45 pm:       Home time – check in with teacher.

(* Eat lunch when not racing).

Have a great week all,

Mrs Lyon

Term 1, Week 5

Swimming Sports:  Please ensure your child is dressed in appropriate house colours and that they have plenty to eat and drink tomorrow.  Two towels is usually a good idea for the sports day and obviously checking the goggles are packed is the go on swimming sports day.
I hope to see many of you at the pool cheering on your fantastic kids, the swimming sports are always great fun and a great way for the whole class to support each other in their swimming successes.

Swimming sports helpters:  Please report to Deb O'Neill and Chris Beilby by 8:50am if you have volunteered your services at the swimming sports.  

School Kit - Get NZ writing:  As part of a national push to get NZ school students writing, School Kit have sent our class a poem layout and metaphor postcards which we will complete in class by this Friday so that they can be sent to another classroom in NZ.  Look out for next week's blog where I'll post our poem and also include details of the class we will swap with.  Their writing should arrive to our classroom sometime next month!

Homework this week is the usual spelling, reading and maths sheets.  I have also sent an email to your child with a link to the digital learning objects on the nz maths website.  These tools are easy to use and are helpful to cement the learning we do in class.

See some of you tomorrow - have a good week.

Mrs Lyon.