Week 4 (15-19 August)

Welcome to Week 4.

Spelling
Spelling starts this week. All children were given 5 words to practise at home over the week. These words will be tested at school on Friday so please remember to send the notebooks to school for testing and so they can get their new words for the following week. A few children could not find their notebooks in their tote trays (these were part of the stationery list at the start of the year) so if your child did not bring home any spelling words/notebook can you please send along a notebook sometime this week so we can organise spelling words for them. Many thanks.

Artist
This Wednesday we are lucky enough to have a drawing session with a visiting artist. Kohara will be using our work from this session for our calendar art (which will be available to purchase later in the year). The $4 for this session will be invoiced to your term activity fee.

Classroom Release
This Tuesday from 11-12.30pm
Room 18 will have PE with Mr Lukes
Room 19 will have Art with Mrs McHaffie

Reading
Please remember to return last weeks reading books to the grey container down by the stage in R18 on Monday morning. Remember to put your reading folder in your tote tray too so it is ready for your reading group session.

Fantails reading group
For those in the fantails reading group - this week we are basing our reading around a book called 'The April Fool's Day Mystery'. Because we will be using this book for prediction and other activities, we will not be sending it home until nearer the end of the week. For home reading please enjoy reading your library books, magazines, a newspaper, favourite stories etc.

Maths
At the moment many of our maths groups are exploring place value, finding out how many tens and ones make up 2 digit numbers up to 99. Some children are even looking at 3 digit numbers (hundreds, tens and ones). We have added a link on the right hand side of the blog under Numeracy Links to a couple of fun place value games that you might like to have a go at this week. In Dino Numbers you need to click on the amount of tens and then the amount of ones to make the total shown. In Shark Numbers you need to count up the number of tens and the number of ones shown in place value blocks and click on the bubble with the matching number. If you get it wrong the shark starts to eat your boat!

Lunchtime Clubs
Tuesday ~ sewing club
Wednesday ~ Chess club
Thursday ~ hockey club (remember your mouthguard)

Library Day Friday
Kapa Haka Friday