Pheweeeeee!  It's all flying past rather fast and we've sooo much to cover before the end of term.
We've had a great week reliving our camp experiences and producing some great work on it.
We've now got our scientist hats on and are well into designing our fair tests to investigate evaporation......

Dates for your diary
4/9                  Art with Mrs Vavasour
5/9                  School Science Fair
11/9                Art with Mrs Vavasour
12/9                ALL Report writing (reliever TBC)
17/9               ALL Evaluation Day (reliever TBC)
17-18/9           Marlborough Science Fair
19/9               Privilege Day/ Merit Assembly
22-26/9           Year 5/6 Camp

We went all out in yellow in support of the the Cancer Society's Daffodil Day.

What a fantastic time we had!  We walked, we played, we worked, we investigated, we discovered and we flew!
Watch our animoto.....it captures the highlights of 3 wonderful days.

Week 4
What an exciting week we’ve had (but it’ll be nothing as compared to next week!!)!  We’ve run and walked, written and read, multiplied and divided……

Just a few more sleeps till we set off on our big adventures
.....Lake Rotoiti for Year 4
.....and Room 3 for Year 5

Have a restful weekend ready for another BIG week!

Next Week:
Maths:             Multiplication and Division
Reading:          Visualising and using diagrams/ pictures to help us understand the text
Writing:           Reports – turning notes into full sentences
Topic:              Africa - the Savannah
PE:                  Being adventurous outdoors!

Dates for your diary
20-22/8           Year 3/4 Camp
4/9                  Art with Mrs Vavasour
11/9                 Art with Mrs Vavsour
17/9                 ALL Evaluation Day (reliever TBC)
22-26/9           Year 5/6 Camp

This week's challenge:
Year 4: Get your stuff out and pack everything you need for camp!  Kit list was sent out again this Friday just in case.

Year 5: Start thinking about what you’d like to achieve on camp ready to share with Room 3 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Week 3

Another busy week over and we’re working our little socks off!  Lots of reading, collecting information, taking notes, organising our ideas and turn it all into fascinating reports.

We discovered that we were great at the complicated bits of maths but needed a little practice at one of the simpler skills (see this week’s challenge) and we’re now experts on Savanna animals!

Hope to see you next week at the Camp meeting (Y4) and the school cross country.

 

Next Week:
Maths:             Multiplication and Division
Reading:          Visualising and using diagrams/ pictures to help us understand the text

Writing:           Reports – turning notes into full sentences

Topic:              Africa - the Savannah

PE:                  Cross Country Practice - remember to bring suitable running shoes 

Dates for your diary

12/8                 Room 3/4 Camp Meeting

13/8                 School Cross Country

20-22/8           Year 3/4 Camp

4/9                  Art with Mrs Vavasour

11/9                 Art with Mrs Vavsour

17/9                 ALL Evaluation Day (reliever TBC)

22-26/9           Year 5/6 Camp

This week's challenge:
We discovered that we weren’t very good at halving and doubling numbers this week so use the new links on the Basic Facts page of my website to practise lots and lots of times!



We have really been motoring this week.  With the basic concepts of multiplication and division mastered, we’ve fitted in lots of practie.

All our reading skills have been put into practice collecting information to use for writing reports and we’ve looked at how reports are structured to help us organise our information.

Cross country practice is going well (see below for the School Cross Country date) and we’re getting into our savanna topic too – more information is being collected for more writing!

Enjoy the spring-like weather this weekend.

Next Term:
Maths:             Multiplication and Division
Reading:          Inferring and questioning - reading between the lines
Writing:           Reports
Topic:              Africa - the Savannah
PE:                  Cross Country Practice - remember to bring suitable running shoes 

Dates for your diary

8/8                  Rapaura Commonwealth Games
12/8                 Room 3/4 Camp Meeting
13/8                 School Cross Country
20-22/8           Year 3/4 Camp
4/9                  Art with Mrs Vavasour
11/9                 Art with Mrs Vavsour
17/9                 ALL Evaluation Day (reliever TBC)
22-26/9           Year 5/6 Camp