Weekly Notice

Week 5, Term 3, 2017

Hi everyone, and welcome back to Week 5.  Hopefully everyone received the letter from Mr MacMillan regarding my new position.  It has been a really hard decision for me to make, made even more difficult by the fact that your kids are just so wonderful.  I will miss each and every one of them and while it will be super sad leaving them and my dear school, it is time for me to try something new. I have been at St Mary's for nearly 18 years and now that all my own children have moved on to JPC and beyond, it's my time to set myself some new goals and take on a new adventure.  Thank you all for your amazing support this year and for all your kind words and gestures.  St Mary's is certainly a very special place and you the community make it that way.  I will definitely stay in touch with Room 13 and will hopefully be able to sneak in for a visit from time to time.

Ok, now on to Week 5........

*R.E - we will wrap up our unit on Jesus this week and begin looking at the Church.  The kids have learned some really interesting facts about Jesus and what his life was like, talk to them about it, you might even learn something you didn't know before.

*Maths - This week in Maths we will be looking at Measurement and more specifically, Time.  This unit complements our Concept Study on Cycles - regular repeated sequences.  We will look at days, weeks, months, years, minutes and hours.

*ALim - our group is working so hard and making some great progress.  Please check the homework books as I will be sending home the odd practice sheet to help reinforce some of the knowledge needed at Stage 4.   This week we will continue to look at Place value - tens and ones as well as identifying numbers to 1000 and adding tens.

*Writing - this week we are going to do some writing around our rocket launch.  We will write a recount and an explanation which will outline how you can launch a rocket at home.

*Reading - We have been working on Comprehension over the last few weeks.  The children have been searching a piece of writing for facts and using their research to help them answer comprehension questions.  I have to say, they are becoming excellent researchers!  You can see some of their research assignments on the wall in our classroom.  Keep up the great reading at home.  This week we will also continue practising and performing plays.

*Go4it continues on Thursday at 1:30.  We are having a great time with Tim and are practising some really important sports skills.  We have also begun playing soccer in the afternoons which is great fun.  Although your bully children did push me over last week and I hit the deck in spectacular style - all great fun!

*Sadly our little mate Oliver is leaving at the end of this week.  His family have decided to go to Scotland, where his mum Nadia is from and spend some time living with family there.  It is super exciting for Oli and I know he will take it all in his stride.  To celebrate our friendship with him, we will have a shared lunch on Thursday.  Please send a plate of food to share and feel free to join us at 1:15.  We will also have a special presentation for Oli on this day.

Keep up the great work with those super kids and have a fantastic week,
Annie