Last week the children had the opportunity to put the golf skills to the test. They learnt how to do the swing action, then tested it out of large rubber balls. Next they tried it on tennis balls and finally the real thing - golf balls!  Some children are naturally gifted at this sport and I encourage you to get them down to the golf course one weekend soon to show you what they can do!

Book Reviews

 We started our book reviews at the end of Term 3 and finished them in our first week back. They did some really amazinglooking posters to promote reading to other people in ourclass. For some this was the first time they had done a bookreview so it was all a bit of a learning curve!

Our next goal is to do some for the school library to promote

some of the books in there.

BUSY START TO TERM 4

The students have been doing some fantastic work and it is great to have it up on the walls on display. We have some very talented artists in Room 9. I am really impressed with what they have been producing!  We worked on vivid and dye pictures with the intention of conveying mood and emotion through colour blends. Their silhouettes look very professional.

Dear Parents/Caregivers

Where has the year gone?! It is hard to believe we are into the fourth term already and that Christmas is just around the corner.

IMPORTANT DATES THIS TERM:

23 October     Tsunami Mufti Day & Cake Stall Fundraiser

                      Bring a gold coin and extra $ to buy treats!

26 October  Labour Day Holiday

27 October  Teacher Only Day - No school

28 October     Golf Skills for senior classes (Also on 30th)

  3 November  Puppet Show 9:30am

  6 November  Gym Champs Standards

10 November   Year 5-6 Puberty Talk 

     (parents welcome to attend this, too)

12 November* Nelson Intermediate Powhiri for students 

13 November   Gym Champs Levels

25 November   Nelsom Int Extension Assessment (Yr6)

  1 December   Interschool Athletics

  9 December   Christmas sing-a-long/Kapa Haka

11 December   Teapot Valley School Trip

14 December   Year 6 Disco (7:00-8:30pm.Supper til 9pm)

15 December * Year 6 Farewell Assembly plus all

                       Room 9 & 10 Hydroslide visit 1:00pm

16 December   Last day of school (12:00pm finish)

*Please keep these dates in mind as we will need transport and supervision for some of these activities.

Topic  

Topic this term is initially focussed on Health. Students will need to research and do a presentation on  health organisation of their choice and present this back to the class in Week 4.

They will also be doing a Technology unit on boxes in the last half of the term.

Extra Curricular

Your child may be involved in one or more of the following activities that are happening in the school over the term:

Ranzulli

Thinkers (Science extension)

Lexia (Spelling Programme)

Music (with Margaret)

Kapa Haka

Animal Husbandry 

Students have already been selected and notified about  these programmes.

Sports

This term Friday sport will be focussing on summer games. They will remain with Room 9 children but will be on a rotation so they are exposed to a range of small ball sports as a class.  

Homework and Deadlines

Christmas is fast approaching. With summer sports and social and festive commitments on the increase this term the children will have lighter homework. Weekly spelling lists which will be recorded on a Monday and tested on a Friday. These will be practised in class daily. They should be reading 15 mins each night, four nights a week. Your child should  also be regularly practising all basic number facts.

Maths

As in Term 3 the senior syndicate will continue streaming for maths with the children going to another teacher from 11:00 - 11:50am.   This is done daily for the whole term.  If you have any concerns about maths, please see me and I will refer you on to the appropriate teacher.

SOME AMAZING POETRY FROM YEAR 5 KIDS

Poem About Sisters

Sisters are rather stupid creatures

Which come with many annoying features

When you want quiet they read aloud

They also scratch and hiss really loud

Painful scratches deliver the evil of sisters

What us poor older brothers have to endure!

To this day there is still no known cure..

 

They have floppy hair that they play with all day

In a most irritating over-brushing way

They don’t follow rules in games

They beat you up then let the boy get the blame

Almost always whining about things that don’t matter

Or yabbering on with gibberish chatter

They steal all the best treats from the fridge

They tell on you – they’re always snitches

They are real bossy britches.

Davey     

 

My Sister

 

My sister is hot and cold, it seems

She can be kind but she can be mean

She likes to have things her way

Sometimes I like to try my way, so I say.

Then she doesn’t listen

She won’t let me get a word in

She won’t talk to me

It’s like I’m a rock or a tree

I get so annoyed and wound up

And I want to blurt it all out

 

****

When my sister gets home after school

Her moods changed from cold to “It’s all cool.”

She asks what I had for afternoon

(Her lazy way of saying afternoon tea)

I say sullenly “I had cookies.”

She asks if I wan to play ‘One Bounce”

Our game we made up and I say “..maybe once.”

It’s her way of making up

So I let my annoyance go and give up

She is my sister; hot and cold

But I love her the way she is.

 

Emma

Billy-Kart Club Prototype

Billy-Kart Club on PhotoPeach

SPEECHES - WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY

Room 9's class speeches were excellent. Judging them was very hard. I know some students were disappointed not to be finalists but I could only select 3 Year 5's and 2 Year 6's to represent Room 9 against Room 8 & 10. It was a tough decision, and I said to the kids that their marks were all very close. After much deliberation the finalists are:

Year 6

Tom 

Emma

Year 5

Davey

Asha

Arlo