Term 1 2011 Room 9 Class Newsletter
Dear Parents,
I am really excited to be teaching your children this year. At present there are 31 Year 6 students in the class.
Room 9 Programme for Term 1 will be:
Maths:
For numeracy we will be covering addition and subtraction,
The strands work will explore aspects of statistics and measurement.
Religious Education:
The first week we will look at the charism of Sacred Heart School and the second week will be on prayer. Later we will focus on the God and Jesus Strands. We will also celebrate the Liturgical Events of Lent and Holy Week.
Literacy:
Reading: We are working on main ideas, key words and locating information in the texts. We will use one text for the whole week. Therefore the books the children are bringing home are not the ones we have read in class. The books they bring home are for enjoyment and to help them get reading mileage.
Writing process: We will be using the personal recount and report formats.
Oral Language/ Current Events: Once a term your child will work with a group of children on our current events blog http://weeklynewshsinv.blogspot.com/ which they will present to the class on Fridays. This will be part of our on-going oral language programme.
Inquiry:
Our first Unit for the year is an integrated one that explores: Why is safety important? As part of this unit we will be looking why and how we make rules and how knowing this can helps us make great decisions about our learning and our learning environment. You can follow our discoveries and decision making on our blogsite http://room9shsinv.blogspot.com/
Physical Education / Health:
This term we will focus on Run, Jump, Throw in preparation for the Zone athletics. We will also be swimming in from the 7th -24th of February . There will be more about this at a later date. We have PE on Monday and Friday afternoons. (These are the only two days they are to wear sports uniform unless they have a note or there is a special event.) This will not happen during the two weeks we have swimming.
Fitness: this term we will be working on aerobic fitness with timed runs. The students will keep records of these. They need their sports shoes EVERYDAY.
The Arts:
We will be exploring construction techniques by making Funky Chickens .
Homework
10-20mins of reading
10 mins Basic Facts (Doubles, halves, timestables, and basic facts up to 50.)
Spelling: The tests will be on Fridays and new words given that day too. Day 4 of their spelling book is to be completed by Mondays and returned to school for marking.
Library
Our library day will be Fridays.
Student Teacher
This Year we will have Mrs Michelle Ryland a Third Year Teacher’s College Student working in Room 9 on Mondays.
Release
I will be released to do my Senior Management work on Fridays. We are lucky enough to have Mrs Cimone Page doing this release. This will provide continuity for the class. Mrs Page will carry on with the normal class programme.
Events
3th Feb School Mass 9.30am
8th Feb Parent Night
7h-24th Feb Swimming
2nd March House Colour Day
9th March Ash Wednesday
5th April The Minstral Visit
4th & 5th April Parent Interviews
Zone Athletic Sports (yet to be set)
Southland Athletic Sports ( yet to be set)
Camp
Bannockburn was unavailable this year so we are going to Stewart Island. The dates are the 26-28th of October. We are staying at a Backpackers so, I will need to confirm numbers for this and the Ferry. Therefore if you would like to be a parent helper on camp this year I need to know by the 18th of February.
We have a classroom blog this can be found at http://room9shsinv.blogspot.com/
Parent Information blog for Room9 with class newsletters etc can be found as a link for this blog or on http://parentinformationroom9.blogspot.com/
If you have any problems or wish to speak with me at anytime please don’t hesitate to contact me. My e-mail is klieshout@shsinv.school.nz . I would like to set up communication via e-mail this year with as many parents as possible so if you have an e-mail address could you please e-mail me at the above address so I can set up an e-mail grouping for the class.
All class newsletters are also posted on the class blogsite under Parent Information Room9.
Kath Lieshout (Room 9 Teacher.)
