Term 1 2013 Room 9 Class Newsletter

 

Dear Parents,

I am really excited to be teaching your children this year. At present there are 28 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 Strand. 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 use one text for the whole week. Therefore the books the children are bringing home are not the one 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 to communicate our ideas about our Inquiry Unit.

Inquiry:

This year the idea underpinning all our Inquiry units is “Change”. Our first Unit for the year is an integrated one that explores: What life cycles are and why they are important? As part of this unit we will be looking at animal and plant lifecycles, adaptations, and conservation. 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 on the following days 11^th, 12^th, 13^th, 14^th, 18^th, 19^th, 20^th, 25^th, 26^th and 27^th of February . There will be more about this at a later date. We have PE on Tuesday 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.) They are to wear sports uniform during the three 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 working on sketching techniques.

Homework

Homework consists of:

10-20 minutes of reading.

The students will keep their own reading log and this will be checked on Fridays. Please sign it on Thursday nights. (It is their responsibility to fill this out and then to make sure it is signed by both you and then by Mrs Page on Fridays.)

10 mins Basic Facts

(Doubles, halves, timetables, and basic facts up to 50.)

Spelling:

The tests will be on Fridays and new words given that day too.

Jottings

The students will bring a jottings book home occasionally to make some notes for the next day. It must come back to school the next day.

Religious Education

The students will bring their RE book home occasionally to either complete or share some work. It must come back to school the next day.

It is my expectation that ALL students will complete the above homework every night as it helps them develop the work ethic necessary for Secondary School. They must also have their home folder with these books in it at school EVERY day. This homework is their responsibility.

Library

Our library day will be.

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 class programme as designated by me on Fridays.

Events

First day back– 29/1/12

First School Mass (9.30 am) – 1/2/13

Science Week – 4-8^th /2/13

Waitangi day- 6^th /2/13

Swimming – 11^th Feb – 27^th Feb (9 sessions)

Meet the teacher – 4/2/13

Ash Wednesday – 13/2/13

Zone Cross Country – 6^th March or if postponed 15^th March

Camp

We go to Stewart Island this year. The dates are the 30^th October - 1^st November.

Contact and Information for Room 9 2013

Twitter

You can see all the information at http://twitter.com/room9shsinv or get all the updates to your cellphone by texting follow @room9shsinv to 8987

Blogs

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/

Email

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.

IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY RECEIVED THIS NEWSLETTER VIA EMAIL IT MEANS I DO NOT HAVE YOUR E-MAIL or THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE E-MAIL ADDRESS I HAVE.

All class newsletters are also posted on the class blogsite under Parent Information Room 9.

For those of you who do not have internet or cell phone facilities for the above I will send a paper copy of any information home to you. Please let me know if you require paper copies of notices.

Kath Lieshout (Room 9 Teacher.)