Term1 2010

Term 1 2010 Room 9 Class Newsletter

Dear Parents,

I am really excited to be teaching your children this year. At present there are 29 Year 5 & 6 children 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 we have rules? 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 1st-12thth of March. There will be more about this at a later date. We have PE on Tuesdays and Thursday 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 shape and colour using the mediums of paint or pastel.



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.

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
5th Feb School Mass 9.30am
9th Feb Parent Night
17th Feb Ash Wednesday
1st 12th March Swimming
19th March Beach Education Day
YEAR 6 (only) Camp 15-19th November at Bannockburn.

We have a classroom blog this can be found at http://room9shsinv.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 lie 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 blogite .

Kath Lieshout
Room 9 Teacher.