Term 4 Week 8 Homework for Room 4

Keeping you up to date … Monday: Splash Planet Fun Day Out for our Road Patrol Students. Tuesday: Ms. Edwards will be coaching the students in room 4 for gymnastics. Ms. Edwards worked in room 4 during the year as a Candidate Teacher and is an experienced gymnastics teacher. ALL students need their PE gear please. Wednesday: Police Marathon Madness for those students who have put their hand up to be involved in this exciting marathon. Thursday: The Librarians' Picnic. Friday: School-wide Tabloids Friday afternoon - starting @ 1pm.  REMEMBER YOUR PE GEAR + A DRINK BOTTLE PLEASE.  Sunday: Top-Schools @ Raureka for those 12 students in room 4 concerned. …………………………………………… REMINDERS … We are swimming every day - students are reminded to bring their togs to school please. This is an expected part of the school curriculum. If students are unable to swim, it is expected they have a note to excuse them please. Remember to return all your library books to school.  Please return any school journals and reading books to school.

Thank you to those parents who were able to attend our Team Mass on Friday.  Thank you if you were able to contribute a food item for the food bank also. Homework: There will not be any spelling words sent home this week. Students will have short sharp lessons on spelling this week in class as revision.  All students have free access to Spelling City for 30 days.  Take advantage of this opportunity. It has some excellent resources for reading and writing also. READING: Read for 10 minutes + your age every night.  Remember the more you read, the better you’ll get!  Variety is important also.  Choose from a range of different texts such as newspapers, fiction (make-believe), non-fiction (true), journals and chapter books.  TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FREE READING PROGRAMME AT THE LIBRARY OVER SUMMER. This is available at the Hastings, Flaxmere and Havelock North libraries.   Registrations open this week so get in quick! MATHS: We are learning about PROBABILITY in maths.  Visit IXL to practise the probability questions. Keep learning your basic facts too - Remember if you know the basic facts in maths, this helps you enormously when you need to use your strategies! The free access to MathsBuddy ends at the end of the year.