Aydin's Birthday

 Aydin celebrated his birthday on the last day of school for term three. Have a great holiday Aydin and all of Rooms 16 and 17.

Celebration Time!

Shared Lunch Thursday-Celebration

To celebrate the end of this term we will have a shared lunch on Thursday. 

Please bring a plate of food to share. Fruit and crackers are welcome!
In the afternoon we will be having some games!!

Davey's birthday

It was Davey's birthday on Saturday 23rd of September, so we sang Happy Birthday to him. We will be having a shared lunch on Thursday to celebrate the end of term and all recent class birthdays.

WEEK 10!

WEEK 10..WE MADE IT!

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THIS TERM WITH YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING. BOTH OUR YEAR 3 AND OUR YEAR 4 STUDENTS HAVE ALL MADE SOME HUGE PROGRESS THIS YEAR TO DATE AND WE ARE VERY PROUD OF THEM. THIS WEEK WE WILL BE DOING SOME ASSESSMENTS AND MAYBE SOME TESTING FOR SOME STUDENTS.

WE ALSO HOPE TO HAVE SOME FUN ACTIVITIES THIS WEEK.

ENJOY THE WEEK AND ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS EVEN MORE!

REGARDS,

BERNIE:-)

Holiday reading logs have been given to children. I have sourced some summer themed prizes: boogie boards, skim boards, snorkel and flippers as well as all the other stuff and they are now on display in the hall foyer. Please encourage your children to start the logs as soon as they get them. Children are able to take journals and class library books home if they ask. There is some fantastic stuff going on at the City Library over the holidays too:

http://www.rotorualibrary.govt.nz/what-we-offer/children/whats-on/Pages/School-Holiday-Activities.aspx

There will be a celebration in the staffroom on Thursday at 9:45am for several children nominated from each classroom, who have done particularly well this term. Nominated children will be notified early in the week.

Pasifika practice in the hall 11am on Friday.

Reminder:

Forms for parent input into 2018 class placements were issued the week before last to each student. Parents  - please note these forms need to be returned by Friday 29 September if you wish us to consider your input. The forms need to be returned to the big blue postal box in the student foyer.

Thanks to those parents who have already returned the form for their child/ren.

If you have mislaid or not seen the form you can collect a copy from the School Office or go to this link

Touch Rugby starts this week for those students signed up, so check practice times. Mrs Hall’s Weka's team will be training on Tuesday at 12:30.

ALIM SHARING DAY

TODAY SOME OF OUR PARENTS GOT TO SEE WHAT THEIR CHILD HAS BEEN LEARNING IN ALIM. 
THANKS YOU TO THOSE WHO WERE ABLE TO ATTEND.
IF YOU WERE UNABLE ASK YOUR CHILD AT HOME WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING IN ALIM.

School Disco Thursday

Science with Mrs Barker

 Mrs Barker the science lady from Waikato University came to model some science for Ruma Weta children and the teachers on Tuesday.
We learnt Notice / Think / Wonder

WEEK 9

Over the next couple of weeks we will be completing our strand work, finishing assessments, testing some students in reading and up dating our student blogs.
In week 2 of term 4 we are hosting assembly. The students may have some things to practice for it at home. 
Golden time Friday is Wheels Day so bring in something with wheels and we can have some fun!
Please encourage your child to practice their spelling words.
The words are found on the homework label.


MATHS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK-CLICK ON HERE!

Holiday reading logs will go out again soon. We have sourced some summer themed prizes: boogie boards, skim boards, snorkel and flippers as well as all the other stuff.

Please encourage your children to start the logs as soon as they get them.

There is some fantastic stuff going on at the City Library over the holidays too. :http://www.rotorualibrary.govt.nz/what-we-offer/children/whats-on/Pages/School-Holiday-Activities.aspx

On Tuesday we will be lucky enough to have Anne Barker from Waikato University coming in to model science for some classes and run a staff meeting. Rooms 16 and 17 will have their turn in the afternoon.

Kapa haka is on this Thursday - 2pm.

Gymnastics competition at Migs - Friday, letters will go out to students involved.

Pasifika Group meet on Fridays at 11am.

PTA disco this Thursday 21st   5.30-7pm.

MONDAY
Spelling Practice

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY
SINGING
GO 4 IT

THURSDAY
MANDARIN
KAPA HAKA

FRIDAY
GOLDEN TIME
ASSEMBLY

ST MARY'S NETBALLERS MEET KATRINA GRANT!

THE ANGELS NETBALL TEAM GOT TO MEET KATRINA GRANT LAST NIGHT!

WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY!

MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK

THIS WEEK WE HAD ROTATIONS FOR MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK.

WE HAD MANY DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES WHICH THE TEACHERS HAD ORGANISED FOR THE STUDENTS.

READING FOR MEANING.

At reading time today we had to read, summarise what we had read, list reasons why we would recommend the story to others.
We also began to do some inferencing of the text.

MATHS PROBLEM SOLVING ....STARTING WITH THE ANSWER!

Today we worked in groups to solve some tricky problems!! It was great to help each other!

WEEK 8

MATHS GAME OF THE WEEK. 
TRY THIS WITH THE WHANAU.

FLYING RACE

WELL DONE KYLE FOR YOUR DEBUT IN 'SHREK'! YOU ROCKED!

STEAM PUDDINGS FOR SALE WEDNESDAY – Yummy Yummy!

Steam pudding with custard will be for sale at school on Wednesday the of 13^th September for only $2. 

Please order through your classroom teacher.

Proceeds will go to support activities run by the Whanau Group. 

If anyone is available to assist with the delivery of the puddings on Wednesday. Please come along to the hall kitchen at 1pm. 

MAORI MIHI-CLICK HERE.

MONDAY
MOARI LANGUAGE WEEK-SONGS
SPELLING TEST
TUESDAY
MOARI LANGUAGE WEEK-PHRASES-
MAORI PHRASES TO PRACTICE-CLICK HERE.
CALENDAR ART BEGUN
WEDNESDAY
MOARI LANGUAGE WEEK-COLOURS
SINGING
GO 4 IT
THURSDAY
MOARI LANGUAGE WEEK-ROTATIONS MIDDLE SCHOOL 11:00-12:30
KAPA HAKA
MANDARIN
FRIDAY
MOARI LANGUAGE WEEK-ART
ASSEMBLY
GOLDEN TIME-WHEELS DAY

Science!

Science with water. Mr Billing came  to our class to do some science. It was fun. We made predictions then we discussed how accurate we were.

Learning about homophones in literacy time today

We are learning about homophones and what they

mean.

ASK ME!

We are learning about the many different items seen in our Church. We are beginning to understand the importance of these items. As me about it at home!

WEEK 7 TERM 3

A SHOUT OUT TO ALL DADS TODAY!

We have our Nativity of Mary Mass on Friday at 9:000am. 
All welcome..our new families will be welcomed at this Mass also.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT THE NATIVITY OF MARY

• Date: September 8
• Type of Feast: Feast
• Readings: Micah 5:1-4A or Romans 8:28-30; Psalm 13:6AB, 6C; Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23 or Matthew 1:18-23 (full text here)
• Prayers: The Hail Mary, Prayer for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Other Names for the Feast: The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary; 
• The Virgin Mary's Birthday-click to read more.

There are only three people whose birthdays have traditionally been celebrated by Christians. Jesus Christ, at Christmas; Saint John the Baptist; and the Blessed Virgin Mary. And we celebrate all three birthdays for the same reason: All three were born without Original Sin. Christ, because He was conceived by the Holy Spirit; Mary, because she was kept free from the stain of Original Sin by the action of God in His foreknowledge that she would agree to be the mother of Christ; and Saint John, because he was blessed in the womb by the presence of his Savior when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, came to aid her cousin Elizabeth in the final months of Elizabeth's pregnancy.

SO THERE YOU GO....IT'S IMPORTANT STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE REASON WHY WE CELEBRATE THE FEASTS WE DO.

WE WILL EXPLORE THIS FEAST DAY MORE THIS WEEK IN CLASS.

There are some bugs going around so please keep your child home if they are sick. 

Home reading -please keep your child reading if they are on this programme and remind them to return books on Friday so a new one can be issued.

Thank you for getting your child to class on time. There is always a lot happening in a typical school day. By term 3 we expect all students to get ready for the morning day activities independently, so you could remind them to have their chrome books and maths books ready first thing, and be checking to see what rotation they begin with in maths.

Ruma Weta recently had maths observations by an independent advisor. She was impressed with how we rotate groups and what resources we are using in numeracy time. We use a range of text book, digital, board games, wild card activities, and maths whizz and also two teachers working with groups at any one time.

Great work..the results of our students in Maths has been enormous this year so far!!

Maths of the week:
Race Cars click and play!

MONDAY

Spelling Test

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Singing

Go-4-It

THURSDAY

Mandarin

Kapa Haka

FRIDAY

Mass @ 9:00am-all welcome!

Golden Time

Have a great week,

Bernie