Letter to parents- sustainability walks

Room 3

St Anne’s School

23 May 2012

Dear Parents/ caregivers,

We have been talking about sustainability in our class this term and in particular we have been learning a lot about  trees. To finish off our unit, we will be having two walkabouts down Ferry Road. One visit will be to Trees for Canterbury in Charlesworth Street on Wednesday 6 June between 11am and 12.30pm. We will be going there to have a look at how Trees for Canterbury collect, plant and distribute plants and trees to the people of Canterbury. We will also be making ourselves familiar with several different native trees and what they look like. Steve Bush is a great communicator and he will be able to share a lot of  information  with the children. June 6 is Arbor Day so this is a great day to be visiting a nursery.

Then on Monday 11 June we will be planting trees with Andrew Crossland from the Christchurch City Council at the Charlesworth Reserve between 12 and 3pm. Children need to have jackets, their lunch, a drink and sneakers to take with them. This is so our children can take part in improving their local environment in a meaningful and practical way.

Please advise me if there are any problems I need to be aware of e.g.asthma etc.

Sincerely

Pam Grant

Our Identity Quilt

Each student at St Anne's school was learning about identity last term.We all got to do a picture on a piece of fabric, then Mrs Parker got some students from school  and Dale the sewing teacher  from Phillipstown to sew all the fabric together to make a St Anne's identity quilt.
We were the first to see the quilt in the Mission Centre after morning tea. We were amazed by its beauty.
By Madeline

Mother's Day Assembly

Today was our assembly and we talked about mothers because it is Mother's Day on Sunday.
Taurean got to sing a bit of a song by himself and he was perfectly in tune.
 Well done Taurean.

                                                                    Railynnetta and Mads did the bible readings.

After the prayers some children said what they liked to do with their mothers.

Homework

Remember to help measure the ingredients for your homework this week. Tony and I can test your lolly cake if you bring a piece to school.

MEASUREMENT

Now we are measuring how heavy things are with the scales.


MaryJane and Evie are both trying to read the scales-the numbers are really small Letone is filling up his bag of beans ready to be weighed.

 Finn has to be sure that the scales are on 0 before he starts to weigh.

 Charlie is trying to estimate how heavy Asa's bag of beans is by comparing it with his own bag. Which one is heavier Charlie?

MEASUREMENT

This week we started our maths about measurement by making a timer that would time one minute.
Some of the timers worked and some didn't because the holes were too big.

"Our timer worked out to be great. It measured exactly one minute"  said Paige.

"Dont have too much salt Finn. Where do you put the hole?" asked Evie.

                                Room 3 Newsletter      Term 2 2012

Dear Parents/ caregivers

Welcome back to another busy term in Room 3. I hope you are all rested and looking forward to an exciting term of learning together.

The RE programme will continue this term by looking at the rest of the Easter season which finishes at Pentecost. We have a parish and school mass that weekend so we hope to see you all there on Sunday. The musical was an outstanding success but it has put us behind with our strand work so after Pentecost, we will finish the Jesus Strand and get started on or God Strand.

This term our key idea is SUSTAINABILITY. We will be focussing on trees and why they are so important to our world. Hopefully if the weather is kind, we will be visiting Trees for Canterbury and helping to plant trees at the Charlesworth Reserve later in the term, as well as learning about native and introduced trees. I will let you know when this is happening closer to the time.

With written language, the focus for the school is Information Report and we will be writing different reports through the term. This year because the children are in Year 4 they need to complete Asttle tests so their knowledge and understanding can be compared with their peers in New Zealand- as required by National Standards. We will share your children’s results with you at report time at the end of the term.

Our maths starts off with the measurement of time- seconds and minutes, and length- metres and centimetres. The children may be investigating some of these concepts in their homework as well as doing spelling and reading weekly. Thank you for all the help you give to get this homework completed and handed in by Thursday morning.

To keep up to date with the classroom activities you may like to visit our blog-stannes103blogspot. You or your family are welcome to post comments at any time. It is great to share the blog with family in other cities or countries even!

Our music and PE programme are to be led by outside experts this term so ask your children what they are doing in these areas.

Looking forward to a term full of interesting things to do and learn. Let’s keep healthy by not spreading winter germs to others in the class. If you have sick children keep them at home please.

If I can help with any school problems contact me at school.

Take care and God bless

Pam Grant