Week 8 - Term 2 - 2022

This term has flown by, with a lot of rain - Week 8 already. We had some exciting news on Friday, there will be a production in Term 3. Little Red Rocking Hood. The main characters will be made up of senior students but there are a lot of other parts if children would like to have a role. Mrs. Trask will be working on this in our class in Week 10 while I am away.

Last Wednesday, the two ripper teams that I coach placed in the top three at the  Central Bay of Plenty school's tournament. This means that I will be out again on Wednesday as we represent Central Bay at the Bay Wide Ripper Tournament.

With the weather the way, it is currently please make sure that kids' gear is labeled. It's hot then cold, they take it off and sometimes lose it. If it's labeled, it's easy to return it to the kids.

There has been an awful bug going around school, I am hoping we are through the worst of it as it seems to be worse than covid. Please keep kids at home if they are sick. They can still do math Whizz, writing and reading if they are feeling well enough. 

This week:

Monday:

Golf - 8:45-12 These students have been selected

Math basics facts

Chess Finals

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Ripper Rugby - Mrs Dinniss is out of class

Thursday:

Sacred Heart Mass 11:30

Kapa Haka

Friday: Matariki Public Holiday - No school

Learning this week:

Maths: we are continuing to explore multiplication and how it works. Skip counting, doubles and knowing tens and ones in a 2 digit number are really helpful pieces of quick knowledge for our work this week.

Literacy: we are exploring how authors write to hook their readers. Wow words, interesting sentences and even punctuation make a difference. You could look at books at home and find interesting words, see how the author uses long and short sentences and see if you can spot a simile or a metaphor.

RE: "I am the bread of life". We will be talking about how Jesus talks about light and what it all means.