Room 12 2022

 Wow, what a full-on week!  A few highlights from the week were seeing how much fun the kids had at athletics. Everyone had such a great attitude and try hard attitude. We also had a very fun day today with our Grandparents and special friends coming to spend mass with us. Thank you for the shared morning tea, we had a lovely healthy spread as well as some special treats. I lost my phone for most of the day, but did get a few photos from the Andrew Chinn session. I think it would be fair to say R12 won the most prizes so well done. We swim all week next week. As the team from Swimsation is in, we will be swimming first every morning so if kids want to wear their togs to school under their uniforms that would be fine.

  WEEK 2 TERM 4 2022. Mālo ni, Tokelau Language Week Celebrate: Sunday 23 October – Saturday 29 October. This year's theme for Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau – Tokelau Language Week is "Halahala ki vavau, kae ke mau ki pale o Tokelau" which means "To plan for the future is to understand the past." The theme connects to the overall theme for this year’s Pacific language weeks ‘sustainability’ and the launch of the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages. Sunday, 24th October What an Amazing Long Weekend! Just a quick reminder again to bring your library books, school hat, togs and towel. Your Chromebooks need to be charged and your headphones working please.   Whats On Week 2 : Athletics Day (see below for details) -Tuesday  Wednesday -  swimming, Library  Thursday -  Rosary,  Friday - Grandparents day and Andrew Chinn Week 3 : All Saints Day Mass Week 4 : Teacher Only Day, Cricket & Kuhui Ako Kapa Haka Week 5 : Cricket Week 6 : Mystery Trip, Cricket, Assembly W

 

Heart Rates - Steps = Healthy Lifestyles  Today we started our walk around the world. For the next 30 days, children will record their steps over a 24-hour period. We will record our steps at 9 am each day. Together we are challenging other children across New Zealand to walk.  We came up with a question - Do we have more steps when we walk or run around the field?   All the kids came up with a hypothesis or I think statement and then recorded our steps walking and running.  16 of the 27 students here today thought running would have more steps.  The conclusion we came up with was that walking actually gave you more steps. But our heart rate increased when we ran.   Brae’s maths- 763 steps - 232 steps already on his monitor = 531 steps walking 987 running steps - 763 already on his monitor= 224 steps running.   We also looked at how to take our heart rate. We counted how many beats for 30s and then doubled it. Indie resting heart rate = 48 beats per minute (24 in 30s) After her run

  TERM 4 DATES. Friday 21st October. Year 4 Mass , Colour Run at school 1.30 pm Tuesday 25th October.  Athletics Sports for Yr 4 to 6 students at Rotorua Stadium Friday 28th October. Grandparents/Grandfriends Mass 9.30am  Friday11th November. Kahui Ako Ahurei at JPC. Junior and Senior  Kapa Haka performing 21st -25th November.  Camps in Taupo for Totara students ( 5 & 6) Tuesday 6th December Junior Tryathlon 11.00 am Year 0 to 3 at school Thursday 8th December Tryathlon/Swimming Sports for Years 4 to 6 at Aquatic Centre Monday 12th December End of year Mass. 9.00 am Tuesday 13th December Big Day In (Y6)  Wednesday 14th December Prizegiving - 9:30-11:30  Thursday 15th December Missioning - 11-12:00 Thursday 15th December Last Day of the term

  Sunday, 16 October 2022 Term 4 - Let's Go! Just a quick reminder to bring your library books and school hat. Your Chromebooks need to be charged and your headphones working please.   We have an exciting term ahead - are you ready to get started? Week 1: Colour Fun Run, Year 4 mass on Friday Week 2: Athletics Day, Rosary, Grandparents day and Andrew Chinn,  swimming starts Week 3: All Saints Day Mass Week 4: Teacher Only Day, Cricket & Kuhui Ako Kapa Haka Week 5: Cricket Week 6: Mystery Trip, Cricket, Assembly Week 7: Advent liturgy Week 8: Swimming Sports Week 9: End of Year Mass and Farewells See - I told you it was exciting. Make sure you keep checking the class blog and the school notices to make sure you don't miss anything important.  Our Term 4 Learning RE: We are learning about what it means to belong to our Church family Literacy: We are looking at narratives (more accounts of events than Once upon a time) Maths: We're exploring some statistics and measurement