Hi Everyone! Well, it’s Term 4 again for another year and hasn’t it come around so quickly? 60-odd days to Christmas… not long to go now before we start practicing singing carols for the end of year carols concert.
As you know, on the school website
is a link to the School Calendar, which we teachers are sure you use often.
Below is a summary of upcoming events particular to the Year 3-4 team:
Dates for your Diary:
Dates for your Diary:
·
Dress-up Day
and Antarctica performance: Thursday 7th November
·
Athletic Day-
Monday 11th November
·
Swimming
Starts in Week 7 (November 25th onwards, weather depending) –
Monday-Tuesday: Year 3, Wednesday-Thursday: Year 4.
·
Celebration
of Learning will be held on Tuesday 3rd December, 3:00pm-6:00pm
·
Year 1-3
Anniversary reporting will take place Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th
December.
·
EOTC Week
will be the week starting Monday 9th November
Although these dates are accurate at
the time of publishing, event dates can change and we encourage you to
regularly check the school website calendar for the most up-to-date days and
times for upcoming events.
Looking back over the terms this year, it has been such a busy year filled with so many amazing learning experiences. The teachers hope that you are able to visit your child’s class blog from time to time and see for yourself some of the wonderful learning opportunities that happen in their classroom.
The flowing is an outline of what will be happening this term. Later in the year, an extra email about E.O.T.C will be sent by your child’s teacher, so look out for that!
READING AND WRITING:
Our writing focus for this term is Argument Writing. There is also the ongoing focus on embedding effective editing and proofreading skills into every piece of writing the children do.
Oral language will focus on the oral presentation of poems and stories orally, with a focus on using vocal expression and confident body language. This will lead up to the Christmas concert, where each year group will be presenting a small poem or Christmas story, alongside the usual singing of carols.
Reading continues in all classes, with particular emphasis on reading for meaning and (out aloud) for expression. Reading and performing a variety of different plays will feature.
NUMERACY:
We start the term in cross-grouped classes, re-visiting the addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fraction skills learned earlier in the year. Ongoing basic facts practice and learning how to problem solve will also feature. Later in the term, children will return to their homeroom for maths, and the focus will change to measurement, statistics and geometry.
PE:
Each Tuesday afternoon in the lead up to Athletics Day in Week 5, the children will be taking part in Athletics practice. The school’s Athletics Day is Monday 11th November here at school and at Eastbourne Rec. The PE team, a little closer to the time, will send an email about this.
Swimming is scheduled to start in Week 7, (Monday 25th November) however in reality this date is weather dependent and we will not begin swimming until the weather has warmed up a little.
We start the term in cross-grouped classes, re-visiting the addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fraction skills learned earlier in the year. Ongoing basic facts practice and learning how to problem solve will also feature. Later in the term, children will return to their homeroom for maths, and the focus will change to measurement, statistics and geometry.
PE:
Each Tuesday afternoon in the lead up to Athletics Day in Week 5, the children will be taking part in Athletics practice. The school’s Athletics Day is Monday 11th November here at school and at Eastbourne Rec. The PE team, a little closer to the time, will send an email about this.
Swimming is scheduled to start in Week 7, (Monday 25th November) however in reality this date is weather dependent and we will not begin swimming until the weather has warmed up a little.
ART:
We will be teaching your child how to sew this term! Most classes will start by teaching children how to thread a needle, tie a knot and sew a simple stitch. As the term progresses, children will learn to cross-stitch and sew some simple patterns on material.
E.O.T.C. Week:
Planning for E.O.T.C. Week in Week 9 is underway, and we are planning a fun filled week of events close to home, with a “use your smarts’ theme. The children will participate in a technology challenge, arts and craft, and a beach day among other events. A schedule of events will be posted on this blog over the coming weeks. Most of the events this year won’t require additional parent helpers, but if this changes, we’ll let you know via email. However you are always more than welcome just to come down and join in if you like ☺
Celebration of Learning evening (3.00-6.00pm, Tuesday 3rd December
Week 8)
Once again we invite you to come and share
with your child a wonderful year full of learning. Your child will show you
around the room, sharing their artwork, then they will invite you to look
through their books and talk about the learning that has happened throughout
the year. Each classroom will be open from 3.00pm until 6.00pm.
As you can see, it is a very, very busy term. To contact us, the easiest way is
to email us (teachers surname @muritai.school.nz), or just pop in.
Kind Regards,
Kind Regards,
The Year 3 and 4 Team.
