Homework due Week 8 (Thur 24th March)

• 100wc - The prompt this week has been set by Year 6 at Nine Mile Ride Primary SchoolThey have chosen five words for you to include in your writing. They can go anywhere and in any order. The words are:

Lie   Row   Fly   Chips   Sweet

• 5sc - this time we have a busy picture, choose something in it that you would like to write about

• Spelling words (List 6) to be learnt for Thursday (these have been sent through google doc)
• Today everyone brought home a letter for our upcoming skype night.  Please read and return asap
• Extra PE gear to school each Mon, Tue and Wed
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Homework Due Week 7 (Fri 18th March)

• Spelling words to be learnt for Thursday
• Extra PE clothing to be brought to school Tue, Wed, Thur
• Diary signed for Tuesday
• Math-a-thon revision for Fri (stapled inside diary)

• 100wc due Thur- This week I lost my wifi connection at home. I was in a real state which was quite worrying that life can be so dependant on the internet. Anyway, the good thing was that a local coffee shop let me use their connection and I was able to get it all done.

So, I am using that experience for this week’s prompt and it is:

…when the connection broke… 

Things to consider:
What / who was being connected to what?
Why would it be a problem if it was broken?
What happened after the connection was broken?

• 5 Sentence Challenge (double click to enlarge)

Homework due Week 6 (Fri 11th March)

• Please note that due to Easter following in our Term time this year, we are on holiday on Friday, Monday and Tuesday
• House Captain, Class Leader and Sports Leader speeches are taking place this week.  If your child is putting themselves forward for one of these positions, please encourage them at home by listening to their speech.
• We are no longer swimming as part of our sport.  This will be replaced by small/large ball skills.  Can you please ask your child to put a separate sports top in their bag each Mon, Tue and Wed so that they can change into.  If they do not have a BIS one, they can bring an alternative sports top
• Diaries signed for Tue

• Spelling words to be learnt for Thur
• Math-a-thon - have a look at questions in diary (these are stapled in front page) in order to be ready for maths on FRIDAY
• 100wc: please send from google doc as..... Week 6 (title of story) by........

This week we have a photograph for you to look at. It is a statue of 3 men talking.

Things to think about before writing:

• Look at how they are dressed?
• What country might they be in?
• What jobs do they do?
• What could they be talking about?
• Are they happy/worried/concerned?

• 5 Sentence Challenge :

This time we have a photo. It is of a sculpture that you can see in the grounds of Tewkesbury Abbey.

I want you to look really closely at the children. What do you notice? Are they playing a game? What might they be saying to each other?

Take great care with your sentences and make sure they have a full stop and a capital letter. I’ll let you decide where they go!

• I am on a course on Friday and will not be in school.  Peter Fitzgerald will be relieving for me for the day.  If you wish to speak to me about anything, please do so before Thursday.
• Bridge Valley Trip nex Monday - please make sure that you have the following items with you 
  Suitable mufti clothes suitable for playing sport in (school PE uniform is OK)
  Sports shoes
  Warm top
  Rain jacket
  Sun hat
  Drink bottle
  Lunch with snacks
  Medication if needed
  TOGS AND TOWEL
  We are planning on leaving at 8.50am SHARP. So make sure you are at school on time, otherwise you may miss out.  $2 also needs to be given to Mrs Parker asap so that she can distribute this among the drivers for their petrol.

Homework Due Week 5 (Fri 4th March)

• Check out these websites in preparation for our Skype session with Christopher Tozier tomorrow when he will be talking to us about writing stories;

http://www.oliviabrophie.com
http://www.christophertozier.com/

• Spelling words to be learnt for Thur
• Math-a-thon - have a look at questions in diary (these are stapled in front page) in order to be ready for maths on FRIDAY
• Swim sporgs this Friday.  Hunt out anything blue that you can wear on the poolside to represent Monaco.  Please remember - NO PAINT OF ANY DESCRIPTION ALLOWED, THIS ALSO INCLUDES HAIR DYE.  The filters at the pool cannot cope with this.
• Letters for Bridge Valley went home today.  Please return asap
• 100wc challenge due Thur 9am...(remember to send this via google doc if possible and title it Week 5, Term 1.  After this, give your story a title)

Write your 100 piece on a Super Hero. It can be someone you know, a character you have read about or someone you have invented!

• 5 Sentence Challenge.  Write your 5 sentences on a Super Hero. It can be someone you know, a character you have read about or someone you have invented!

Homework Due Week 4 (Fri 26th Feb)

• Check out these websites in preparation for our Skype session with Christopher Tozier next week when he will be talking to us about writing stories;

http://www.oliviabrophie.com
http://www.christophertozier.com/

• Spelling activities to be completed for Tue (finishing off work from last week)
• Have you found out where your ancestors are from?? please do so by TUE
• Immunisation forms due back by THUR at the latest
• Spelling words to be learnt for Thur
• Can you attend our skype at 7pm on THUR?? If so, email Mrs Parker
• Math-a-thon - have a look at questions in diary (these are stapled in front page) in order to be ready for maths on FRIDAY
• 100wc challenge due Thur 9am...

We have five words that need to be put in your writing this week. They can be in any order but must all be used. They are:

…Gas,  Dancer,  Green,  Swimming,  Likely…

• 5 Sentence Challenge (double click the image to make it clearer)

                                              Tech

This term for tech our class is doing wood work and cooking. So far in cooking we have made fruit kebabs, fruit smoothies and banana delight. In wood works we have made chopping boards,wooden spoons and pen and pencil holders.We love cooking because we get to eat everything and because we learn lots of techniques for knives, handling fruit and much more.We also love wood work because you get to make stuff and bring it home to share it with your family. Our tech days are tusday and thursday.

Homework Due Week 3 (Fri 19th Feb)

Diary signed by parents for Tue

Togs to school each Mon and Wed til week 6

Bikes to be brought to school Mon, Tue, Wed (note, this is only for 8 pupils in Rm 11 who regularly bike to school)

Spelling words to be learnt for Thur

Class dojo sheet to be returned signed

Find out where parents/grand parents originated fro if not NZ

Writing homework (your child knows which writing prompt they need to use)

100 word challenge: The prompt this week was an old fashioned looking picture by Jean Marc Cote painted in 1889. It was his idea of what the year 2000 would look like! Email story to cparker@broadgreen.school.nz by Thursday 9am

5 sentence challenge for emergent writers :Please make sure you visit other posts and leave a supportive comment. Our emerging writers need lots of support and encouragement!

The prompt this time is :

Going shopping on a rainy day

Some things to think about:

• what shops are you going to?
• How wet is the weather?
• What will you have to wear?
• What will it feel like?
• What do you buy?

Email story to cparker@broadgreen.school.nz by Thursday 9am