Ukelele Jam - website, and parent help needed

Kia ora whānau. We have the exciting opportunity, following on from our ukelele lessons with Baz, to take part in the Central Otago Ukelele jam.

When: Wed Nov 14th, 9:30am - 12:00noon

Where: Queenstown

We will need parents who are willing to transport students to Queenstown for the day. Please contact Mr Yeoman if you are able to help with this.

Here is a link to the songs we will be playing so you can practise hard and have some fun jamming between now and then!

Central Otago Ukelele Jam Music

Reminders for the next couple of days

Swimming - This Thurs Sept 27th please remember to bring your pyjamas/clothes for the swim safety program.

Cardboard City- Thurs Sept 27th – Fri Sept 28th, 7:30pm

You will need to bring:

Cardboard box big enough to sleep in

Bedroll, warm sleeping bag, pillow

Warm clothes, woollen hat

Toilet bag – toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloth, hairbrush

Bowl, spoon and cup

Torch

NO electronics and NO cell phones

Any medication your child is on in a named bag handed to me please.

On Friday all cardboard boxes must be taken home and equipment collected by 3pm. Please make arrangements for this to happen as we do not want things left here over the holidays!

Must Do Learning Tasks for Week 9-10

Here are your Must Do Learning Tasks for the next couple of weeks:

Writing
 - Choose your favourite memoir story that you've written recently. Edit it (use your quality writing check sheet!), proof read it, publish it for our writing wall.

Reading
 - Curious Minds reading & activity ( see other doc that I shared with you today)
-Reading Challenge (update the google sheet each day)

Maths
-Weekly Plan worksheets on %s, fractions and decimals
-Think Tank activities x 8

Eisteddfod Singing
-Presented to the class this week. Be ready by Tues 18th Sept

Maori
-Practice your new Te Reo and recap what we've already learnt

Have fun! As always please be proactive and ask me early if you have any questions or issues.

Ngā mihi

Mr Yeoman

Notices for this week - Week Nine of Term 3

Kia ora everyone. We enjoyed a great 'Kaboom' show today, weren't they amazing?! Great to see many of you inspired for your own creative percussion acts! Keep it up. We have an exciting program ahead this week with plenty of opportunity to be creative, and to enjoy and be inspired by other people's creativity.

Tues 18th Sept
-Father Vaughan to visit Room 6
-Eisteddfod Sining in Room 6
-11:40am Production practice
-1:30 Sing Squad and Music

Wed 19th Sept
-Mrs Tehuia-Holmes in Rm 6 (Mr Yeoman @ Enviro schools training event)
-Ukelele with Baz
-11:40 am Production practice
-2:00 'The Nukes' Ukelele show
-5:30pm Community 'Tech' evening

Thurs 20th Sept
-Swimming (leave school 9:15am, swim 9:45-10:15am). Bring pyjamas/clothes
-Creative writing workshop with visiting author Dean O'Brien
-1:30pm Deano Creative Writing show.

Fru 21st Sept
-Technology @ Terrace
-Blossom Fest Round the Clock Race!

Kia pai to wiki! Have a good week!

Mr Yeoman

Notices for this week - Week 8 of Term 3

Kia ora everyone. This week is Maori Language week, as well as Social Justice week, and is already Week Eight of the term! Here's a few things we have coming up:

Tues Sept 11th

-Sing Squad and Music 1:30pm
-Sticks 'n' Stones with Vanessa, 2-3pm

Wed Sept 12th

-Frisbee tournament with Rm 5 (wear PE gear)
-River monitoring group out with Mr Yeoman and Mr Hogue (see separate blog post - wear mufti)
-Vege garden
-Production singing practice

Thurs Sept 13th

-Swimming 1:30pm, early lunch. Wear PE gear

Fri Sept 14th

-Must Do Learning tasks to be completed.
-Ukelele with Baz 11:40am
-Buddy Reading and Assembly

Kia pai to wiki! Have a great week!

Mr Yeoman

River Monitoring - Trip Number Five Wed 12th Sept 2018

·      What - Continuing work on our long term science project, monitoring water quality around the Manuherikia River catchment.

·      When – Wed 12th Sept. 9:30am-3pm.

·      Where – Meet at school. Travel all around the Manuherikia catchment, including Chatto Ck, Lauder Ck, Dunstan Ck, Ida Burn and Manor Burn

·      What to bring & wear – Wear mufti. Warm clothes, rain jacket, beanie, sunhat, gumboots or old shoes, sunscreen, lunch, water bottle and any medications.(Optional: camera - you are responsible for this!)

·      Team members on this trip – Jess, Maggie, Sylvie, Amber, Lydia, Mia, Jade and Shannon.

·      Adults supervising this trip -  Mr Hogue and Mr Yeoman

Cardboard City Thurs Sept 27th – Fri Sept 28th

Cardboard City 

Thurs Sept 27th – Fri Sept 28th

St Gerard’s School

7:30pm

Dear Parents

On the final Thursday night of this term Room 6 students will be taking part in the annual St Gerards ‘Cardboard City’ as a follow up to Social Justice week. Cardboard City is an opportunity for the children to experience a small taste of some of the real-life conditions other children their age around the world face on a daily basis.  Hopefully it will help them to gain a greater thankfulness for the things we have – security, a warm bed to sleep in and good food to eat. We also hope it will encourage in them a greater generosity.

The children will come to school on Thursday night at 7:30pm having had dinner already. They will sleep outside the school library/staffroom area in cardboard boxes, will have a simple porridge breakfast and a rice meal for lunch. No other food or snacks are to be brought.

As with everything we do, we will need parents to stay the night.  No - you do not need to sleep in a cardboard box (but it would be great if you choose to!), a tent or a bedroll on the floor inside would be fine. Parents do not need to stay at school during the day on Friday but I would appreciate help with parents cooking the rice for lunch.  

On Friday all cardboard boxes must be taken home and equipment collected by 3pm. Please make arrangements for this to happen as we do not want things left here over the holidays!

The children will need to bring:

Cardboard box big enough to sleep in

Bedroll, warm sleeping bag, pillow

Warm clothes, woollen hat

Toilet bag – toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloth, hairbrush

Bowl, spoon and cup

Torch

NO electronics and NO cell phones

Any medication your child is on in a named bag handed to me please.

If you are able to stay the night, or can deliver some cooked rice to school for lunch on Friday please contact Mr Yeoman asap ollieyeoman@stgerards.school.nz

Thanks for your support

Mr Yeoman

Must Do Learning Tasks - Week 7-8 Term 3

Reading
-Personal Reading pages to be completed.
-Curious Minds reading and activity

Maths
-Weekly plan worksheets x3
-Think Tank activities. 4 to be completed, marked, and tracked on your tracking sheet each week. Total of 8 activities expected to be completed.
-Rotational symmetry art activity

Writing
-Memoir writing piece. Drafted, edited, published.

Spelling
-Learn words from List 34 and complete and mark the word activities.

RE
-Complete Sacrament tasks

Eisteddfod
-Singing preparations

Te Reo
-Practice new learning

Optional
-Book Talk
-Book Letter

REMEMBER: No separate homework is set, however it is expected that you will be spending some time each night working on these tasks, or enjoying reading your book.

Week Seven notices

Here's the week ahead - plenty of fun and interesting things going on as usual!

Tues 4th Sept
-Kapa Haka tour to Dunstan Educare and Little Oaks Early Learning Centre. 10am-11:15am.
-Sing Squad and Music at 1:30pm.

Wed 5th Sept (wear PE gear)
-9:00am Frisbee
-10:30am Ukelele with Baz
-1:30pm Student Council meeting
-1:30pm Vege Gardening
-2:30pm Production singing practice
+ ODT Extra Current Events Quiz in Cromwell, at Cromwell College Gymnasium. Meet at the churh car park 5:45pm

Thurs 6th Sept
-School photos. Wear full winter uniform.
-Swimming. 1:30 leave school, 2:00 swim, 2:30 return to school

Fri 7th Sept
-Technology at The Terrace

Cheers!

Eisteddfod Singing

Kia ora Room 6. Here is the Eisteddfod Singin marking sheet. You have a couple of weeks to get prepared, we will be having class Eisteddfods in Week 9 of the term. Remember, you can have a backing track, you can play an instrument, and you can have support backing singers, but you must be the lead singer. Have fun! Ask if you want help! Kia Maia - Be Brave!

Singing  Eisteddfod Assessment

Name:  __________________                      Song:  ___________________

WALTs:

·     Prepare and present a song using performance skills and techniques

·     Reflect on the live performances of the eisteddfod songs

Introduction (Song name, Artist, Original Writer, Message, History etc)	/5
Pitch (How well do I sing in tune?)	/5
Diction (How clearly do pronounce my words?)	/5
Audience suitability (Are the words and message in the song appropriate, enjoyable and entertaining for the audience?)	/5
Preparation (Have I learnt my words and been well organised?)	/5
Teacher/student comment	/25