Awesome B 2 class !!

Dear parents & caregivers,

Welldone to the following students who brought in their Advent Wreaths. The task was to design an Advent Wreath using Recycled things. 

These are some of the finished presentations. 

                   Roman's Wreath

        Anjolina's Wreath

      Bronson's Wreath

    Ezekiel's Wreath

  Atiyanah's Wreath

    Cerenity's Wreath

    Sorona's Wreath

     Palepa's Wreath

 Display of Wreaths

     Mila's Wreath

 Shaylee's Wreath

     Lauren's Wreath

Keep up the great work!

Tomorrow is our End of Year Mass at St. Therese Church at 11 a.m. Please if you could send in a can of food for the less fortunate people in our Community. Christmas is a time of giving and sharing with those who have none. Thanks.

B2 students have been busy designing their own Personal Rosary and their Personal Prayer Book. These will be blessed at the Mass by Rev. Father Manoj. Very proud of all their hard work. The students will come home with their own Rosary and Prayer Book. So proud of my lovely students.

       

Homework Week 7

Hello parents & caregivers,

It's been very busy with Testing, Assessments and Report writing.  I'm very proud of my students progress for this academic year. 

Rosary Project: This term we have learnt about Traditional and Devotional Prayers and as a part of our learning we are designing our own Personal Rosary and Prayer book. The Rosary and Prayer book should be ready by this week . They will be blessed during our End of Term Mass on Friday Week 8. 

This week B 2 students will be learning about Advent and its meaning as the Advent season begins on 2nd December. The students will be designing an Advent Wreath as a part of their learning.

  

Spelling words: Find tricky words from your text and clarify them.

Writing: Persuasive text.

"No hat no play" Why do we need a hat to play outside during Morning Tea and Lunch Breaks?

Home Work

Dear parents & caregivers,

      School finishes early tomorrow at 1 pm in the afternoon. Please see that the students are picked up early and are safe. Thanks for your support.

Spelling words:

Find tricky words from your text and clarify them.

Solve the following equations:

234 + 435=         564 + 345=        78 + 45=

34 x 5=        55 x 4 =       22 x 4 =

 Learn your time tables 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ,6

Writing: Write a Persuasive text.

Topic: Why you deserve to get a Christmas gift?

Convince your parents with your reasons?

 

Home Work

Dear Parents & Caregivers, it has been a busy week with lots of testing and new learning. Thanks for your support.

Spelling Words:

Butterflies                    Ladybugs & Caterpillars

aborigine                         election

diorama                           protection

analysis                             construction

immunisation                  instruction

discrimination                 honour

migration                         sermon

abstract                            wholesale

epilogue                            justice

equatorial                        encourage

resistance                         cultivate

Solve the following Equations:

23 +12=       45 + 34=       76 + 54=        98 + 67=

76 - 54 =         98 - 54 =      87 - 45=    75 - 65 =

Learn your Time Table 3, 4 , 5, 6 , 7

Year 4 :

987 - 345=      765 - 587=        687 - 498=

354 x 6 =       765 x 7 =          876 x 12=

BEDMAS:

{5 X 3} X 7 + 32 +45=

{9 X 9 +34} + 87 =

Write an Explanation about how to stay safe while crossing the road. { Remember the Structure of an Explanation Text.}

TERM 4 WELCOME BACK!!

Hello parents and caregivers,

 It's  a busy term with lots of testing , new learning and getting ready for Christmas. Thanks for your continuous support with your lovelies in their journey. Would like to thank my lovely girls who danced with grace on Friday at the Beginning of Term 4 Mass. It was so prayerful and reverent. Hats off to my girls for their hard work. 

Home work : Spelling words

Butterflies            Ladybugs   & Caterpillars

awkward                   experience

vacuum                      suite

accelerate                   address

cafeteria                     pigeon

chauffeur                   democracy

colonel                     stomach

commemorate         candidate

Cylinder                  horrific

delinquent              fragile

hypocrisy               column

Writing:

Write an explanation about Doing my Homework.

Follow the Structure please.

Solve the following using place values.

75 + 77=           94 + 76=               89 + 76 =

97 + 88 =          79 + 45 =             78 + 55 =

88 + 45 =        765 + 456=              987 + 546=

987 + 234 =     654 + 876=          876 + 345 =

Year 4 Maths:

DIVISIONS BOX METHOD:

8765  ÷ 7 =             6574 ÷ 5 =      7654 ÷  6 =

654 ÷  6 =               976 ÷ 4 =          545 ÷ 4 =

MULTIPLICATIONS:

345 X 6 =           456  X 6=         765 X 3 =

 

Welcome Back!!

Hello parents & caregivers,

I hope you guys are enjoying the break with your lovelies and getting all the rest needed before we start off our most busiest term.

Before I begin to think about Term 4 I would like to thank every single parent of B2 Class for your continuous love and support all through the Term. I'm very proud of my amazing students who are always eager to learn and enjoy all the new challenges that comes their way. Thank you parents for supporting your children and me in our success. "Success is the work of one but many"

Home Work: Find tricky words from your Duffy books , clarify them and make meaningful sentences.

Choose one character that was your most favourite or a character that you would like to change in the story. Tell why you would like to change the character? { Duffy books please}

Solve the following equations:

Year 3: Use place value to solve addition, subtraction equations.

764 + 634 =                 876 + 654 =       543 + 354 =

987 + 765 =             543 + 453 =           987 + 564 =

876 - 564=             897 - 654 =           765 - 543 =

Learn your time tables: 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6, 7

Year 4 : Solve the following equations:

3/4 of 40=             7/8 of 80 =           5/6 of 36 =

Convert the following Improper fraction to mixed fractions:

5/3 =  .   35/ 4 = . 17 / 6= .   31/ 9=

Order of Operations:

{18 - 7} + 20 - 8  +24 x 1 =

{ 20 + 30 + 14} +21 + 1 x 2 =

29 + 37 + { 24 + 3 + 37 } + 40 =

Learn your time tables.

What is an Angle ? Name the different angles with definition and draw them.

        

Homework Week 10

Dear Parents & Caregivers,

Upcoming events for Week 10: Te Tuhi Art Gallery visit on Monday. B2 will have an early Morning Tea and leave around 11 in the morning. 

Duffy Role Model Assembly on Tuesday at 1.30 in the Wharenui. Lunch will be early.

Whole School End of Term 3 Mass at St. Theresa Church at 11 a.m.

Solve the following equations: Place Value addition

345 + 456 =                    543 + 234 =

567 + 345 =                    765 + 123=

921 + 234 =                    765 + 254 =

24 x 6=              57 x 5=         43 x 5=

65 x 4 =             26 x 4 =          87 x 4 =

Year 4 Maths 

{ 9 + 43 - 4 } x 5 { 12 + 34} =

{16 + 7} x {9 - 3 }+ 10=

9 x { 4 x 10 -4 } + 5=

Learn your Time Tables.

  

Welldone B2

Hello parents & caregivers,

Thanks once again for your continued support. I feel very proud to be B2's teacher. Well done for an awesome Maori Liturgy B2! Bronson and Eli you have shown what Excellence means.

Upcoming events for the following weeks. This Monday is Whole School Photographs. Please to come to school in full uniform  looking smart. On Friday its Loud shirt day. Theme is Superheros. Next week on Monday B 2 will be visiting Te Tuhi  Art Gallery as a part of  learning  Pacific Art. Thanks to all the parents who have signed the permission forms and paid for the trip.

Spelling words: { each group will pick up words from their text that are tricky to  clarify  and find their meanings.}

Solve the following equations: { Year 3}

Add the following using place values

234 + 245=                 567 + 265=

457 + 678=                257 + 345 =

874 + 234=               987 + 234=

Multiply these: 25 X 5=             35 X 3=

Learn your times tables

Year 4 Maths:

Solve the following year 4:

{7x 4} + { 3x9} - {5x 6}+ { 7 +9} =

{ 9x 5} + { 7 x 5} + { 6 x 5}=

35 x 5=     312 x 4 =     265 x 5 =   121 x 5=

Write an explanation about "What qualities would you look for in your friend?"

                       

Terrific Tongan Language Week!

Greetings Parents & Caregivers,

What a Trilling Tongan Language Week it was for B 2 with all the Tantalizing learning. Thanks to my Tongan students who stood tall and proud to help us with Tongan Learning. B 2 students had to learn facts about Tonga and some common everyday words. It was challenging but everyone gave it a try.

"You never know you can do unless you have given it a try" {B2 slogan}

Well done to Sorona for accepting a challenge and executing it well. She along with Malia helped the girls learn a Tongan dance. Huge thanks to Una Filo Sorona's mum and Maria Fonua Shaylee's mum for the lovely Traditional attire for the dance. The girls looked stunning and so was their performance. Would like to congratulate Samiu for being  brave and performing along with the girls. Here are a few pics and a video of their performance.

Homework Spelling Words:

                                Pick up 10 words from your text clarify them. { Make sentences of own}

Solve the following equations: 

1/4 of 24=                  24 x 2=

1/3 of  30=                 12 x 4=

2/4 of 40=                  35 x 5=

4/5 of 45=                   42 x 4=

3/5 of 35=                    55 x 3=

252 + 125=                  26 x 2=               

543 + 435=

245+ 234=

Answer the following question.

Name different kinds of angles. Give definitions.

 

Tongan Language Week

Malo e lelei , 

This week is Tongan Language Week. All the learning will be integrated with Tongan Language Week. We will learn simple phrases to use in conservation with one another. As our Inquiry Topic is Taonga we will be learning about Tongan Art and Dances.

 

Huge Thanks !!

Hello Parents & Caregivers,

I would like to extend a huge thanks to all the parents who have helped B2 class for the Cultural Festival. 

Congratulations to my lovely students who practiced hard and performed well on the day. Couldn't take my eyes off while the boys performed. What a performance it was!! Very proud Teacher.

Spelling words:

Each group to learn the spelling words from their text.{Reading book}

Learn your Time Tables 

Retell about Father's day Celebration.

Look at our Father's Day Cards!!

Creative Students!!

Look at some of our students use the recycle material to make their musical instruments. For Guided Reading the Caterpillars & Ladybugs group read a text called "Starting with Strings". In the text the students design their own musical instruments as a part of their activity. 

So, I challenged them to make their own instruments with some help from their parents. Here are some of their instruments that they have designed.

                            Lauren's Guitar

                            Atiyanah's Guitar

                            Mila's Rock Guitar

                                Bronson's stylish Guitar

  Welldone! Lauren, Atiyanah, Mila, Bronson & Filli Rose for bringing in your musical instruments.

Home Work Week 5

 Hello Parents & caregivers,

Thanks to all the parents who have already helped in getting the Costume ready for our Cultural Festival. It would be helpful if everyone has the Costume ready by Monday.

As you know that Our School Cultural Festival in on Thursday the 30th of August.

Spelling words: Clarify them and make meaningful sentences. 

Butterflies                               Caterpillars & Ladybug

bacteria                                      leather

bilingual                                    ambush

symmetry                                   orphan

bicentenary                                 gracious

boutique                                       barbeque

turquoise                                      bruise

precision                                        severe

asteroid                                         courier

acquaintance                                dominoes

margarine                                    spaghetti

Snails 

window

money

place

ground

holidays

yesterday

friends

doing

start

Solve the following equations:

3/4 of 40=

 3 ÷ 18=

4 ÷   20=

2 ÷   18=

5 ÷   25=

3 ÷   15=

6 ÷   24=

Year 4 Maths:

9 ÷  81=

4 ÷  124=

3 ÷   79=

6 ÷   94=

Write a simple pattern using numbers{ 2, 6 ,10, 14, 18, 24}

Write an explanation about one of your Traditional Festivals.
Follow the Structure of an explanation Text.

Week 4 Home Work

Spelling words: Use them in your own sentences.

Butterflies      Caterpillars & Ladybugs     Snails

tremendous                 discount                    whole

souvenir                      scary                           watch

wrestling                    coarse                         having

quench                       orphan                       centre

twilight                     magnify                       afternoon

yoghurt                    luxury                          hello

octagonal                  disguise                       goodbye

obvious                    goggles                         parents

turquoise                  biology                        under

enthusiasm              silence                         over

Solve the following equations:

1/3 of 15=                  3/4 of 30=

1/4 of 20=                  4/5 of 25=

1/5 of 25=                   2/4 of 20=

2/4 of 20=                    3/4 of 40=

Year 4 Maths:Convert these Improper to proper fractions.

7/4,    8/6 , 15/ 7, 20/ 7, 13/ 7

What are Prime Numbers? give examples.

Learn your timetables please.

                         

 

Week 3 Homework

Greeting Parents & Caregivers,

Upcoming events for the week 4: 

As you know that 15th August is the Feast of Our Lady of Assumption and it is a day of Obligation. There will be a special liturgy in the Wharenui on  Tuesday the 14th because of the Teacher's Strike on the 15th.This coming Friday is "Cans for Christmas Mufti day". Theme for dress up is Bible Characters. Please send a can of food with your child as the cans are collected  for a special cause. Let's help the poor and needy in our Community with that little we can.

Spelling words: Clarify and use in your own sentences.

Butterflies    Caterpillars/ Ladybugs       Snails

palindrome            confession                  learn

generator                extension                   early

epidemic                 automatic                  fruit

Tundra region       submarine                  busy

trapezium              telescope                    build

crimson                  brochure                   eight

gesture                   parachute                 woman

census                      false                         heard

binary                     regular                     group

cathedral                motive                      circle

Please read your Duffy book and write your favourite part  in your text or  a  favourite character of your choice.

Learn your Times Tables of 3, 4, 5, 6.

  

St. Mary Mackillop Feast Day

Hello,

Tomorrow is the feast of our Patron Saint Mary Mackillop. There is a slight change with the venue for the Mass. The Feast day Mass will be at the school wharenui at 9.30. The girls performing the Liturgical Dance need to be dressed in their white dress. Please send their school uniforms along with them so they could change after.

Kindly send in a can of food for the poor and need people of our Community.

Week Two Home Work

Hello everyone,

It was such an hectic week but we got through. I'm sorry I had no time for the Spelling Test as we got busy getting ready for the Cultural Festival and the Liturgical Dance for the Feast day. I will be testing them on Monday. 

Spelling Words: Clarify and make meaningful sentences of your own.{ Remember no! I , me, my as your sentence starters.}

Butterflies     Caterpillars & Ladybugs    Snails

heptagon          courage                               presents

coincide            foreign                                  sometimes

negligent            luxury                                  pick

barbeque           avocado                               can't

bothersome        cereal                                  don't

vicious                 solution                             awhile

tranquil               exploit                               whole

bandicoot            python                               quiet

hemisphere           edible                              video

asteroid                course                              doesn't

Complete the Cloze activity:

The question that P------ face as they raise ch------ from in---- to adult are not easy to an----. Both fa---- and m----- can become concerned when health pr------- such as co-- arise any time after e---- stage to later life. Experts recommend that young ch------ should have plenty of s---- and nutritious food for healthy gr----.

Solve the following equations:

25 x 2=

1/2 of 30=

2/4 of 20=

4/5 of 30=  

15x 2=

20 x2 =

345 + 123=

Year 4 students please write two division problems and of your own choice and  solve them. 

Learn your Times tables please.