Week 6:
Time is flying as we approach the end of Term 1. However there is no time to slow down as we still have heaps to do!!
Otago Early Settlers Museum Trip:
It was a great day out visiting both the Milford Art Gallery and the Museum. We learnt alot about early Dunedin and how both early Maori and Scottish settlers viewed this region. We dressed up as early settlers on the Philip Laing - one of the first boats to Dunedin. We role played how we would have travelled to Dunedin and explored some of the hard ships faced by those early settlers. We are using some of this knowledge and experience to help with this weeks homework. I am looking forward to reading your application letters to the New Zealand Company! Remember these are to be displayed so put time into publishing and presenting.

This week we have started a Reading Log incentive chart. We will record the chapter books read both here at school and at home. Once certain goals are reached then stickers will be earnt. Once 4 stickers are reached then there is a reward of 15 minutes FREE TIME!
This will help build up reading mileage but it will also be very cool if we can share the cool books we are reading.

This week we started learning to play the marimba for music. A great start.

Next week we will start into our Inquiry for the rest of the term. Our big question is: HOW ARE WE SHAPED BY OUR PAST? We will look at forming questions around this big question and investigate to find answers. We will also be using interviewing as one form of research.

Next week:

• Swimming on Tuesday 16 March from 9.30 - 10.00
• Parent Interviews - Tuesday and Wednesday
• Swimming Sports - Friday 19 March ( a notice has come home about this)

Here are some photos from our Musuem trip last week: