Term 3 week 8

 Week 8

Thanks to everyone who helped make the Gala such a success. It was

so wonderful to see so many of you there supporting St. Mary’s School and bringing our community together.

Good luck to our students in Kakano who will be heading off to the Mount to play Golf. Have fun and all the best.

Here’s what’s happening this week:

We are swimming all week!!

Monday

swimming

Tuesday

• Kakano 2 library

• swimming

Wednesday

• Kakano 1 library

• swimming

• Rice Day

Message from Bernie Hall DRS

Each year as a Caritas fundraiser, and to raise awareness of those who survive on a bowl of rice a day,

St Mary’s School will participate in the Rice Day Challenge. Your child will be provided with rice for lunch.

They are to bring a bowl/cup and spoon/fork and a coin donation. 

All students are expected to participate. It is a good thing to allow your child to experience what having

limited choices feels like and plain food tastes like. So please, unless your child has specific dietary

requirements do not buy or provide a school lunch on this day.

Thursday 

• Kakano 3 Library

• Annunciation Liturgy 10:15a.m.

• swimming

Friday

BOP Golf Tournament 9-2:30 Mount Maunganui

Swimming

Sausage sizzle

Number Agents-solve the problem

 Today our Number Agents(Kakano 1) had a bit of a tricky situation to sort out. The Wacky Witch had cast a spell on the 3rd Little pig and they had to try and help him. 

She said that In order to break the spell they had to find a number.

They had to count in 2’s and have 1 number left over.

They had to count in 3’s and have 1 number left over.

They had to count in 5’s and have no numbers left over.

This certainly got lots of counting going on in Kakano 1.

Can you solve the problem?

Term 2 Week 7

 Week 7

It’s GALA WEEK! Thank you for getting in behind this exciting event. Money earned at Gala will go towards making our fenced play area a little more welcoming - we are so excited.  As Friday is going to be hectic enough, there will be NO sausage sizzle. 

It is Saint Patrick's day on Wednesday and it is Saint Joseph’s day on Friday.  It was the Sisters of Saint Joseph who started our school.  This makes Saint Joseph a very special saint for our school so we will be celebrating.  Kakano 1, 2 and 3 will be leading the mass on Friday morning and you are most welcome to join us. 

Here’s what’s happening this week:

Monday

Gala Collection: Nacho day and homewares (Corn chips, blankets, etc)

Tuesday

• Kakano 2 library. 

Gala Collection: Grocery day (anything in a packet or boxes)

Wednesday

• Kakano 1 library

Gala Collection: White elephant day (toys, books, sports gear, homeware…)

Thursday 

• Kakano 3 Library

Gala Collection: Mystery jar day (fill a jar with anything you want - small toys, lollies, bubbles, slime, …)  Fresh fruit and veges are also being collected today.

Friday

• GALA DAY 4-7pm

• 9am St Joseph's Day mass - led by Kakano 1, 2, 3

Gala Collection: homemade cakes, biscuits, fudge, and fresh produce.

Coming up:

24 March

• Rice Day

25th March

• Annunciation of the Lord Mass

30th March

• Palm ‘Sunday’ Donkey parade

1 April

• Washing of the feet liturgy

Writing a Haiku

 This week we worked in groups to create a Haiku. A Haiku is a short form poetry originally from Japan. It is made up of 3 lines, totalling 17 syllables. The first line is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 syllables and the third line is 5 syllables.

 

Firstly we did a quick recap as a class about syllables. We did this by going through each person’s name and seeing how many syllables there were for everyone.

 

Next we worked on what things are green- connected to our green zones.

 

Then we tried a Haiku together. 

Finally the children created their own Haikus in their group and with a teensy bit of tweaking they were just amazing. I was blown away at their first attempts.

House of sticks

 This week for our provocations the children were making a house of sticks for the 3 little pigs. There were lots of pieces of wood and the children thought about how they were going to create a living space for one of the pigs. There was lots of discussion and consultations about what to do. They came up with a teepee style house. They used pieces of wood, making a triangular shape and lots of tape. As they went along they added pieces of wood and kept on taping it together. They figured out that someone needed to be able to sit inside-they all needed a turn at this stage obviously!  Finally they found lots of material to decorate it with. It looked fabulous. Let’s see how long it lasts. Tomorrow we will use a hairdryer to blow the house down just like the Big Bad Wolf!