The end is nearing......

This term (and whole year, in fact) is racing on, and there are only 13 and a half days left at school this year!!! WOW it has certainly gone fast! So a couple of 'housekeeping' things to note.......

• This week (30 Nov - 4 Dec) is the final week for Parent help. Thank you all VERY much for your continued help and support over the year - it has been greatly appreciated. I do hope all those of you that have helped in any way this year (classroom help, photocopying, class trips, sausage sizzles etc etc etc) will be able to come along for the official 'Thank you' morning tea on Tuesday 8th Dec @ 10:25am in the Hall foyer.
• We are very busily rehearsing for our Junior Christmas concert - please mark Thursday 10th Dec in your diaries, starting 9:30am in the Hall.
• Our Final School Assembly is on Tuesday 15th Dec in the Hall, starting at 9:30am. All are welcome to attend.
• REPORTS come home also on Tuesday 15th Dec with your child, sharing your child's successes for the year and areas for future development next year. The report also has your child's 2010 class and teacher on it.
• School finishes at 12:30pm on Thursday 17th Dec!
  

First = to 175!

Big congratulations to Brooklyn and Samuel for reaching 175 nights of home reading -
what a huge achievement!

And congratulations also to J and Angela for achieving 150 nights! Well done.

So proud of you!

Six famous faces...Avan and Tatenda for School assembly certificates for reading skills... Jin's first reader certificate for 25 nights...Ti'a's 75 nights award...and 2 boys reach 150!!!!! Well done to you all, and keep up the fantastic work, I'm proud of you all.

IT'S TODAY

It's today!!...Our Twilight Fair starts at 4 pm today.

An enormous amount of work has gone into making this event a success - I hope you can come along and support it...and bring your family, friends, neighbours, colleagues, cousins, associates............

Shadows

On Friday it was (finally) sunny enough to get outside and see our shadows. We talked about what made the shadow, and agree that is is our body stopping the light from the sun.
We went outside and chalked around our shadows with a buddy. You'll never guess what happened...????

They moved!!!!!

Our shadows moved around to our left and got smaller through the day!
They were a bit bigger by the end of the afternoon, but were round behind us!

As well as finding they moved, we noticed that we could feel the sun on different places on our bodies at different times...first our back, then our neck, then the top of our heads, and the last time we went out it was shining in our faces! We think that maybe the sun is moving across the sky during the day. We'll have to find out if this is true?!

Super stars of Learning

Congratulations to all of these wonderful learners! Well done, I am proud of you all.