Welcome to Room 2 , 2013

Newsletter for Room 2 Term 1 2013

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome to the 2013 school year. The children are looking keen and ready to go and they are very happy to see each other again.

 We would like to welcome 3 new pupils and their families. They are   Noella, Melania and Eliza. We hope you enjoy being part of the St Anne’s family.  Some children are still overseas but when they return I will put up photos of our class on our blog. www.stannes102.blogspot.com

The focus for this term is Energy. We will be discovering   energy at work through different curriculum areas. In Science we will be mixing and melting materials and in Health and PE we will look at good foods and keeping active. We will also relate this theme to the Arts, especially Dance.

We are starting the year by building an understanding of our friendship with Jesus and developing a prayerful relationship with Him. We will also be following the season of Lent and Easter and we will explore the Caritas Lenten unit.

Our English genre for the term is Descriptions. This lends itself to building a rich vocabulary. Please take every opportunity to use descriptive language with your child.

Room 1 and 2 hope to take advantage of the beautiful weather we have been having and use the expertise of the Art Gallery staff by a visit to the Botanic Gardens on the 27^th February. We will be involved in a 90 minute lesson on Watercolour painting. We will leave school at 10am and return by 3 o’clock.  This incurs a cost of $5 per child for the bus and the lesson.

Thank you for ensuring that your child has all the equipment needed to get off to a good start. Please make sure that the reading folder is returned to school every morning and that the poetry and library books are returned by Friday. Please encourage your child to be responsible for this. It is all part of being a good learner.

I am looking forward teaching such a delightful class.  Please feel free to come and chat or to visit the classroom before or after school to see your child’s work.

Thank you for all your support.

Marian Jones