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Term 4 for Syndicate 4 promises to be a very busy one ....
= CAMP - yes, our camp at Camp Narrows (near Mystery Creek) with Room 18 will be on December 8th-9th.= == As was outlined in the notice sent home in the last week of term 3, on the first day of camp we will leave TAPS at 9.30am and have a day filled with fun activities at The Narrrows camp, including swimming, a water slide, archery, BMX, trolley racing and a four way tug of war. We will have a concert at night followed by a game of glow tag (night time orienteering) On the second day we will be getting up and leaving for Hamilton where we will spend the day doing high ropes, rock climbing and Bell Boat activities. We will return to TAPS at approximately 2.45pm. ==

INQUIRY - Our big question for inquiry this term is "How on Earth Can We Change Our Way of Living".
==We will focus on healthy lifestyle choices - in particular, healthy eating and physical activity. We will be linking this with Serving Others as we work with other classes in the school to encourage them to think about their eating and physical activity habits and to teach them some Run, Jump, Throw games. This will also lead in nicely to our term 4 Athletics Day and Interschool Athletics.==

== GARAGE SALE - Room 15 will also be working with Rooms 13 and 18 to have a big Garage Sale to raise money for Maungatautari Ecological Trust to help them with their breeding and pest eradication programmes. We have decided to do this as a follow-up to our Term 2 Inquiry sustainability focus and we plan to reduce/reuse and recycle to raise money for Maungatautari by holding a garage sale to sell secondhand items. Any suitable donated items will be much appreciated and accepted in Room 15 prior to the garage sale in week 4. ==

== LITERACY - We will start the term with some inferencing practice while we read some Fantasy/Sci Fi type stories to help us with our narrative writing. We will then move to reading non-fiction materials. ==

== NUMERACY - We will continue to cross group for maths for the first 6 weeks of term as we work through the multiplication and division strand. We will finish off the year with Geometry back in our own classes.==

YEAR 6 GRADUATION - Term 4 also starts us thinking about our year 6's who will be leaving us soon, details of the Year 6 Graduation to come.
=//__** So, all in all a very busy term, watch this space as we continue our learning journey in Room 15 and update you as we go. **__//= = =