Galoop took Matthew and I back to the Air Force Museum, courtesy of the free tickets for the Mosquito simulator that Room 2 earned through their visit earlier in the year. 'Twas cool!
We also toured the other facilities and paid a quick visit to Chris, the Air Force Museum's Education Officer.
Just back from Tron Legacy. It was cool! Shades of the original Tron with not a little Star Wars thrown in - there's Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker and the Emperor. There's even the Millennium Falcon being chased by Tie Fighters. Plus way cool light cycles!
After lunch we struggled with some ICT. Specifically making a virtual card for...someone...in Comic Life. Seemed like such a good idea at the time...
I'll try to post the results thereof later.
Bye for now, and enjoy those portfolios,
Mr Grant
Oh yes, and I have decided to keep this blog live for next year for when ERO visit (!), so the address for the Room 2 Blog for next year is most likely to be 2011room2ola.blogspot.com. Or would you (not that any of you current parents will have children in Room 2 next year!) prefer room2ola2011.blogspot.com ?
I was putting away the Room 2 Readers' reading books, and it struck me that, as a collective, they have read quite a few.
(Taken by my cell phone - the camera was in the laptop bag...which I left at home! Three guesses what I'll be doing tomorrow then. I'll give you a hint. Starts with 'p' and rhymes with 'lanning'...)
And most of these books are just from these last couple of weeks!
For our last Maths lesson of the year we went outside to play robots and controllers, directing each other around a predetermined path.
We also had our last reading lesson for the year, and our last R.E. lesson, during which the children completed the Christmas wreaths that they started on Monday.
Tomorrow is our fun day. Please bring your togs and towel.
This morning kicked off with us lighting Mr Atherton's Christmas Wreath that I haven't got round to giving back to him yet (sorry Mr A!), before continuing with learning to give and follow direction and distance co-ordinates, first with one child of a pair giving their partner directions of how to trace a route through an easy maze onto this paper here, and then the pairs swapped roles to that the other pair directed the first member through another easy maze. Fast finishers then tried again, this time directing their parner through a harder maze the path through which they were to draw onto this paper here.
For reading Red Group read the perenial favourite by Joy Cowley Number One.
It's kind of a rite of passage for all Room 2 readers!
After lunch we had singing practice for our J Team Mass on Friday - which has just been cancelled! We will not be going to Mass on Friday as there will be a funeral happening - we went outside to play scatterball with Room 3.
I am happy to report that we completely trounced them! :-)
Oh yes, and at the end of the day each child was gifted Quaky Cat. It's a lovely wee book, and every Year 1 and 2 child in Canterbury has been given one. Cameron, I've got yours here, along with your class photo.
