I decided last night that I really needed another CRT day today to get through all the report bits and pieces (and I'm glad I was able to take it, let me tell you!).
Thankfully, Mrs O'Neill was able to step up to the plate and take over. And a wonderful job she did too!
After a bit of writing...
...it was off on the bus...
...to the pool.
Back to school for some reading and maths after lunch, estimating and measuring area...
...a bit more Inquiry and the children were done for the day.
Thanks Coleen for jumping in so readily.
Tomorrow is Library day, so please remember to return your library books.
CU tomorrow,
Mr Grant
Oh yeah, and boys, don't forget about drinks at the Old Vicarage tomorrow evening, 'bout 7 ish.
What a glorious day. I wonder what temperature it did get up to...100 points to the first person to tell me!
Another rather frantic day was had here today.
Bit of writing...
...and the rest. Red Reading Group didn't read with me this morning as I finished up the last of this round of running records. The next round will begin on Monday!
This afternoon we thought of, wrote and chose the best three questions that we want to answer about our chosen Commonwealth inquiry.
We will begin finding answers to them on Monday.
Speaking of Monday, I won't actually be in the room as I am taking another CRT day to write reports 'n stuff...
We discussed the values that Mary and Joseph would have taught Jesus when he was a boy...
(that the board was supposed to capture, but didn't. Just as well I took a photo of it then. 'Till I get it figured out, I'm better to stick to the Windows Tablet Edition Snipping Tool...)
...and then acted some of them out.
For our Commonwealth Inquiry, I introduced the task that they are now going to be spending their time on...
...and briefly introduced the format that they will be presenting their information. But not for a while yet, they've got to find the information first!
Good evening. Or I should say, good night. Sorry for the delay in today's update, I rushed off to a meeting about what can be done with our IWB (it's pretty cool), and then I came home...and fell asleep on the couch!
But I digress.
This fine day, and it was indeed a lovely day, we did our usual stuff. Bit of maths (I'm really enjoying maths at the moment), bit of writing - Fairy Tales...
We are learning to write fairy tales.
A fairy tale has an Orientation with a Goody and a Baddie, and what they were doing, a Problem, some Action, a Resolution with "And they all lived happily after", and then a Title.
as well as a bit of reading, some fitness...
...some R.E. where the children blessed each other with the blessing that they took home this afternoon.
In this newsletter I make reference to the children writing about their earthquake experiences. If you would like to read them, please click here. I tried to link them directly from the newsletter itself, but, for some reason, I couldn't.
Another rather busy day was had here in Room 2 today, so much so that I almost forgot to take any photos! Almost...
The R2 writers had their Persuasive Writing Assessment this morning. They did jolly well, too.
We also continued our Animals inquiry (such as it is - having that week off has really knobled the already short amount of time that we had for it!) where the children worked on their big questions that they would like to find out about their chosen animal next week.
To that end, you could really help at home. Discuss what their big questions are with your children, and then help them find some information that will help them answer the question. Please keep it pretty simple - there's not a lot of point in coming to school with reams and reams of information for them to sort through!
Tomorrow, of course, we have our J Team Mass. It kicks off at 11:15. It would be lovely to see you there.
This afternoon, as part of our Church/Belonging R.E. unit, the Year 1s went over to OLA church to identify various bits and pieces.
(And at the same time, the rest of the school piled out in response to an aftershock! Mr A had to come to look for us!)
We then came back to look at the digital resource we use to teach R.E., and low and behold, we found this...
Which caused a bit of confusion, as I thought you crossed your body left to right when saying "and the Holy Spirit. Amen" (ending on your right shoulder). And it turns out, I was right. According to those in the know, it should be like this...
So I was wrong when I told the children that I was wrong! Sorry for the confusion!
Earlier in the day the R2 Jump Jam Team selected the jump jam they would like to jump jam to - The Coconut Song.
Now to start to polish the routine.
Bye for now,
Mr Grant
Oh, and one more thing. Tomorrow the Room 2 Writers (and Rooms 11 and 1 as well) will be doing a summative persuasive writing sample. That is, we're doing an argument writing test! They had their last chance to practice in class this morning, but do feel free to practice one last piece at home tonight. Remember, an argument has...
Things ticked along much as they often do today, so much so that I kinda forgot to take any photos! However...
This morning the Room 2 Writers were writing arguments about Interactive White Boards.
I was working with one Green Writing Group, Felicity was working with Blue Group, while Red Group had the choice of writing their arguments on the classroom computers (I really have to get those Macs talking to the server...) or writing on the white boards. And so, without any further review, here's some old school about new school...
As for tomorrow, well, I expect it'll be a little more of the same.
