Veggie Tale Wednesday

Good afternoon,

Today we had a pre test for the Sacrament strand of the R.E. curriculum. While some continued, the rest of the Room 2 Year 1 R.E. class came down on the mat and I put on the latest Room 2 Veggie Tale - Queen Esther, The Girl Who Became Queen...



...a bonus episode on the Lyle the Kindly Viking DVD. So, as the Year 2s came back from Room 3 we had a quick vote and, instead of handwriting, we watched the rest of the show!


Earlier in the day, shortly after fitness...



(notice how the Room 2 Reading class has grown?!)

...Blue Reading Group (all two of them!) presented their text You Can Carry It, Harriet.


We also had another session with the NetBooks for writing this morning, and, hopefully, may even have them again tomorrow. Perhaps.

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Jump'n Tuesday

Good afternoon,

This morning for Writing, we abandoned the pen for some ICT.



The point of this, and hopefully tomorrow's, writing lesson was to learn to create something in word, and save it to the server to work on it again later, without having to use a particular laptop - they're all connected to the server, so any laptop will do. This will become one of our regular independent writing routines once we've got a handle on the nuts and pieces of the procedure.

During reading, Red group again performed for us, this time...Roll Over.


White group also shared what they learnt from the book they had yesterday. How Room 1 Henderson Valley School performs a Massage Circle. Or at least they did, back in 1999.

First, they put their flat on the person in front of them and move them round and round in circles like big sun shapes.


Next, they dot their fingers up and down like rain. They start off softly and then get harder and harder, just like rain.


Their two favourite things are at the end. First they put their arms around the person in front of them, all lean forward and hug each other.


The second thing they do is lean back really slowly until they're lying on the person behind them.


And so they did.

After lunch, we had J Team Singing in Room 2 (where the heaters wouldn't switch off and it got to 27.9 degrees inside!).





Stink, we're really packing them in in the J Team this year! And we've still got two terms to go!

Then on to skipping...


And that was that.

CU tomorrow,

Mr Grant

Monday Madness

Good afternoon,

Room 2's never looked so busy before school! So busy in fact, I got Angus and Jack to document it for us all...


Then it was off to a Values Assembly, where we learnt about Persevering to be a Live Long Learner.



...and then back to the room for our first official class photos.



[The new] Red Reading shared their play with us later in the morning. Don't forget Grandma.


At the end of the day we started our Science unit - NZ Weather.

Our first learning intention is WALT Identify God Made Things in the Sky. To that end, we went outside to see what we could see...


...before coming back inside to list what we thought the clouds were made of.



All in all, a good time was had by all. Even if their teacher has got aching ribs from slamming into a pole at paint ball!

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Newsletter for Term 3, Week 1

Good afternoon,

Here is the newsletter for Term 3, Week 1. Please note that P.E. day is back to Tuesdays, not Thursday.

CU tomorrow,

Mr Grant

Galoop Goes Paintballing

Good afternoon,

Galoop is just back from shooting up the boys (Matthew, Andrew, Jacob, Luke, Mr Atherton and Mr Grant) at Top Gun Indoor Paint Ball. He had a lot of fun. Especially sharp shooting Matthew!

Fabulous Friday

Good afternoon,

Today kicked off way early! It was good to see so many of you supporting the PTA this morning. The children looked wonderful, and the Jump Jam was pretty cool!



After roll call...


...we were back outside for the Fashion Parade...




Later in the morning we had our first play on the new pod of net books. Using their inbuilt web cams, the children took a photo of themselves, saved it to the local drive, inserted into a Comic Life page, to which they added speech bubbles and a nice background colour which was all saved onto the network. Well done guys!

Comic Life can export these files as HTML pages, I'll just have to grab one of the net books so's I can glue them all together into one file and export it onto the web. Not tonight though!

Your children have worked very hard this term, so enjoy a well earned break.

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Surprisingly Sunny Thursday

Good afternoon,

Room 2's weather station is telling me it's 18.9 degrees outside (and 19 degrees in here). Ah, but it's nice to see the sun again, even if it is but for a while. Looks like it'll be cloudy tomorrow...

But I digress.

This morning's maths was our last shape exploration for the term. The children created their own abstract-ish art.




Have a look in their maths books for the evidence thereof.

After morning tea Blue Group recorded their book That's Really Weird, which has just been added to our Listening Post Page

And after lunch we had a visit from a fire crew...








...before a sing a long and finishing with some games outside.

And a good time was had by all.

Don't forget to bring along your cup for the hot Milos in the morning, and your gold coin for the sausage sizzle. If you've yet to bring along a coin for mufti day (Heroes and Villains) then please keep that separate from the sausage money. One amount is going to Samoa, one is going to the PTA to bye extra bits and pieces for OLA.

Thanks,

Mr Grant