Last Day Thursday

Good evening,

And that was the 2010 school year!

We started today with our Leavers' Mass, then, after an extended morning tea, we went outside for a litter patrol.




Then 'twas time for a quick Christmas message and a quick game of Rob the Nest.



The day ended with a bit of Muscle Bob Buff Pants.

Thank you for a fantastic year, have a happy and safe Christmas break and God bless you.

Mr Grant

Taniwha Friday

Good afternoon,

Ah, but summer's on it's way. Horrah!

But I digress. Today Room 2 did a spot of fitness...


...a touch of Topic (yay, we've managed to squeeze out a bit more time to finish our inquiry proper next week, and possibly the week after) where we discussed how to find information on the web...



...before using the 'net to find information from this page here to answer questions on this sheet here. It was really nice to see the children helping each other.





Then it was onto the whole point of this post. We did a spot of Maori and then drew our own Taniwha. I think the children did a much better job than I did!







I'd like to get them hung up in the weekend...we'll see how it goes. I can only come in on Saturday, as Sunday I've got a wee wargaming event. I'm quite keen to try out my dragons!

Have a good weekend,

Mr Grant

Hot Day Tuesday

Good afternoon,

It is glorious outside. Currently a balmy 28 degrees. 'Twas a lovely day for some outside activities.

First up was some fitness...




...then a play, again, outside...


...and ending the day with some cricket. Outside. Funnily enough.


We did so some stuff inside. Phonics...


...and singing. But at least the doors were open.



Don't forget that tomorrow is library day.

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

A Rather Wet Friday

Good evening,

This morning the J Team the Room 2 Jump Jam team led the J Team in the Coconut Song...again...




...before a bit more ICT. Some even managed to get their Comic Life fairy tales finished. I think. I'll just go through them to double check.


Have a good weekend.

Mr Grant

Late Post Thursday

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.


Tomorrow is...but 11 hours, 45 minutes away!

CU in the morning,

Mr Grant

Tomorrow's Photo and Library Day

Good afternoon,

We continued our usual Tuesday routines - a bit of fitness...



...a bit of singing...






...before some more ball skills at the end of the day.


As mentioned in the title of this post, tomorrow is school photos day, as well as our Room 2 library day. Please bring your best smiles, and your library books.

(And send your children to school in their full uniform, as we don't know when we'll have our photos taken)

Thanks,

Mr Grant

Room 2 Jump Jam Jam...

...the 'official' video, from the night.


Mr Grant

The Thursday After...

Good afternoon,

I had a lot more children in the room today than I was expecting. In fact, everyone turned up - I was thinking half would be sleeping in after last night's efforts!

Still, it was nice to see them...

This morning, after writing...



...Room 2 Readers Ran Relays.


Then after lunch, and a Mass practice for Sunday, we compared maps of the British Empire, and the British Commonwealth.




As for tomorrow, I'll be hear, but I won't be. Mrs O'Neil will be looking after the show while I take running record...after running record...after running record...

CU in the morning,

Mr Grant

Oh yes, and please have a look at last night's Room 2 Jump Jam Team performance.

Jump Jam Extravaganza

Well, wasn't last night brilliant?!

Well done Room 2 Jump Jam Team, you were great!




And lets face it, so was Room 3. And Room 1. Aw heck, they were all fantastic!




Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Jump Jam Thursday

Good afternoon,

This morning instead of our fitness station rotations, we went into the Hall for some Jump Jam practice, primarily for Rooms 1, 2 and 3's Jump Jam Teams.



Just got some polishing to do there before the big evening next week.

As a reminder...


This afternoon R2 R.E. began discussing why Mary was chosen by God...


...and we very briefly talked about the Commonwealth, and what it was.


We will be using this link here next week to further our understanding.

I hope you enjoyed seeing your children's art work in the hall this afternoon. The art work will still be on display in the morning, but will be taken down so's R2 can host assembly tomorrow afternoon.

CU there,

Mr Grant

Oh yes, I've been given the hard word to give the children the hard word about looking after their own stuff and keeping the room tidy. So we may be leaving the room a little later each day while we get the room in a fit state for the following day.

Wednesday's Wrelays

Good evening,

This morning the Room 2 Readers moved onto the fourth activity in our new fitness rotation - relays.


We also finally wrapped up our Art Attack Week with a wee survey of if the children enjoyed doing art all day, all week...


...and whether they enjoyed having different teachers each day!


Oh, and speaking of Art, earlier in the week the children chose the piece of their art that they were the most proud of and they will be on display for all to see from tomorrow morning.

Do pop along for a looksee.

Mr Grant

Tuesday's Shakeup

Good afternoon,

Well, that was interesting. We had a bit of a shake at 11:32, but all is well. No damage, though the shelves in the back room fell down. Again.

Right after that, we popped outside for another fitness rotation. This time the Room 2 Readers were jumping rope...


Following that, White Reading Group shared today's book with us Countdown.


We were outside because I thought they could do with a little more room than they could get in the room. I hope the wind blowing on the microphone is not too distracting.

After lunch and a bit of singing (I really must learn another way of playing Eb - barring it and then moving down to F is too cumbersome...suffice it to say, we sang our school values song acapella!) we hopped outside for some small ball skills. (Sorry about the delay at the end of the day caused by getting them back inside so late!)



The children will have received some Scholastic book order forms. Those who are interested need to have their orders back at school by Friday the 29th of October.

CU tomorrow,

Mr Grant