Fun Day Wednesday

Good afternoon,

We've had a bit of a busy day here today.

A few more maths activities...






...and some writing...




...the sharing of which I have taped...




Then, after morning tea, and a bit of singing practice, we went over to Room 8 to share a couple of songs.


After lunch we had a special assembly to honour Vicki's birthday. She was such a good sport about it all!










And a good time was had by all.

Pity about the picnic, but we can't help the weather!

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Tuesday Spongepants

Good afternoon,

After a bit of maths this morning...




...the J Team piled into Room 2...




...for a bit of Sponge Bob Squarepants!


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 ?

Water Safety Friday

Good afternoon,

This morning ended our two weeks of swimming instruction with a bit of water safety in boats and life jackets.






...before finishing up our inquiry...



...and watching Charlotte's Web with Room 11.




And that was the end of a very busy week. Well, a very energy expending week anyway.

Back to the normal programme next week...except for Thursday, our J Team Fun Day. Start praying for fair weather now, Mrs Johnson is organizing a water slide for the day!

Have a great weekend,

Mr Grant

Man, our new fibre internet connection makes uploading these images and clips much quicker!

Ranfurly Thursday

Good afternoon.

At the end of this day we had a visitor...



...the Ranfurly Shield!

Prior to that the children had their last learn-to-swim instructional lesson at Kings Pool. Tomorrow is all about water safety. Remember - no goggles!







We also managed to fit in some maths...


...and inquiry.


Thanks ladies, and gentleman, for helping out this afternoon. Last inquiry session will be tomorrow morning. Any further assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Oh yes, and the message that I sent out about the Room 2 picnic should have read that it's on Wednesday of Week 10, not next week. Sorry.

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Last Minute CRT Tuesday

Oh, but Rattie does like his Rashuns!

But I digress.

Good afternoon,

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.

Another Monday...Again...

Good evening,

More swimming...


...more singing (though this was reading - honest!)...


...and a touch of maths.


Hey, finding the area of something is just like using arrays!

Bit more of the same tomorrow. Literally - tomorrow's timetable is just like todays!

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