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

Fun Day Friday

Good afternoon,

We had a rather laid back day here today.

A bit of R.E., where we looked at Jesus' birth...






...and then, well, another Christmas craft, an assembly, and some free time, during which some took the opportunity to, well, sing!


And that was our last Friday together.

Bye, and have a good weekend,

Mr Grant

Counting The Beat Wednesday

Good afternoon,

As if the children aren't expending enough energy during the day, we ended today with a bit of Kiwiana...


100 points to the children who can tell me who sung it originally.

Prior to that we sang...


...and swam...


...and read.



By for now,

(Another 100 points for those who can tell me what's wrong with that...)

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

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

Thursday Theology

Good afternoon,

I am very pleased to say that the children aced their Sacrament assessment this afternoon.

Earlier in the day we had a bit of Jump Jam...



...then a touch of reading...


After lunch we had our aforementioned Sacrament post test, and then a Weather assessment.
(Sorry about the quality - I used a different algorithm to compress this clip, and, well, the results are not as flash as I was hoping.)

Then on to a discussion about what we're going to do for assembly tomorrow. The children came up with some lovely prayers that Cameron, Maddison, Molly and Samuel will recite tomorrow at assembly...

Prayers together: Ki te Ingoa, o te Matua, me te Tamaite, me te Wairua Tapu. Amene

Cameron: Thank you God for school. Holy Spirit please help us to work hard. Lord hear us.

Maddison: Thank you God for us being kind and caring at our Catholic school. Lord hear us.

Molly: Thank you God for taking away the sins of the whole world. Lord hear us.

Samuel: Thank you God for the Holy Spirit. Please help us to be more like Jesus. Lord hear us.

Prayers together: Ke te ingwa. O te Matua, me te Te Mite, me to Waru Tapu. Amene.

We will also be sharing this song with the rest of the school...


...as well as a bit of Maori language - we will be doing a shorter version of this text here.

CU in the morning, and then, possibly, again at 1:30.

Mr Grant

Throwing Tuesday

Good afternoon,

'Twas quite pleasant at the two ends of the day today. Good for some outdoor activities. First some skipping...


...then some discuss.



At the end of which I had Room 2 line up against the wall so that Room 3 might have some additional incentives for their shot put throws! (And no, not the hard shot puts, but rather soft rubber balls!)


Inbetween these times, Red Reading Group performed an appropriate follow up activity for this morning's reading text Wobbly Tooth.


(Sorry for the quality, I had to compress the file - it was just too big!)

Have a good evening,

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