What a lot of books!

Good evening,

I was putting away the Room 2 Readers' reading books, and it struck me that, as a collective, they have read quite a few.





(Taken by my cell phone - the camera was in the laptop bag...which I left at home! Three guesses what I'll be doing tomorrow then. I'll give you a hint. Starts with 'p' and rhymes with 'lanning'...)

And most of these books are just from these last couple of weeks!

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

J Team Fun Day 2010

Good afternoon,

And a lovely afternoon it has been.

We had a great day...though I was only able to take photos of the parachute station...


And that was the day.

Bye,

Mr Grant

Oh, and sorry about this morning's email. I got a little confused...

Last Day Wednesday

Good afternoon,

Today was the day of lasts. Well, sort of.

For our last Maths lesson of the year we went outside to play robots and controllers, directing each other around a predetermined path.


We also had our last reading lesson for the year, and our last R.E. lesson, during which the children completed the Christmas wreaths that they started on Monday.



Tomorrow is our fun day. Please bring your togs and towel.

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Quaky Cat Tuesday

Good afternoon,

This morning kicked off with us lighting Mr Atherton's Christmas Wreath that I haven't got round to giving back to him yet (sorry Mr A!), before continuing with learning to give and follow direction and distance co-ordinates, first with one child of a pair giving their partner directions of how to trace a route through an easy maze onto this paper here, and then the pairs swapped roles to that the other pair directed the first member through another easy maze. Fast finishers then tried again, this time directing their parner through a harder maze the path through which they were to draw onto this paper here.



For reading Red Group read the perenial favourite by Joy Cowley Number One.


It's kind of a rite of passage for all Room 2 readers!

After lunch we had singing practice for our J Team Mass on Friday - which has just been cancelled! We will not be going to Mass on Friday as there will be a funeral happening - we went outside to play scatterball with Room 3.




I am happy to report that we completely trounced them! :-)

Oh yes, and at the end of the day each child was gifted Quaky Cat. It's a lovely wee book, and every Year 1 and 2 child in Canterbury has been given one. Cameron, I've got yours here, along with your class photo.

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Good afternoon,

Welcome to Week 9. Today we started a new maths unit all about giving and following positional directions. So the Room 2 Mathematicians took turns being a robot or a robot director.




"Face north, take 5 steps south..."

After lunch we discussed the meanings behind the Advent Wreath...


...before making Christmas cards...



And that was our day.

Oh, by the way, I have just learnt that portfolios go out tomorrow week - like, Tuesday next week. Argghh!

Mr Grant

Newsletter for Term 4, Week 9

Good afternoon,

Here is the Room 2 Newsletter for Term 4, Week 8. Last full week of the year...

Mr Grant