Final Day Thursday

Good evening,

Well, if that was the school year for 2013, we've gone and done it!

Thank you for all of your support for the children and myself through the year. They've been a great class.

On to today.

Not much to report really.

We sang Happy Birthday to Mr Shea, we played some Maths games...






...we had a lovely end of year Mass, tidied up, said good bye, and that was the end of that.

Have a blessed and safe Christmas and New Year, and...see you next year.

Oh, and please remember that a full run down of this year is available on line at room2ola2013.blogspot.com. (As indeed is last year's blog - room2ola2012.blogspot.com...and next year's too - room2ola2014.blogspot.com - though there's nothing there yet!)

Thank you and good night,

Mr Grant

J Team Fun Day

Good afternoon,

Well, the children had a blast this morning. First with the dry activities...








...then with the not so dry!









And a good time was had by all!

Mr Grant

Sticky Tuesday

Good afternoon,

'Twas a bit of a sticky old day at school today. Like, "what are we going to do now?" kind of sticky, due to the rain and the planned walk down to Cashmere High School for Prize Giving practice this morning. In the end, Room 2 was split 4 ways so that I could go down to help set out the chairs - while Room 12 (and a quarter of Room 2) cleaned up Room 2! Thanks Miss Fitzsimmons!

Whole school and singing practice, then Kapa Haka after morning tea, with a nice relaxing afternoon playing Robo Rally Snakes and Ladders, (well by me and a few others - Liam won the first game, Mya the second) after lunch.

And then these.











Room 7's stick figure nativity stories (one on the iPad, two live, so to speak).

Room 2 were even able to correct an historical inaccuracy in one of them!

And a good time was had by all.

This evening - please be at the Cashmere High School Auditorium...


...by ten to 6 (5:50 p.m.), either in full [summer] school uniform, or Kapa Haka uniform as appropriate. Starts at 6:30, running time aprox. an hour.

As for tomorrow, please read the notice that went out this afternoon. To most.

J Team Fun Day

16^th December

This Wednesday is our J Team Fun Day. The children will be participating in a variety of activities and games.

Your child is to wear their sports uniform and bring along the following things:

• a scooter or bike
• a named water pistol if you have one
• a change of clothes for changing into after water games

If it is wet we will have indoor activities planned so you will not need to send along a scooter/bike or water pistol.

Kind regards,

J Team Teachers

See you tonight, and again tomorrow, armed to the teeth. Pray for fine weather!

Mr Grant

Robo Rally Monday

Good evening,

After a bit of fuss and bother with computer hardware I finally got a bunch of Robo Rally cards (see our Numeracy page, under resources for your own copy if you want to play at home) printed out as the morning began so that we could go outside to play Robo Rally Snakes and Ladders.


Kinda worked better when just a few of us were playing it inside.



And, as this was TRUMP time...






...some got quite creative!

And a good time was had by all.

J Team Fun Day

16^th December

This Wednesday is our J Team Fun Day. The children will be participating in a variety of activities and games.

Your child is to wear their sports uniform and bring along the following things:

• a scooter or bike
• a named water pistol if you have one
• a change of clothes for changing into after water games

If it is wet we will have indoor activities planned so you will not need to send along a scooter/bike or water pistol.

Kind regards,

J Team Teachers

Sticky Friday

Good evening,

And it was a rather sticky day at school today, in more ways than one - a long assembly in the afternoon heat gives rise to a rather large number of sticky individuals!

Speaking of Sticky...



Jemma found him this morning at home on their bread maker, so, she brought him to school!

He seemed to enjoy himself.

Speaking of enjoying oneself...



...I picked these up on the way home from work this afternoon!

Thanks again for your generous gifts, I've been wanting these games for ages!

Have a great weekend,

Mr Grant

Abby	“I liked the Christmas carols with Aunty Col and I liked making the hands and making the card for Mrs Earl and I liked making those Christmas trees. I liked playing and I liked Maths and I liked those shapes and I also liked umm skipping and Fitness and R.E. and Rachel and I liked Jump Jam and I liked the Advent [wreath] and I liked seeing the [stick insect]. And I liked dancing and getting Assembly Positive Playground and I liked having a good teacher and playing on the monkey bars and playing families.”
Bailey	“Art and the library.”
Charlie	“Umm, I liked maths and nothing else.”
Connor	“Umm, doing reading.”
Gabrielle	“I liked umm, the Christmas craft and I liked the thing where you performed. It was fun.”
George	[absent]
Harlan	“I liked P.E. and everything.”
Isabella	“I liked doing Christmas Art and I liked Sticky [the stick insect].”
Jack	“Writing, playing with my friends and seeing that insect.”
Jacob	“Everything.”
Jemma	“I liked umm bringing that stick insect to school. And I liked doing Art and I liked making the Christmas trees and I liked umm, making the cubes and the umm triangles and cuboids and I liked having the afternoon tea with the parents and I liked umm playing in the playground with my friends and I liked learning with you and I liked you being my teacher.
Josh	“Umm, I liked doing Maths and getting Galoop.”
Liam	“I liked everything.”
Lily	“I liked everything and the thing that I liked most was Art with Room 11, Room 3, Room 12 and Room 2.”
Lochlan	“Making my candy family with Reuben and Charlie.”
Lucy	“I liked doing the Christmas Art and I liked doing the shapes in Maths and Writing and Reading.”
Madison	“I liked Christmas Art and I liked writing. And I liked seeing Sticky [the stick insect].”
Max	“I liked seeing your mum on Skype and I liked doing the Christmas cards, well birthday cards for Mrs Earl.”
Millie	“Umm, I liked making all the Christmas things. And I liked umm…reading.”
Mya	“I liked doing R.E. and a bit of Maths and I liked doing Reading and I liked Rachel reading the BFG and I liked playing and I liked doing a bit of fitness and I liked Jemma sharing the [stick insect]. I like doing the afternoon tea.”
Noah	“I liked you writing on the computer. And Ixtcy [the stick insect].”
Olivia	“I liked doing Fitness on the day after Monday and I liked making Christmas cards for Mrs Early and I liked doing Christmas crafts and Maths and Reading and I liked doing the afternoon tea yesterday and I liked a bit the Fitness in Room 12 and I liked umm playing with my friends Jemma, Abby and Mya and I liked playing outside yesterday.”
Preston	“That I got a brilliant teacher.”
Reuben	“I like playing with my friends because they are very nice to me.”
Sophia	“I liked looking at the stick [insect].”

Thank You Thursday

Good evening.

Thank you for your very generous gifts this afternoon, I was blown away!

Let's see...King of Tokyo, now that's a great board/dice game...so is Robo Rally, now that's a BRILLIANT game...another X-Wing, or another TIE-I, perhaps a B-Wing...so many choices!

Thanks for the spread this afternoon too, it was delicious!


















And just to prove that we did actually do something...academic...today, the children did a handwriting assessment for the portfolios.



And a good time was had by all!

Thanks again,

Mr Grant