Colourful Friday

Good afternoon,

Aww, didn't they look sweet!




Today's colour day raised over $200 for Jose. Well done, one and all.

This morning, as well as a touch of poetry...



...Room 2 learnt to tell a narrative by drawing a comic strip.







Then our weekly reflections.

Abby	“I liked my birthday! And having a good week.”
Bailey	“I liked writing narratives and jump jam.”
Charlie	“I liked the disco. And procedures.”
Connor	“I liked handwriting.”
Gabrielle	“I liked dressing up in green and I’m excited about the disco.”
George	“I liked playing with my friends.”
Harlan	“I liked doing procedural writing and I liked playing with my BFFs.”
Isabella	“I like doing the colour day. And I like the disco.”
Jack	“I liked playing with my friends.”
Jacob	“I liked singing.”
Jemma	“I liked dressing up in green. And I’ll probably like the disco too!”
Josh	“I liked playing with my friends. And I liked playing bull rush.”
Liam	“I liked Friday when we were dressed up in green.”
Lily	“I liked today because we got to wear green.”
Lochlan	“I liked everything. Everything. Everything.”
Lucy	“I liked doing art.”
Madison	“I liked doing art.”
Max	“I liked doing art.”
Millie	“I liked doing art.”
Mya	“I liked doing Jump Jam and also I liked playing with my friends Jemma and Abby and Olivia S.”
Noah	“I liked doing writing and writing procedures and narratives.”
Olivia	“I liked doing the new writing thing.”
Preston	“I liked playing baddies and goodies.”
Reuben	“I liked how we got to pray to God and that I got to play with my friends.”
Sophia	[absent]

And a good time was had by all.

Enjoy the disco, I'm out for tea with my sister who's over from the U.K.

Mr Grant

Thursday Wonderings

Good afternoon,

This morning Ma Reading Group posed a question. What Would I Do?


After lunch, Room 2 was thoroughly engaged in this activity here.


I was really impressed with the enthusiasm with which they went at it!

Don't forget tomorrow's colour day (we're green) and the reason behind it (a gold coin donation for Jose).

Mr Grant

Wednesday Wobbling

Good afternoon,

This morning, half way through reading, we popped out for our daily Jump Jam.




Reminds me of a Ready to Read book...Wibble Wobble Albatross...

Anyway, this afternoon, we finished our breakdown of the Our Father prayer.


It hadn't even occured to me to link the Our Father prayer to the Eucharist! That's some very clever thinking right there!


Next step - remember it!

Have a great evening,

Mr Grant

Procedural Tuesday

Good afternoon,

This morning was another busy one.

We Are Learning To Write Procedures...

A procedure has a...

Title,
A Goal,
Some Materials,
And some Steps.

Kowhai Reading Group were doing so nicely, I was able to leave them to do some reading assessments!


After lunch and J Team Singing, we broke down some more of the Our Father prayer, much like we did yesterday.


More again tomorrow!

Mr Grant

Sunday Monday

Good afternoon,

It was lovely to see the sun this today, after a rather dismal weekend. Or Saturday, at least.

This morning, after maths...




...Kowhai Reading Group shared a wee play with us. Countdown.


In the afternoon we started to break down what the Our Father prayer meant.


More tomorrow.

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Funday Snowday

Not that there's that much snow about down here.

Anyway, here are this week's reflections.

Abby	I liked the snow!
Bailey	I liked the maths and writing.
Charlie	Absent
Connor	Absent
Gabrielle	I liked the snow that we had today!
George	Absent
Harlan	I liked doing writing because I'm on my second story
Isabella	I liked the snow because it was really fun and we made snowmen.
Jack	Absent
Jacob	Absent
Jemma	I liked playing outside with my friends
Josh	I can't wait to play in the snow!!!!
Liam	I can't wait to get in the snow and throw snowballs. I love the snow!
Lily	I liked playing in the snow today before we went to school. Isaac threw a snowball at my face!!
Lochlan	Absent
Lucy	I liked making snowmen with the coloured paper
Madison	Absent
Max	I liked making the snowmen.
Millie	I liked watching the snow fall before I went to school.
Mya	I liked doing the coloured paper snowmen in Room 2.
Noah	Absent
Olivia	I liked playing yesterday with my friends.
Preston	I just loved doing funky dancing at Jump Jam.
Reuben	Absent
Sophia	I just loved making the snowmen with the coloured paper and doing "Funky Town" song at Jump Jam.

And some of today's activities. Some poetry...






...and the snowmen they were talking about in the above comments.





Mr Grant

Wetday Thursday

Good evening,

Urghh, but the weather was rather unpleasant at the end of the day. Still, I don't really expect the place to be snowed in tomorrow...

Anyway, today, as well as some writing...




...we did some R.E., looking a the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and the Parable of the Lost Coin. We acted some of it out...








...discussed it with our Room 1 buddies...




...and had some great ideas come fourth as to what they meant. More clever than the summary provided, though that was still valuable.


Have a great, wet, cold day tomorrow as I stay home to write report comments,

Mr Grant