Water Safety Friday

Good afternoon,

Today's learning, once we finished having morning tea...


...was all about water safety. Specifically river safety. The class was split in three - one group on one side pushing the water away from them with kick boards, one group was on the other side, doing the same as those opposite, while the third group went between...











While we were waiting for the bus on the grass outside OLV, the children applied the game skills they have been learning during our fitness rotation, namely Octopus. Which they arranged and played completely off their own bat!


And that was our day, in terms of learning stuff! (Well, apart from how to get on with your peers...)

We left for the pool at 09:20 with my Tablet PC pen safely housed in, well, its housing (!), and when we got back it was...Du du du...missing! Arghh!


So most of the rest of the day was spent looking for the jolly thing!


Off we trot to assembly, and low and behold, when we get back, there it was sitting on the keyboard!

Later I got the whole story - some senior girls had come round while we were at swimming looking for Room 2's House Points, which they know is on an Active Inspire file that's run from my tablet onto the board. Well, I guess they must have tried to find it, and since the Tablet PC was in Tablet mode they had to use the pen to do it. For reasons unknown, they then took the pen when they left Room 2 for Room 1, realised they still had it and left it in Room 1 where, later in the day, one of the Room 1 children found it and started playing with it on the floor (gasp!). Mary saw it, took it, tried to use it as a pen (since that's what it looks like). No ink was forthcoming, so she threw it into the rubbish bin! Fast forward to Assembly, I mentioned to all and sundry that I was missing my tablet pen and if anyone found it please return it. And so they did! Ha!

In the meantime I had ordered another one (@ $68.00), so I had to rush off at 3:00 to cancel the order.

Still, it all came right in the end. Thankfully. This Tablet PC is absolutely brilliant, worth it's weight in gold, but only if you've got the pen!

Mr Grant

Taniwha Friday

Good afternoon,

This morning kicked off with, well, photos...





After morning tea we drew our own Taniwha by breaking it up into common shapes - like, star with a big M, draw a big C...




...and then viewed each other's work...





As seen on New Zealand Folk Song...

One day a taniwha
Went swimming in the moana
He whispered in my taringa
"Won't you come along with me
There such a lot to see
Underneath the deep blue sea."

I said "Oh, no, no, no!
You'd better go, go, go,
Although I know we could be friends.
My Mama's waiting for me
Underneath the kowhai tree
Taniwha, haere ra!"

We will revisit this next week.

Have a great weekend,

Mr Grant

Thursday's Just Flown By...

Good afternoon,

This afternoon, after a bit of R.E., where we discussed how baptism is a form of welcome...into the church, that is...and how we welcome others...


...and the significance of our Christian/Baptismal names...



...Room 2 flew the birds that they made at the end of last week.


And a good time was had by all.

Thank you to those of you who were able to help out yesterday, 'twas much appreciated.

Tomorrow is, well, Tuesday. For the morning, anyway. We will be following Tuesday morning's programme, instead of the normal Friday morning programme. Which will mean that we will be having Maths instead of Housekeeping, and Reading instead of Library.

We're switching back to Friday after lunch.

CU in the morning,

Mr Grant

Pigeon Friday

Good afternoon,

We had a bit of excitement this morning (well, more so than usual), when, after fitness...


...we trotted along to Room 12 to have a jolly nice chap show us some of his racing pigeons.





He then sent them home before him, so to speak...


After Art, where we coloured dragon scales in contrasting (opposite) colours...


...(thanks again Sarah) we had our weekly visit to the library (please, if you got an overdue notice, bring the books back to school!), and we joined the A Team who were doing Jump Jam right outside (and were, lets face it, distracting us anyway!)...



...before watching some Veggie Tales over lunch.




And a good time was had by all.

Farewell Hamish, enjoy your trip to Aus, and we hope to see you again when things settle down back here in Christchurch!

Mr Grant

Feathery Wednesday

Good afternoon,

This afternoon, as part of our Topic topic, we discussed feathers...which I kind of had to look up on the spot...


...so's we could figure out which bit went where...


...which we related to the bits of a tree...

The tip is the top, the vains is the feather, the shaft is the trunk and the quill is the sticky-outy bit.

We then cut some out to add to some bird skeletons that we're hopping to make tomorrow.



Bye for now,

Mr Grant and Room 2

Good afternoon,

This afternoon we had an R.E. lesson on the Holy Spirit. We showed how we can show the Holy Spirit working in us...


...and how the Holy Spirit makes us smile!


...before consolidating our learning through a Holy Spirit worksheet thusly...


(We also spotted an error in the R.E. digital resource...)


After R.E. it was off to production practice, for the first time in the hall.


And a good time was had by all.

Tomorrow is our library day, so please remember to bring back your library books.

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Back to School Wednesday

Good evening,

Another busy day was had here in Room 2.

A touch of writing...


...and some R.E.



...with some singing to end the day. Please keep practicing these at home.

THE FROG KING

Far, far away
There was a spring:
There lived a frog
And the frog was king.
King of the pond
And he would boast
That he was ruler
From coast to coast.

His mighty words
Spread 'cross the land
Until they crossed
O'er the sea's salt strand,
Into the kingdom
Blue and deep
Where the whales swim
And the dolphins leap.

There was a turtle
Brave and free
Said: 'I will go
Test this mystery'.
He swam through rivers,
Lakes and fords
So he could visit
The great frog lord.

And when at last
He reached the spring
There was the frog,
There was the king.
'Bow down before me'
The frog said.
The turtle jumped in
And the frog was dead!

Paradise Island

We go to the sunshine
The paradise island
We go to Jamaica
We crossin' the sea
We go to the sunshine
The paradise island
Where you pick the mango
Right offa the tree

Sunshine in the winter.
Sunshine in the fall.
Kingston Town has never ever
Seen the snow at all!

We go to the sunshine
The paradise island
We go to Jamaica
We crossin' the sea
We go to the sunshine
The paradise island
Where you pick the mango
Right offa the tree

We know the way,
We know the way,
We know the way,
We know the way,
We know the way,
We know the way to be free.

Mento, ska calypso
Listen to the band
If you want a coconut
Just pick one from the sand!

We go to the sunshine
The paradise island
We go to Jamaica
We crossin' the sea
We go to the sunshine
The paradise island
Where you pick the mango
Right offa the tree

We know the way,
We know the way,
We know the way,
We know the way,
We know the way,
We know the way to be free.
(twice)

(together)
We go to the sunshine...
We know the way.,.

BELLY BUTTON BOOGIE

Grandma
This black button comes from Grandad's army demob suit.

Children
Demob suit?

Grandma
With a thin moustache and wide Lapels he looked quite "zoot hirsute"

Children
Zoot hirsute?

Grandma
But this one here is a strange one dear,
It belonged to Auntie Nelly.

Alice
It's got no button holes!

Grandma
Oh no! She wore it in her belly!

Children
Auntie Nelly? In her belly?

Grandma
She was a dancer of repute
In an oriental way
And when she wore her belly button
She would often say:

b b b b b b b
Boo boo belly button boogie
Boo boo belly button boogie
Boo boo belly button boogie
Boo boo belly button boogie
Do the belly belly belly belly
Belly button boogie tonight

Do the belly button boogie
Do the belly button boogie tonight
(belly button, ooh, belly button)
Do the belly button boogie
Do the belly button boogie tonight
(belly button, ooh, belly button)
Do the belly belly belly belly
Belly button boogie tonight

Just do the b - b - boogie
Woogie till you drop
It's Auntie Nelly's favourite
Her belly is never a flop!

Jack
Hey! Grandad!
You've got enough belly to do a belly dance!!

Do the belly button boogie
Do the belly button boogie tonight
(belly button, ooh, belly button)
Do the belly button boogie
Do the belly button boogie tonight
(belly button, ooh, belly button)
Do the belly belly belly belly
Belly button boogie tonight

You wriggle and you jiggle
Wiggle round the floor
With jelly belly Nelly
The evening is never a bore!

Do the belly button boogie
Do the belly button boogie tonight
(belly button, ooh, belly button)
Do the belly button boogie
Do the belly button boogie tonight
(belly button, ooh, belly button)
Do the belly belly belly belly
Belly button boogie tonight

B-b-b-b-b-b-b
Boo boo belly button boogie (x4)

Do the belly belly belly belly Belly belly belly belly
Belly button boogie tonight

Yeah!!!!

PYJAMA BUTTON

This little teddy bear button
Needs sewing on to keep your top polite,
Or you won't have your pyjamas
And you won't dream your cares away tonight.
Dream of the future you will see.
And dreams will set your spirit free.

Grandma
We've shown you a lifetime,
A journey through hopes and dreams.
We took you to places
And faces you'd never seen.

Alice
You told us about this golden one

Jack
And this one

Alice
And that one

Grandma
Its bedtime!

Jack/Alice
You've told us so much more
Than we knew before.
The time has gone so quickly...

Grandad
It's bedtime!

Jack/Alice
Granny, oh Grandad!
A rainbow is overhead.
One more tale from the Button Box:
It's still quite early,
Too soon to go to bed!

Tell a story one more time...

ALL (or Grandma on bold words)
Magic in the button box,
Sunshine in the button box,
Laughter in the button box,
It's full of wonder!

Tell us what the buttons say!
Lift us from a dreary day!
Take us somewhere far away
We wanna go there!

Stories make a tapestry
Telling famly history.
Open up the button box
And let the stories unfold.

Magic in the button box,
Sunshine in the button box,
Laughter in the button box,
It's full of wonder!

Tell us what the buttons say!
Lift us from a dreary day!
Take us somewhere far away
We wanna go there!

Stories make a tapestry
Telling famly history.
Open up the button box
And let the stories unfold.

Magic in the button box,
Sunshine in the button box,
Laughter in the button box,
Let the stories unfold!

Magic

Sunshine

Laughter

Let the stories unfold!

Indeed, the Belly Button Boogie is first up tomorrow afternoon for our first practice in the hall with the principals. Pray for us!

Mr Grant