Room 2 Newsletter for Term 3, Week 4

Good evening,

Here is the Room 2 Newsletter for Term 3, Week 4.

Please return your permission slips!

Mr Grant

Balloon Monday

Good afternoon,

This afternoon, Room 12 hopped over so's we could all discuss, and do some experiments with, hot air balloons.






And a good time was had by all!

We started the day by having out first look at fractions...



...which the children then had to find halves of given numbers...



Later on, during reading...


...Green Reading Group shared their text with us, In a Dark Dark Wood.


Right, best I get going to write yesterday's Week 4 Newsletter!

Mr Grant

Father's Friday

Good afternoon,

This morning the Room 2 Interchange Maths class was visited by Father Kevin, who talked to the children about the sacrament of Baptism.




I didn't know this, but the Holy Oil that the priests use is olive oil that has been blessed by the Bishop.

Seeing as it was a bit of a cold old morning tea time, the children ate inside, under the watchful eye of Ashley...


...before a bit of Jump Jam.


After lunch we unexpectedly trotted to the library, seeing as we didn't have assembly.


We were joined there by Room 4.



And a good time was had by all.

Have a great weekend,

Mr Grant. And Galoop.


Oh, the indignity! :-)

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

No School Today

Good morning,

This just in...it's snowing! Again. Can't remember when we had two big dumps of snow in Christchurch in the same year.

Anyway, school is closed for the day. And I quote...

School is closed - Keep safe and warm at home today. Please keep checking this website for updates throughout the day.

Happy Feast Day!

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Keep warm, we'll keep you posted.

Mr Grant

Room 2 Newsletter for Term 3, Week 3

Good afternoon,

Here is the Room 2 Newsletter for Term 3, Week 3.

CU tomorrow, weather permitting...

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