Month: July 2018

 

Happy birthday Julian.  You are six years old now! Wow.  We understand your newborn baby sister Daphne is coming home today.  So exciting.  You are a big brother now!

I learnt sometime new today.  We wrote sentences about things that live in the sea.  Sebastian wrote about piranhas.  He also told me otters eat piranhas.  I wasn’t convinced so we googled it and Sebastian was right!  Otters eat piranhas.  Thanks Sebastian. Sebastian said he is an expert about fish.

We all chose different things that you see in the ocean and we wrote about it in our writing today.

There was a pet rat at the girls kindergarten in Wellington that caused me much anxiety!  I hate rats.  It’s name was Anakin Skywalker and it use to be allowed to leave the cage and “play”with the children, for example they use to put it in the pram and push it around.  I did not cope with this and every morning before dropping the girls off I would make them promise not to touch the rat or go near it.  Every morning they would answer me, “Yes Mummy.  I promise not to touch the rat Mummy”.  Every afternoon I would ask them, “Darling did you touch the rat?” and they would always say, “No Mummy.  I promise Mummy.”

THEN when they graduated from kindy and we got their kindy portfolios every second photo was of the girls playing with the blimmen rat! I became a much more suspicious mother after that!  Good training for the teenage years!

Yay we were lucky enough to get some extra little people into the classroom to join us at the end of the day.  Welcome to our singing session that we always try and do after we get our bags and tidy up.

Gabriel got a special certificate today for achieving a personal goal.  I know it was a tough one for you to tackle but you did it!  I am so proud of you Gabriel!

We chose some special delivery agents to deliver our thank you book to Ben Watkins up in the senior school – his family gave us lots of treasures for the classroom.  These children were extra sparkly today with behaviour so were chosen for the delivery mission with Jess.

We are getting great at knowing our goals and using our new goal books!

Some cute reading bunnies.

We did a double dose of writing today.  First we rewrote our sentences from yesterday and added in wow words.  Then we made a thank you book for the Watkins family who donated lots of fabulous new treasures to our classroom.  All the children wrote sentences in the thank you book.

Our head boy Connor was on duty with me today at morning tea.  He did a great job refereeing the year 3 boys soccer game which needed some diplomatic handling when one team had more players than the other!

Mrs Brown was on duty at morning tea time and gave out our new kete cards which we have started this term.  Alexandra and Eloise were spotted being so kind to Juliette in Room 4 so got to put their reward cards in the Koru kete bag.  If they get their name drawn out at assembly they will get a prize and they will get lots of house points.