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You have lots to look forward to. These science boards will take over your life and house for at least 4 weeks when your children get up to the intermediates.  They are all amazing and have so much work in them.

I LOVE children’s books.  Charlie and Lola are firm favourites.  I love the Paddington Bear books (obviously). I also absolutely adore the Ruby Red Shoes series as well.  This profile of the Ruby Red Shoes author popped up today on one of my favourite websites, The Grace Tales, (click on the link below).  Highly recommend!  Reading a range of children’s books is so important to develop vocabulary.  In low decile schools they have a project called ‘the 100’ where they aim to expose children to 100 books being read to them in one year as without that exposure to language children find it hard to progress their literacy skills.

Click here to read more about author Kate Knapp

I hope you all get to enjoy some time away from the school routine too!  No making lunches, no doing homework, no rushing to get here for our 8.50 start of school bell.  This is my happy face with intermediate teacher Bridie Zarifeh.  Miss Zarifeh was my student teacher 1 1/2 years ago and is now in her second year of teaching.  She is amazing.  Bridie coaches the intermediate netball team, although her first love is hockey, (and she is a really good hockey player too playing in a Auckland rep tournament).

It was girl power in our junior school Koru assembly today.

Georgia and I were driving home from netball on Saturday and heard this amazing song with some gorgeous lyrics.  We are going to play it lots in Room 5 and see if we can learn the words.

Super Teacher Assistant Phoebe has chosen the O for Outstanding cape for the day.

A huge thank you to Chris and big brother Matthias for fixing our broken castle.  Gabriel and Sebastian have missed the castle so much.  We really appreciate your RAK – random act of kindness.  Thank you for looking after little Room 5.

We are looking forward to a fun last week of term 2.  We have certainly managed to squeeze lots into the last 10 weeks of school.  It will be a fun last week with RAK being our focus – random acts of kindness.

Congratulations to Eriko who had her concert in the weekend.  You look beautiful Eriko and I know your singing would have been amazing also.

Congratulations to Alexandra and Vanessa who had their violin concert yesterday.  Well done ladies.  Maybe you could do something together for the annual KTS talent quest which gets held in term 4?

Hope you all got to enjoy that blue blue sky on Saturday.  We were out and about on our sporting adventures.  This was at Georgia’s Epsom Girls Grammar netball game.

 

 

 

 

AND Georgia went to an incredible 16th  birthday party on Saturday night at Eden Park.  It was organised by the MakeAWish foundation and the girls got picked up in a limo and went to celebrate with 50 other friends at an Ed Sheeran themed party.  It was incredible. (Georgia inherited my lack of height and is the little short blonde one in the middle).

…and a couple of us naughty Mums were so excited by the festivities we over stayed our welcome a tiny bit to give Ed Sheeran a little hug.  I promise you the teenage stage of parenthood is actually quite lovely and not as bad as you think!

Vanessa and Nadia wrote a lovely story today about a family of mice who lived in a castle ship.  Well done ladies!  (By the way ‘lovelymrsbrown’ is the username the girls typed in for the site Storybird that the girl’s use to write stories), it always pops up on the cover – I must change it to read Nadia and Vanessa instead!  It is a fabulous resource and the stories get printed out like real books!