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Look at our beautiful Matariki fact poster!  We have loved learning about the Maori New Year and planting our beanstalks.

Yay for Thursday when our coffee van is open across the road at lunchtime!  It is a day for multi teacher orders and surprise deliveries.  Coffee is the best RAK!  RAK= Random Acts of Kindness

Welcome back boys.  We are so pleased you are feeling better and back at school today. Jess found some time to catch you up and get your beans planted.  They look great.

Just when I start to feel a teeny tiny bit stressed I think of the Lightbox series I am watching at the moment Madam Secretary and just feel relieved I am not juggling the politics of the world. The politics of Room 5 is enough for Mrs Brown.

Thanks Alexandra!  Alexandra came in at morning tea time and helped me set up for reading!  Thank you.  RAK week is awesome.  Our day is such a lovely one when we all do nice things for each other.

Finn and I went up to make Ms Ali a cup of coffee as she was going straight out to morning tea duty after a busy morning.  The next two weeks are RAK week – Random Acts of Kindness week.  A nice way to finish a busy term 2. We are doing little kindness projects.

The PicknMix has been quite a big thing for year 1.  How about some of those  quiz questions – sooooo tricky.  The Word Whiz quiz today was really hard but we have soldiered through with some ‘going with the flowing’ and some blatant answer calling out wink wink.

We have a saying in Room 5, ‘you have to go with the flow’ and today there will be a lot of that!  We have Ms Ali in and out of Room 5 doing catch up blocks of teacher release.  All teachers get an hourly amount allocated each term and sometimes, (because of lots of reasons), you get it given in a clump or two towards the end of term.   Yay for Ms Ali, and Mrs Brown is here too!!

We also have a few Room 3 children with us today as Mrs Tomich’s leadership reliever is sick.  We have some big buddy systems in place and ready to charge into the day.

While the skipping ‘Fitness Fanatic’ group are off skipping this morning with Ms Ali and the rest of the school, Mrs Brown has partnered up our new Room 3 friends and we are teaching maths games.

It is the final day of the PicknMix events!  Teachers may need teacher juice tonight or at least lots of coffee through out the day.  ‘Hold on to your hats’…we are charging into Thursday!

Wow.  I don’t know if I can even imagine life before Jess in little Room 5.  I just wanted to acknowledge Jess who has made a massive difference in the classroom.  The extra pair of highly capable hands has been incredible.  Jess is one of life’s ‘behind the scenes’ type of people and very modest.  BUT I wanted to let you all know Jess does so much in Room 5 and is incredible with the children.  We are super lucky to have her and I just can’t imagine how we coped without her!  Thank you Jess for everything you do. We love you lots. x