School Production!!!

We have been so busy practising our dance and learning all the songs

for the upcoming school production of

The Wizard of OZ.

Tickets are now for sale at the school office:

Family (2 adults, 2-3 children) $20

Adult $8 and Child $4

TUESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER at 7PM

DISCOVERY TIME!!

Last week we started Discovery Time on Friday mornings. Thank you so much to Jante's mum, Grandma and Aunty, Sophie's mum and Belinda who have helped out so far.


We love Discovery Time and being able to do new things. So far we have had... the water tray, magnetics, painting, colouring, drawing, ooblek, games, popcorn sound, computers, puppets, letter of the week activities, creating a spring tree, playing with balls... we can't wait for this Friday to see what fun activities Miss Fisken and Miss McLean have planned for us!!


Check out some photos of the first week of Discovery

Daffodil Day!!

Wear mufti to school on Friday - try for something yellow

Daffodil day this Friday is Friday the 27th August. Many of us will know someone whose life has been affected in some way by cancer.

We'd like to support the Cancer Society with their ongoing research and support for those who have cancer by wearing yellow on Friday and making a gold coin donation. Miss McVicar has kindly organized Daffodil day at East Gore School.

Smartkiddies - Maths website!

We are going to be using an exciting new maths website during maths in class and you will also be able to use this at home (for up to 2 activities).

www.smartkiddies.co.nz

You may need to get an adult or older brother or sister to help you get in with the passwords.

I am looking forward to seeing this tool in action!

Miss Mclean's Chooks

We got to see some pictures of Miss McLean's chickens this week.

We thought they were quite funny!

Fraction Fun and The Orchestra Visit

Make sure you have a look at our Fraction fun we had today - it's under the maths page.

We also wrote some great stories about the orchestra that came to school today, so check out the writing page to read them!

Have a happy and safe weekend, see you all on Monday!

Miss McLean

Miss McLean's Calves

Miss McLean took some photos of the calves on her farm to show the kids. We thought they were very cute and liked the video she had that showed the calves skipping and playing with each other.

Here are some pictures of her calves:

Cupcakes!!!

Cupcakes are for sale every Friday for $1.50 each! This is to raise money for the 2011 Senior Camp.

Don't forget to get your orders in to Miss Fisken before school on Fridays. She is also selling delicious Milkshakes for $1.00 on a Friday (also a camp fundraiser).

PRODUCTION - The Wizard of OZ

We will be starting to learn and practice our dance for our Production.

Thank you very much to Rachel Ferguson who is choreographing our "Tree Dance". She has volunteered her time to help us.

Remember - if you can help out with something for our Production, don't forget to let one of the teachers know ASAP.

Public Library Visit

We had a wonderful visit to the Gore Public Library today.

Thank you very much to Jenny, she had a fun activity planned where we hid 5 children around the library and then had to find them and mark where they were on a map of the library.

After we found books to get out and take home, Jenny read us the "kiwi" version of The 3 Little Pigs - this one was called The 3 Little Lambs - it was very funny! We love stories being read to us!

Thank you also to Rebecca's Nana, Hannah's Mum, Alisha's Mum and Mrs Hook who each took their car with children to the library.

We look forward to our final visit this year next term.

Don't forget if your child brought home books from the public library today, they need to be returned back to the public library before 30 August 2010.

Some children were unable to get books out due to overdue books or not having a card - please return overdue books ASAP and if your child hasn't yet got a library card, call in to see Jenny at the library to get an application form - it's FREE to join!

READING

We are all very excited about the new way of teaching reading we will be trialling in the junior school starting this week. Some children will be working with Mrs Heaps in room 3 during reading time.

It is VERY important that all children remember to bring their reading book back to school every day as they will be required to read it again during our reading time. They also need to remember to bring their home reader (yellow book) every day as well. This helps them record what they are reading and aim towards gaining the certificates for a certain amount nights of reading.

Remember the best way to learn to read is getting plenty of reading mileage! This is reading lots of familiar books with lots of different people. We need to become really confident when reading, and by reading books we've already read, this helps us to do so.

Welcome!

Welcome to Mikaire to our class.
He joined us at the start of term 3.
Coming all the way from Christchurch, we are very lucky to have Mikaire as part of our class.

Five Little Monkey's

Wizard of Oz Song to Learn

New "Our Writing" Page

We are working hard on using our tool hand during writing.

Check out some our writing by clicking on the tab at the top under our name.

Don't forget to leave a comment as we like to know what you think of our hard work.

I hope you are all having a well deserved relaxing holiday!

Remember it's important to keep reading over the holidays.

Make sure you also check out all the cool reading and maths games that are linked to our blog.

Enjoy the rest of the break, I'll see you all in term 3!

Miss McLean

LAST WEEK OF TERM 2

Hello there Room Totara children and families!!

Well I know that the children had an awesome week with Mrs T!

I had a great week up in Palmerston North, the weather was sunny for a couple of days, then it rained. Never mind, I'm back now and the sun is shining down here!

It was quite cool in the plane on the way home as we flew into Invercargill airport, so I got to see my house from up in the plane - it's so funny how everything looks so little (kind of like wee toys!)

I am looking forward to catching up with most parents at the interviews this Monday and Tuesday!

Our blog competition is just about to come to an end, you have until Friday 9am to get those comments in!!! So far we have one child that's managed to get 6 comments posted by friends and families - so get commenting!!! There is a cool prize up for grabs!! So far we have 6 girls in the running to win the prize - so come on boys!!!

Enjoy the sunny weekend and I'll see you all on Monday!!

Miss McLean

Mrs T

Miss McLean will be away from Tuesday next week (week 10) and will only be teaching in room 4 next Monday and then Mrs T will be filling in for the rest of the week.

Miss McLean's partner has won a national award for showing dairy cattle and we are off to Palmerston North to collect the trophy.

Mrs T is very excited about teaching in Room Totara!

Miss McLean will be back for the last week of school and is looking forward to catching up with some parents at the Parent/teacher interviews on Monday (28th) and Tuesday (29th) June.

Your child will bring home your interview time tomorrow (Friday 18th). Please return your child's National Standard's clear-file and learning journal at the interview or by the end of the term. The learning journals will be sent home at the end of the year for you and your child to keep. The National Standards clear-files will be kept at school and will follow your child through until year 6. It is important for these to be returned as soon as possible so they can be added to.

Miss McLean :-)

Swimming

Remember, we only swim Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as we get quite tired after 3 days so need a few days to recover!

Don't forget your togs and towel next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday for our last week of swimming!

Skype

We are learning about a cool new tool - Skype.

This is video calling.

We are practicing using this by Skyping Miss Fisken's class during reading time.

We are excited about this as we hope to be able to Skype our Buddy Blog class in Australia - Room 2KJ.