Welcome to week 10 - 7th April - 11th April

Kia ora,
We are now up to week 10 - wow we really do need to enjoy the moment - as time goes SO FAST!
We have had an awesome week 9 in Room 7 - Friday being especially fab! The children were just amazing today - so helpful, caring & going that extra mile for each other.
I loved coming into the class after each break and they were either reading or doing their work from the previous session. 
We hosted Totara syndicate assembly on Tuesday - and it went off without a hitch (well we had a little hitch, the ipad was overloaded with photos & videos, which meant while Schalk was videoing the assembly we only got the Karakia! = the 1st 2 minutes!!!!)

Here we are - getting ready for assembly...this is our practice.

On the day - having a wee practise b4 the big moment!

Sausage sizzle & lemon drinks = this Wednesday 9th April.

Thank you to everyone for getting your orders in for this....we were having the fundraiser for a new flag (and as luck would have it the flag turned up .... ;)

Now the money from this fundraiser will go to support Jacob Skinner who is an ex-student of our school. Jacob is a gorgeous young man who has recently been diagnosed with cancer. Jacob & his 2 brothers all went to Greytown School - a fantastic family!

As an Auntie who has been through the cancer walk with my nephew Brad - it is a humongous life changing time. It is like your whole world has been tipped upside down! My brother & family were so supported by the people of Greytown - & it really really helped to have that support.

So our loving support goes to Jacob, his lovely mum Rowan & his 2 brothers Callum & Hayden. 

This photo was taken during the week - Giselle & Claudia had a pass the kindness ticket - & they wrote this on the playground concrete. Very appropriate.

This message was written by Giselle =)

SHARP STUDENT of week 9 was Emma - Emma showed PRIDE in her eating space. What I was looking for was when the children 'read & feed' at morning tea time, that they eat over their lunchbox, tidy any crumbs up & put rubbish in the bin. Emma always has a tidy working space - well done Emma!

At the moment the school is trialling a new lunch time SHARP initiative.

 (Each lunch time all the children sit from 12-12.15pm and eat - a bell then rings. The children then have to put their hand up to let the duty teacher know they are ready to leave their eating space).

We are trialling from year 1 up that the children can leave when the 12.15pm bell rings without having to put their hand up at 12.15pm - they will leave no rubbish. 

This puts the onus on the children. If the trial works we will keep this new rule, if not =( we will go back to the children having to put their hand up to be let go from their eating space. 

Portraits - the children have been doing sketching - well this has been an experience. We started by doing a quick 5 minute drawing of ourself or a friend. Then the children were taught step by step to draw their face - we broke the page up so the drawing was in proportion...well I must say we did have some laughs. I can't wait to get the before & after sketches up in the room.

 Wow -wee - busy lil artists...

 Thirmira & Ruby sketching their faces .... look 4ward to the finished results!!

Emma & Boston showing off their sketching skills - bit of a foot in the way!

Lachie's master piece....we did a bit of work on shading. 

(Someone (not Lachie) ended up with a moustache! ;)

Now I better explain THE CAVE! We have the writing corner & we have made a cave where the children can go to ... to do their fun writing. You will see in the middle photo Bailey & Cameron busy doing their fun writing..... it was so funny - they were so quiet working away - someone had to say "Miss Burt - shall we tell Bailey & Cameron to come out?".....

 Narrative writing - getting started.....roll the dice -

 Cameron & Bailey in the cave ;)

Writing the day away........

Golden/SHARP time - we wrote a name - cut it out & opened it up.

In the middle we turned it into an alien or a creature ...

Look at these fabulous creations. 

 Lachie's name......then open up - ta daaaaaaaaaaaaa

Bella's pink rabbit...

 Ruby's Mum's name.....

ta daaaaaaaaaa....a frog

Monet's awesome alien who has eaten someone's brain!

Bailey presented me with another SURPRISE present - wow a lovely handmade bookmark & card with an old 10 cent coin in it (Bailey said he didn't need the coin anymore!)...here is a pic of Miss Burt looking stunning wearing the lovely bow that Bailey gave me. Thank you Bailey.

And to finish this week's post - well well - we had a bit of April Fool's going on....look at this from Sam & Cam ;)

They got Miss Burt!!

On that note - enjoy the rest of the weekend. Loving this sunshine!!

Pass on the kindness =)

Here's a clip the children loved....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfxB5ut-KTs

And lastly:  Leigh Perry (teacher in R5) and myself have been given an amazing opportunity to travel to the United States to look at ICT in schools on the West Coast. We leave Sunday 27^th April and will be away for two weeks. We will be travelling with 12 other teachers from around NZ – visiting schools in LA, San Francisco and San Diego. This means that Rose Scheyvens (pronounced Scavens) (whom the children have had teach in R7 before)  will be teaching the first week of term 2.  So in 3 weeks time today I will be in Auckland awaiting my flight to Los Angeles. I'm so looking forward to this opportunity but also quite nervous (I don't like flying that much) which is ridiculous as I travelled so much in my 20's and loved flying! Old age, I blame! And that means in 5 weeks time I will be landing back in NZ - yay! And I will be back in Room 7 on the Monday. I look forward to bringing what I learn in the States back to Greytown School. Watch this space!