Cross country - what a day! And ...welcome to week 3

Kia ora - week 2 over and done with =)
This week is ROAD SAFETY week - a competition will be going home with your child tomorrow - your child can do it and return it any time during the week and once I have them all in - I'll post them
GOOD LUCK!!
http://www.brake.org.nz/roadsafetyweek

To look forward to: This Thursday from 2pm Room 7 will be doing HOCKEY SKILLS with Sharon Gates. Sharon is a brilliant hockey coach and works for Hockey Wairarapa.
We are very lucky to be given this opportunity - your child/ren will remember this from last year (if they were at our school ;)
They don't need to bring anything as it's all supplied - JUST REMEMBER TO WEAR SHOES ON THAT DAY. The children have to wear shoes for hockey skills. 
This hockey programme runs for 4 weeks with a hockey festival at the end of the weeks.

Chinese - Mandarin lessons will continue from this Friday. The children are REALLY enjoying doing calligraphy with Zhangzhang - they write with a special brush and water on special paper ;)
We also have  a new song-ask you child if they can sing it to you ;) YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE IT!!!!!!!

What a day today was - Cross Country at Barton's farm. Enjoy the photos!

Mid-week week2

Our school garden - we are lucky enough to have had Mrs (Ruth) Evans - an awesome Nanny to some of our children at school volunteer to take small groups of children and work with them in the garden or potting shed.
4 children have been chosen to work with Ruth tomorrow (for about 20 minutes) - (we will change the children over the next few weeks).
I had a lot of children wanting to be the first in the gardening group so I had a group of children write a persuasive letter to me - telling me why I should choose them.
If you click on the link to the right of here....."The children's work" you can read some of the letters.
http://greytown7.blogspot.co.nz/p/the-childrens-work.html

If you click on this link this will take you to when KIDS CAN COOK KITCHEN was at our school last term. You can then watch the video of what the children did when Chris was working with them.

http://www.marketground.co.nz/greytownschool

Link straight to the video

http://www.marketground.co.nz/video.asp?v=8p8MbLWlcZM

Week 2, term 2...

Kia ora and welcome to week 2 in SUPER SHARP SEVEN.

CROSS country - this Wednesday (let's see how Mr Weather holds out), the school app will have an update on the morning telling us whether it is on or not. Postponement day is Friday.

On Wednesday remember to pack: A good hearty lunch, water bottle, some $ to spend at the fundraising food stall, sneakers, a change of footwear if want, plastic bag for muddy gear, warm jacket and a great SHARP attitude.
If you are coming (picnic with child/ren - bring something to sit on). 

Children can wear their HOUSE COLOUR t-shirt. If you're not sure of their house colour please ask me, most children know. 
Arawa = blue. Takitimu = red. Aotea = green. Tainui = yellow
Please - if your child hasn't returned their slip with how they are getting to and from cross country please send it to school on Tuesday.

Anzac Day - thank you to the children who turned up on Saturday to represent our school and community. The children who carried the crosses for the fallen soldiers did so with the utmost respect.
The photos in the slideshow show both our school ceremony on Friday and the Greytown ceremony on Saturday.You will see some of the photos have been taken in our school hall - we read the names of the WW1 soldiers that attended Greytown School. The children quickly recognised some of the surnames as Street names in Greytown. It was a wonderful talk and history being discussed.


This video is one I showed the children, about 2 young boys who grew up together and went to war together.
While the children were writing their letters home from their trenches - we watched and listened to this clip.
Jack and Tom is a short film created by the students of Miranda Public School and Port Hacking High School to commemorate the 100th ANZAC Day.

WRITING home from our trenches - the children wrote letters home (pretending they were writing from the 1st world war =( On Friday we then stained the letters to make them look old - 100 years old =)
While the children sat in their trenches we had background war sounds being played.
Thanks to Axel - who was awarded the Victory Cross for saving Miss Burt.

More photos:


I loved the comments after the children got up from their trench "oooh I have a sore..."

MARVELLOUS MATHS...we have now started our numeracy topic of addition and subtraction. We are relating a lot of this to real life problems. Throughout the day we have a little maths spot that comes out of that magic teaching/learning moment.

Time to sign off - to end this blog spot I must say: Amelia and I had a fabulous time visiting the Gallipoli exhibition and "The Great War exhibition" in Wellington- very timely. I would love to have had all of Room 7 with me - totally amazing. Here's a couple of my own snaps from "The Great War exhibition" ...

The children were a bit lucky on Thursday as Olivia's mum & dad brought in a yummy surprise for the children to celebrate Olivia's 9th birthday...

On that note...