Thursday, 29 March 2012

Hey Room 8!!!

Hey everyone!!!  Here's hoping you're having a great time at school with Miss Buchanan!!!  She has been texting me and telling me how exceptionally well you are all behaving!!!  I'm so proud that you are being such great Room 8 superstars!!!

Sophie is still pretty sick :(  She has conjunctivitis which is contagious so she can't go to preschool and I'm stuck at home with her.  Good news is I have been able to do quite a bit of school work - so I haven't had to stay up too late.

Congratulations Caleb!  I hear that you are officially a big brother to a little girl!  I can't wait to hear all about it and hopefully she's not waking you up at night time.

Miss Buchanan told me that the Willowbank man was fantastic and that Room 8 were extremely knowledgeable.  I heard all about the kiwis and them being nocturnal plus that you were extra spoiled with Riley's frogs coming to visit :)  Remember that you'll need to whisper in the classroom so that you don't frighten them.

I also heard that someone is sporting (wearing) some rather flash new spectacles!  I can't wait to see them on Monday.

Here's hoping you all have a fabulous week and that you learned your spelling words and basic facts this week so that you score well.  Mr Leka if you didn't manage to get your words signed off on Monday morning it's really important that you do it first thing on Tuesday.  I'm glad you thought about copying someone's in your groups words though ... what a super idea.

Make sure you take some photos of the significant things that you've brought to share as part of your cloak.

:)
Mrs Tauwhare (and Sophie)

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Julia's back from Australia!!!

This morning after news Julia shared her news from Australia!!! There was even puppets!!!!

Friday, 16 March 2012

Museum Day out!!!

A huge thank you to the wonderful parents that came and helped out on the day!!!

Monday, 12 March 2012

Kiwisport!!!

What a fabulous morning and a great way to start the week!!!

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Life jackets

I wasn't going to take photos today as I thought you would all be tired of all the pool photos ... But imagine our surprise when we arrived at swimming today :)

Todays Superkid

Room 8 had some wonderful things to say about Anthony this morning ...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Guess who lost a tooth today

Note for Friday

Please note that children will need to bring a change of clothes (not denim) to swimming on Friday ... This could mean some winter pyjamas or old sweatpants and a t-shirt. These clothes will be getting wet as part of the water safety component of our Swim Smart programme.

Our bus ride ...

Room 8 love the ride to and from swimming! We love talking about all the things we see, especially the house that's located in the cemetery.

Todays writing task

We started our planning for our persuasive piece of writing ...
"We should go to school on Saturdays" ... Only 4 children are trying to persuade us that this is a good idea. Everyone else in Room 8 thinks we shouldn't.

Our favourite class short stories

Lily and Satora checking out the Andy Griffiths novels

Before school ...

Our computers are a hive of activity!

Tuesday 6th March, 2012

Another awesome day in the pool!!! Room 8 had an absolute blast in the 38 degrees pool today! Great news was we had a few more brave children put their heads under. There was some crazy horse races and Chloe should definitely get a special mention for her beautiful technique doing the caterpillar ... Well done Bailey as well for his fabulous back float!!! Watch this space for more amazing feats!