Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Let's Celebrate!!

Go the All Blacks!! Yesterday after school Miss Woods and I hoofed it down to Bealey Ave to join the 50,000 other Cantabrians waiting to see the All Blacks. We must have had good luck on our side because we got a spot right up the front. As the trucks went past I got to shake hands with Mills Muliaina, Keven Mealamu, Adam Thomsom, Richard Kahui, Cory Flynn, Ali Williams and Graham Henry!!! It was very, very exciting. Here are some of the photos that I took from our spot.






Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Holiday Antics

This is where I'm staying during my holidays! Down the hill by the water is my brother's house and I have come to stay along with my sister Anna and my cousin Nick. He is 11 and he goes to Halswell School. We have been tailing some lambs today. That's when you take their tails off to stop them getting dags and getting sick when they get older. We have lots more lambs to do during the rest of the week. If you are doing something fun these holidays then send me some pics and I'll put them on the blog too. Happy holidays!

Anna and Nick at the beginning of the very long driveway.

The system for quickly feeding the pet lambs.

This is Earl, Munter and Zoe.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Certificates - Week 10

There was no Year 2 assembly in the last week of term but that didn't stop us giving two wonderful Room 16 super stars a certificate. Congratulations girls.

Caitlin - Achievment in Sports Education (Market Day)
Bella - Values Award

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Last 3 Days of Term

The last 3 days of this term have been crazy but also a lot of fun. On Wednesday we shared some of our learning in the classroom, and then we had a concert to share our learning in Te Reo Kori. Room 3 welcomed everyone into the hall with a haka powhiri and then sung a waiata. This was followed by Room 10 with folk dancing, Room 15 with Poi, Room 16 with more waiata and Room 13 with rakau (stick games). The children performed wonderfully. Thanks to the family and friends who came along to watch.







On Thursday we finished off our Sports Education for the term with our fundraising Market Day. All teams have been working very hard over the last few weeks making posters, signs and products to sell at the market. We were originally only going to invite Room 15 to come to the market, but after counting up all of the items for sale on Thursday morning we ended up being able to invite 4 other classes! The market was a great success with nearly all products selling out. The teams all made over $100 (of pretend money). The Chipmunks topped off their very sucessfull term by raising $158. Well done to all the teams and thank you to all the parents for the yummy baking donations.




 
We finished the term on Friday with a trip to Clip n Climb. Everyone (Miss A included) had a great time climbing the different walls and overcoming fears of falling and heights. Thank you to the parents who drove us there. Once again, your help was very much appreciated. Here are some pics from the trip.



Finally on Friday afternoon we had a popcorn party and said goodbye to Oliver. Oliver and his family are off to Wellington for a year. We have loved having Oliver in Room 16 this year and we are really going to miss him next term. We wish him and his family the best of luck for their time in Wellington and we hope they will be back at St Albans School in the future.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Auzzie, Auzzie, Auzzie

Yesterday Room 16 jumped the ditch and became Australians for the day. Here we all are in our Auzzie outfits, although we did have a few All Black loyalists who refused to wear Australian colours!