We had Constable Paul MacKenzie in to school today to talk to us about his job. We looked at some pictures he had. We also saw his gun and some other weapons that he had. We were all scared by his loud siren and were allowed to look inside his car. He told us that the colours of the cars are soon going to be changed to yellow instead of orange.

Today we went to the Fire Station. We learned about Stop, Drop and Roll, Getting down, getting low and getting out. We saw the fire engines, Dennis and Singa and all went through the back seat. It was neat fun. Thanks to all the parents who came with us.

We had Pauline from St John's in today and she talked to us about what to do in an emergency. She put some awesome fake blood on Maddox and taught us about what to do if he had a nose bleed. We all need to learn our addresses and phone numbers and especially those long cell phone numbers to be able to contact our families if we are in an emergency situation.
We also looked at Amby and each took home a certificate and pack with stickers, magnet, pencil, a newletter and brochure to read through. It was neat fun.

Hey there,

Room 8 has been doing lots of neat things this week. We were lucky enough to visit the Picton library to watch the Natural Magic Pirate Show.

Here we are with the Captain, saying "Ahhaa"

... and here is the Captain with Midget the Mouse. Midget is balancing cheese on his nose!! It was a great show and we all enjoyed it very much. Thanks very much to Luke's Nana, Shanette for helping us walk to the Library. We didn't get too wet!!

We were very lucky to have our friend Harold here 2 weeks ago. Don't we all look cool!!!

Here are some photos of our assembly. Our next assembly is Friday 19 June and it will be our last assembly this term! Pop in and see our work that we showed in assembly.

Please send your pink form back to school asap, so we can put up our assembly photos.
Thanks, Keri Rowe

Our Special Visitor

Today Ella learned that she could balance on the Bodyrocker at PMP. She enjoyed this.
Daniel learned to cross-over walk slowly and this helped him concentrate. Trinity and Josh have been making a cardboard lion for their reading activity. Beth learned about counting in 10s.
Geshvin has been learning how to do perfect ys in handwriting.
As you can see we have had a VERY BUSY day and are all tired and ready for home!!!

We have had Constable Rob Dekker in today talking about keeping safe. The most important thing we learned was that if we hurt someone when we are older, we can go to jail. Here are some photos of us listening carefully to a story that we were told.

Writing and News

Every Monday and Wenesday and Friday at 2.40pm we will be writing on our blogsite. Feel free to come in and watch us doing this.

Our song

Today we have been learning a new song called Haere Mai. We want to sing it in our assembly on Friday, so we are practising very hard.

Term 2

We have been doing a new developmental maths programme in Room 8 on Fridays. The children are having lots of fun and are using their knowledge of measurement and number during this time. Here are some pictures of the children making patterns and measuring using cubes. Come and have a look in our classroom at our display.

Here are some photos of the Duffy assembly I missed. Trinity got the Duffy book from Room 8, and the remainder of the class got their books after assembly.

It is our assembly this Friday (3rd April) at 11am. We are all excited and looking forward to showing off our work.
We have been writing rules for the classroom. We have had a learning intention to write fantastic hook in sentences this week in writing time and we are going to share some of these in assembly.

I am back today. Yahoo!

After nearly two weeks away, I am back feeling fit and healthy and ready for the rest of the term.

Welcome

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Jocelyn
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