Santa Visit

And to finish the year . . . a visitor.  Better than Santa even, Mrs Smith came to visit to celebrate Christmas with us.

I would like to take this opportunity to say how much I have enjoyed working in Room 2,  and wish every one a very Merry Christmas. 

Remember to say 'hello' when I am on duty around the school, even when you're Big Year Fours.  You'll be able to find me - I'll be wearing my fabulous Mrs Bear sunhat (thank you Zoe and Mrs May).

Over and out . . .

Christmas shared lunch

On Wednesday, we had a shared Christmas lunch.  Afterwards, people could tell their Christmas joke from their cracker for the afternoon roll instead of the usual "Good afternoon"!

Christmas comes to Cockle Bay

Our Christmas tree is up and all our Christmas buddies have arrived, along with a few extra random teddies.

Celebration Night

On Tuesday, the weather was kind and our Celebration Night went ahead.  Everyone did a fantastic job.  Mrs Bell gave Room 1 and Room 2 a 10/10 for their Samoan sasa at rehearsal, and we did not disappoint on the night.

An extra special mention to Hannah D who introduced the sasa in the Samoan language, and Ruby who was main character who introduced the dance items through her family's button box.

Room 2's button box

On Celebration Night, we are performing the Button Box, where the main characters look at different buttons and reminisce on past events.  In Room 2 we enjoyed looking through Mrs Bear's button box and sorting the buttons in different ways: boring, interesting, favourites, or by size or colour or shape.  Here are a few of the sorts:

Reading our fish stories

The weather is getting warmer, so it was a nice change to take our SSR outside under the trees.  Instead of books, we read our published fish stories.  We exchanged stories a few times, so everyone had a chance to read to few different ones.  You can read them all in the Writing page.

Here is Cooper's creative story, but you can read them all on the Writing page.

Sketching butterflies

We watched the video, Anton's butterfly, which shows how a boy improves his sketching when he looks very carefully and listens to specific feedback

Well done Amber.  in your third attempt, the butterfly wings look very much like the picture we are copying.

Great work Mitchell.  In your third attempt, the butterfly wings are the correct shape. 

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