Cultural Day

Last Friday was cultural day at George Street. On Thursday, the Japanese visitors taught us some different games and dances. On Friday, children dressed in items from their own culture. Assembly was full of lots to see.

It was also Georgie's last day and so we wish her all the best for her new adventure. We also said thanks and good-bye to our college teachers, Mrs Shaw and Miss Mair.

Gifu Visitors

This week we have visitors at our school from Gifu, Japan. Today Sensei Tamarka taught us how to introduce ourselves in Japanese. We also found out about Sumo wrestling and made our own Sumo characters.

Electives

This are some of the 'Avatar' style masks the Arts Up elective group have created.

5 interesting facts

Last week we each wrote 5 interesting facts about ourselves that others in the class didn't already know.
I did an example for the children and shared this interesting fact -


Who is this groovy lady? She's not wearing her boots or helmet here as she's just posing for a photo but she does really ride a bike like this!

To read other intersting facts and guess who they belong to, go to our writing blog. We will publish some of the facts this week.

Highlights of last week

We had a very busy week last week. Here are some of the things we enjoyed:

• The new cricket rules for playing cricket at lunch (Sam)
• Writing and then finding out 5 interesting things about each other (Nima)
• Touch rugby, T-ball and electives (Tainui)
• Sports groups and cultural groups (Milly)
• Listening to the orginal song of 'We are the World' (Sam)
  

News from room 12

A whole week has gone by since we last wrote on the class blog. So what has been happening?

• Everyone's parents came for an interview with Mrs. Ohlrich to set some learning goals for the year.
• We have 2 college teachers working in our classroom.
• Walk and wheels week was a big success.
  
• Mrs. Ohlrich lost her camera battery and so is feeling very lost without her camera!

Paul Jennings Book Reviews

Listen to this podcast to hear some fabulous book reviews by the Group 6 reading group. This is our first podcast for the year and the children have done a great job, despite being a little nervous talking into the microphone.

The class have listened to these and are very impressed!

I had some trouble describing to Annie what a transistor radio is so I have included a wikipedia link here to help us find out more.
Transistor radio link

Mystery

The case of the missing shoe

After the rush of everyone leaving school yesterday, I looked next to our bag racks and noticed 1 lonely sports shoe had been left behind! I'm not sure who went home wearing only one shoe - Can you help solve the mystery so that this shoe can be returned to its rightful owner?

I have my suspicions as to who it belongs to. So before anyone, particularly the girls, rush out to get another shoe, check with me first. I have kept your shoe in the classroom for you to collect on Monday.

Enjoy your weekend Room 12.

Mrs. Ohlrich with a message...

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Can you guess?

What are these happy children doing before school? Can you guess?