Grandparents Day

Today was Grandparents Day at our school.  We had lunch together and the grandparents had a cup of tea while we played outside.  After lunch we sang some songs to our Grandparents  and then did some folk-dancing.  After our dancing we asked the grandparents to join us in the Birdie Dance. That was fun! Everyone enjoyed it. After that we went into our classroom and showed our Grandparents how to write on our Interactive Whiteboard. We shared some reading with them - we read to them and they read to us. We had our iPads and shared some of the apps we use to practise our skills.We showed them our displayed work on the walls. They were impressed.

Thank you to all the Grandparents who came and visited our class today.  We loved having you here and showing you some of the things we do at school.

I apologise for the quality of the photos. I will post them in a different way over the holidays.
Watch this space! (Hopefully these are better!)

 

  

  

Hi to my friends in Room 4

movie time

cake for breakfast!

cooking noodles in Singapore

dinner with the air hostess

More from Alex

Guten tag

It is still hot. I am on a train.

I am learning how to say words in different languages. I can say thank you in Russian. 

We saw pretty buildings in St Petersburg and we went inside them. It is in Russia. We learned about the Kings and Queens and there sisters and brothers. They had lots of make up things and crystals and jewellery and crowns. They had pretty dresses that drag on the floor and lots of pretty shoes. People came a long way to see them. 

I saw the Bronze Horseman statue with a horse and snake on it. Beside it was a girl with a real snake around her. It was a python, and curled around her neck. Dad held it and I touched it. 

We saw real diamonds - Romanov diamond and gold collection. 

We went on a plane to Germany. It didn't take long.  We saw the Berlin Wall and I had McDonalds. I got a new book in German from there!

Love from Alex

Rosie comes to visit

Today, Kate from Room 3, brought her pet  Rosie to show us. Rosie is a cute little black and white mouse. Kate told us Rosie loves to run around her wheel. It is very noisy.
Thank you Kate for sharing Rosie with us.

Fractions

We are using the interactive whiteboard to sort fractions.
It is a fun activity.

Hi from Alex

Dear Mrs Morgan and Room 4

We found the temperature hot too.  Our hotel was new Chinatown too.  I was so hot, at China town I got a new cotton dress to wear!  We went went on the Singapore Flyer too, it was fun. We saw over 40 boats in the harbour - it was a great view. We went on a double decker bus to sightsee. 

We slept at the airport for a little bit then flew to Moscow at 2am in the morning. I only slept a little bit on the plane. I watched Garfield, Smurfs, Little Einsteins, the Epic movie on my own tv screen.

In Moscow there are lots of old buildings. We saw inside cathedrals, and I stood in the Red Square. We saw St Basil's cathedral, it was beautiful. We went inside it, and I will send a postcard of it. I chose a Russian doll with 10 dolls to buy. It is purple and has glitter on it.  We have had a nice lady show us places, and walked by ourselves too. A nice air hostess called Weinshan, from Singapore who looked after us on a flight, joined us for tea last night. She is really nice and always has a smile. She is learning to speak more English, and is very good at speaking Mandarin. 

Tomorrow we are catching a train to St Petersburg.  It is 5pm here right now. It is 1am in New Zealand, so you will be in bed right now!  I have tried lots of new foods here. It is fun travelling with Grandma.  I am watching TV and people are speaking Russian. I don't understand it but it is still fun to see. 

From Alex :) 

Bring and Buy

Waiting for Customers!!!

Bring and Buy

Our wonderful School Council (made up of senior children) are organising a Bring and Buy stall on Wednesday. The proceeds will go towards supporting children who don't have a lot, have a special Christmas party.

We ask that our children look through their toys and recycle some things they don't need any more, then bring them to school to go on the sales table.

On Wednesday, the items for sale will be sold for either 50c or $1.

We will get to view earlier in the day before buying.

As in all sales, when it is our turn to buy, we may not get the item we want as someone else has already bought it.

Have you sorted out something to bring to school yet for this good cause? It is not too late.

Invitation to our Grandparents

We would like to invite you to our Grandparents afternoon at Normandale School.  It is on Wednesday 25 September, starting at 1p.m with a cup of tea however if you would like to have lunch with me at school please come with your sandwiches at 12.40p.m.

We would like to show you our classrooms and what we do at school. We will sing you some songs and dance for you.

Please let me know if you can come so I can tell my teacher.

We hope you will come

Homework

We would like to make a list of all the different names we call our Grandparents and Great Grandparents. Please write them down and bring them to school tomorrow.

Also, we would love to have photos of you with your grandparents. Can you please bring one to school. You could email Mrs Morgan and attach a copy if it was easier.
smorgan@normandale.school.nz 

grandparents questionnaire

Congratulations to Eva Marie's grandparents in South Africa, and to Abby's grandparents. They have sent us back the questionnaire responses.

We would love the rest of you to send the questions to your grandparents so we can see what differences there are between the things they did and the things we do.

Thank you Grace for your responses from your 2 grandmas, and Tess from Nonna.

It is interesting to read how things were different. 

Graham Braddock Art Workshop

Today we had an art workshop. Jane came and taught us how to draw really well. We drew a penguin and a bucket. It was fun. Our pictures look amazing.

the picture we were drawing

Jane telling us what to draw next

listening and watching

Jane's finished picture

our amazing pictures