27th August

We won Henry the Hippo for a week because we worked together as a class.  Ihu one one manaakia tangata.  We are trying to practise athletics because we are having a Sport's Day soon.  The weather has been going crazy, sometimes cold and rainy and sometimes hot and sunny.  We had Maths in the Hall, all the middle team, to practise very fast adding and subtracting and some groups did multiplication too.  We still have had some sickness so we keep practising coughing into our elbows.  Mr Abraham is away this week but when he comes back he is with us for the last 3 weeks of the term.  When Mrs Phillips is away we get Mrs Faulkner to look after us.  Mrs King can't do it as she is in R22 now.  We have a new Cultural Swap it is in R16 with Mrs Spencer and it is maori.

Cross Country

Yesterday we had our cross country.  We got a number on our hand when we finished to show where we came.  The Y2's did one lap and the Y3's did two laps.  There were four hay bale jumps.  Everyone had a great time and we were well behaved.  We have started the School of Fitness.  We do exercises and will go every second week.  On Friday we will start Term 3 Electives.  We had 13 activities and we got four choices.  today we will find out which group we are in.  We have published our holiday stories.  You can come into R17 to read them.  We have been watching the Olympics and at the moment we have got eight medals.  We keep track of them on our chart.  In our class we have had some illnesses. One of them was 'flu (influenza).  Seven children were away for all of last week and on two days 10 children were away.  most of us are still coughing but we know how to cough into our elbow and how to wash and dry our hands to kill as many germs as possible.  Caleb has gone back to Australia with his family.  We will miss his smiley face, so we are emailing him.