During the last two days of swimming there were Learning Commitment interviews after school. These gave the children, parents and teacher a chance to think about strengths and possible goals for the first part of the year. I enjoyed talking first to the children about their strengths and then to the parents about strengths and goals and finally with the children again to discuss the goals set with the help of parents. (Was that as confusing to read as it seemed to be when I wrote it??)
On Friday March 13th we had fun making puppy masks and inventing games with balloons. It was great! Do you recognise any of the puppies in the picture?
Last week we were back into normal classroom routines. We also had College teachers watching us do Mathematics. Another group came to talk to us about what we know about numbers. They will be back on April 9th to teach us something about numbers, based on what we already know.
It was fun going to Chipmunks on Sunday and seeing lots of Kindle 2 children at a going away party for Kaya. She is going to Tonga for a holiday and then back to Japan. We hope to keep in touch with her by Skype and through this blog. That big slide was very tempting, I really wanted to have a turn.
This week we had a holiday on Monday for Otago Anniversary Day. Our College teachers, Miss Kerr and Mr Matheson will be with us every day for two weeks. We also have some Japanese visitors in the school. They are from the Gifu area. They will be visiting classrooms and teaching us a little bit of Japanese.
Today all of the Kindle 2 children were given a note about the blog. Now families will be able to access it and read about what we are doing. We have already had our first comment from a parent - Thank You.
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