Wooly Hat Day

Good afternoon,

Seeing as Wednesday was the shortest day of 2017, most of the school came to, well, school, wearing a wooly hat...

And a fine bunch they looked too!

Happy Holidays Friday

Good afternoon,

And happy holidays!

Funday Friday

Good afternoon,

Another fun day was had here in the Batten Team. For example, I introduced a new app from my phone - Story Cubes.


So, I rolled the dice (on my phone), screen shotted the result...

...bluetooth'd the file to my computer and then sent it straight to the children's Literacy folder, so that the children could get into groups of three or four and make up a story between them. Orally.

To further that, 500 points is offered to each child who uses this image, pastes it into a Google Doc and writes a small story using these cubes.

:-)

(Postscript - Here's Gabrielle's story from...three days hence?)

During lunch, the choir practiced ...


...for a performance thereof at next week's assembly. Please join us.

Have a good weekend,

Mr Grant

Commemoration Monday

Good evening,

This lunch time, at around 12:51 we joined Hoon Hay School for a commemoration service to mark the 5 year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake....

...around the tree that we planted...

...four years ago today.

It was a lovely service.

And this...


Mr Grant

First Day...

...what's the opposite of blues? Reds?

Anyhow,

Good afternoon,

Today the Batten Team gathered...

...galloped...

...and Googled co-operatively.

Much of the same will be happening tomorrow.

Mr Grant