Some stories from today!

Today James, Stacey and Logan worked really hard on their writing! They copied their stories from their books onto the blog.

Me and dad went to the farm and we feed the cattle and the sheep as well at grandpas place and I came to grandpas and I saw grandma.
By James Sauer

The swimming pool at ashburton was really really hot. I went  to KFC or McDonald's and If  i went
McDonald's I would have a cheese burger.
By Stacey Hayes

I went  to the Shooting and I got two ducks.
By Logan glass

My mum is good at  gardening     And She.   is cool   So   Am. I.  By.  ANNALISE (Annalise wrote this straight onto the iPad with no help)

Cross Country

Please remember to send your Cross Country permission slips to school with your child as they are DUE tomorrow. Thanks! :)

Last Day of Term

Wow! What an amazing, action packed Term 1 it has been! Mrs P and I are so proud of how all of you have worked over the past 11 weeks! We hope you have a fantastic and well deserved break and we look forward to seeing all of your beautiful faces in Term 2! :) 

ANZAC DAY LEARNING

Today we had a big day of learning all about ANZAC day. First we had some sharing about special people in our lives that have been in the Army or fought in WWI/WWII. We worked in our cooperative groups and moved around different stations. We coloured in pictures, wrote stories, baked ANZAC biscuits, painted poppies, made poppies and read poems. We were lucky enough to have some of the year 6 girls and Rachel come and help us! 

Visiting Hannah's Workshop

Today we were incredibly lucky to get to go and visit Hannah's (Gus's mum) workshop! We looked at all of the amazing things she has been making. We also looked at the materials she used to make her structures. Thanks so much for letting us visit you Hannah, we were truely blown away by your talent!!

Abbey Highland Dancing

Elgregoe Stories

I liked when Elgregoe made the Cheetah sing inside the box. It was so funny. I liked his tricks they were cool as. That was my favourite part.
By Cordell Keepa

Elgregoe is a magician and he made a bird come out of a picture. I really like him because it sounded like the Cheetah made the noise.
By James Sauer

I saw Elgregoe on the stage. He was very funny and amazing! My favourite was the Cheetah. He sung a song and he did it very loud. I laughed. Elgregoe lit a fire and a bird came out of the fire. It was a real bird, not a toy.
By May McCaw

Elgregoe had a bunny with red eyes and a parrot. It was super funny as well as very fun. I really liked doing the traffic light stuff.
By Zoe Robertson

I liked it when Elgregoe made the paper turn into money and made the money turn into a bunny.
By Jacob Hallenstein

Over Worked!

Wow!! We had such a busy day yesterday

We have been SUPER busy in Rokeby and Mitcham lately! Here are some pictures of what we got up to yesterday! Rokeby was really lucky and got to visit the Junior Hub in the morning to do lots of fun learning! 

Mr Murphy had a turn in the Dizzy Giddy!

Using the Numicon shapes in the play dough, then we counted how many dots we had!

Gus M and Isaac B making patterns and shapes with the rods. 

Making play dough 'cookies' and counting how many 'chocolate chips' we put on. 

Playing maths games on the iPads.

Writing numbers on the court with chalk. 

Stacey and Rylan helping each other write the numbers up to 100!

EXPO Thanks

A huge thank you to all of our wonderful parents who helped and supported the Rokeby/Mitcham Children and Kelsie and I to get things organised for the EXPO. It was fantastic and we really appreciated it!!

The children were delighted to see that all of our items (bar the pencils which we will use in the class) sold and we even have people who want us to make more hair ties.  It was lovely to see so many of the MPS students sporting the black and red hair ties at school yesterday and today.

The cake walk was a huge success.  THANK YOU to the mums who made the "Very Fancy Cakes" for this.  WOW they looked stunning and there was heaps of positive feedback from people at the Expo.  Many people said we should have had more cakes.

Kelsie and I are very proud of our students who planned, organised and worked very hard on our stall and activities.  One of the main objectives of having the Expo was that the students had ownership of it. Our students did :-).  

Feedback (both positive and negative) on all aspects of the Expo is welcome.  No doubt there are things that we could do better.

So, well done Rokeby/Mitcham Monkeys you are all MPS STARS!!!!!