Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The George Brothers visit Room 1 and 2!!!!!!!!!

We thoroughly enjoyed having the George brothers join us for PMP. They had lots of fun skipping, cross-crawling, throwing and catching balls, balancing and playing the memory card game. They especially enjoyed crawling through the dark tunnels with us.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

St Andrews School Kapahaka



The George Brothers have joined the Kapahaka group at St Andrews. They will be having their first performance at the Variety Show. Kia Kaha.

George Brothers in Kiwiana Concert


The George Brothers became warriors in Room 4's Kiwiana concert item about a taniwha who learned to fly.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

George Brothers Enjoy Hanging Out At St Andrews School

The George Brothers have been enjoying participating in the Kiwiana Variety Show practices that St Andrews School has been busy doing! They especially like the singing!




The George Brothers have been working with Room 5 to find out all about the earthquake on Saturday. They're amazed at all the destruction it caused and feel lucky to be in Timaru and not Christchurch!


They have been a little scared from all the aftershocks though and have kept close to their Room 5 friends.



Kiwi Can and Integrity

A couple of weeks ago Room 3 at Barton Rural were so glad when Curious and Creative joined them at Kiwi Can. Ritchie and Dom were working with the children to understand how to use integrity when someone is not being included in a game. Ritchie and Dom were really happy when Room 3 included Curious and Creative in the class game.

We hear Creative and Curious are off to visit another school now. We hope you have lots of fun there and the children there show integrity.
From everyone in Room 3 at Barton Rural School




Monday, September 6, 2010

St Andrews Room 3
The George's talking with Room 3 about the terrible earthquake that struck on Saturday morning. They feel really sorry for all the people that have suffered loses. They are relieved no one was killed during the earthquake. They think maybe they need to get a survival kit organised at their own homes.


George Brothers at St Andrews

The georges loved doing papier mache with Room Three. Sorry about the mess but they couldn't resist getting into the lovely ooey gooey glue. Shame they ripped up todays Press for their work!!!!!


The brothers were enjoying the whole school rehersal for our performance at the end of term.






The brothers arrivied las week but went into hiding. On Monday morning they were found in the library sitting on books that had shifted in the earthquake. Luckily nothing was damaged.









Friday, August 27, 2010

Georges Brothers 'Battle'

Here are the George brothers playing in the final for the Mancala cup. At half time they went to get a nice drink. Very Exciting!!!

Its all down to the players' final moves!

From
Room 6
Barton Bural School

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

George Brothers see the stars.


On Monday the 23 August the George brothers went to see the stars. No they did not go to the moon on a spaceship but the Science Alive Star Dome visited Barton Rural School. Creative and Curious visited with Room 4 and 5. At first they were a bit hesistant to go inside the dome as it was very dark and they had to go through a tight tunnel to get inside.





Once inside they learnt about constellations, galaxies, the moon and all the planets. They saw the moon as we see it in the night sky and the phase it is in at the moment, the Waxing Gibbous. They were especially interested in the constellation Orion. Creative thought he looked very similiar to Orion, a big, strong hunter. The brothers had a lot of fun inside the dome but were thankful to eventually get outside into the daylight.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The George Brothers visit Room 4 at SHPS

Creative and Curious George were excited to be in Room 4, but they weren't too keen to go outside for fitness. The students told them that it wasn't THAT cold and they needed to stop complaining!
The George brothers came to maths in Room 4. Creative George got a turn on the interactive whiteboard with the maths kids. He had lots of fun. He thinks it's easy because the question was: half of sixteen.

In writing we are working very hard on our own Myths and Legends books. Curious George and Creative George were very impressed with them. They kept an eye on us and helped us edit our work and type onto the computer. They even said they want to come back and read our picture books when we are finished.
Some students are preparing for the Gymnastics festival at the moment. The George brothers enjoyed watching them and even tried to join in. We were worried about them getting injured, but they stretched first and seemed to be ok. (We think Curious George got a bit scared on the beam - he doesn't like heights much!)
We had a fantastic day with the George brothers and look forward to seeing what they get up to in other classes around the region.