On Thursday morning Creative George and Curious George visited Albury School. The Brothers had their picture taken with our Albury Bears, "Mr Cuddles" and "Principal Bear" and with some of the students. The George Brothers really enjoyed their day at Albury School and we will miss them.

Albury School

Albury School is participating in "My Greatest Feat 2010". The George Brothers both joined in for the day. It was estimated that they walked 2 - 3 thousand steps throughout the day Curious George spent time in Room 1 and sat in Constable Toni Hockings pocket during the session about our Role Models and learning about Right and Wrong.

George Brothers visit Opihi 4

Phew!! What a busy day the George Brothers had when they visited Opihi 4.



Creative George was very good at phonics!

We introduced Creative George to our word monsters.



Creative George was very good at finding the words we needed to use in our class story.

Guess what!! After play, Curious George and Creative George got to watch us do our "Where the Wild Things Are" puppet plays.

The George Brothers laughed and laughed when the Wild Things growled!!

We laughed so much because they were laughing!!

The George Brothers also got to meet some of our favourite story book characters.

You guessed it!!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and

Hairy MacLary!!

They had the best time together talking and gossiping.

After lunch the George Brothers helped us with our Poetry, presented the certificate to our Worker of the Week and then came with us to Discovery.

We love going to Discovery and had the most fantastic time. We even tried making some new clothes for the George Brothers!

We hope you have a good time at the next school George Brothers. We will follow your adventures on this blog.

From

Ms Wedlake and all the amazing children in Opihi 4

W2's first time with the George Brothers

They came to visit and we took photos with them. They played with the foam shapes with us, and then we went on a shape hunt around the school! We found lots of shapes hiding in the playground. We found some shapes in the bark area, in the new school playground, and we found some shapes in the classroom. Then the Curious Brothers helped us to draw our own pictures made from shapes.

Half - way day party with the George Brothers

The George Brothers came to Waitaki 1 on 27 April. It was a special day for our class because it was the 50th day of school. We have been counting the days of school because when we get to 100 days of school, we are going to have a party. While we are counting days of school, we are getting better about understanding place value.

Curious George was so curious that he went out to the cloak bay. We had to stop what we were doing to go and find him. He had hidden in one of the cubbies. We think he ate a packet of chips and left the packet behind. We weren't so happy about that.

To celebrate our 50th day we got to do fun stuff. At maths time we coloured in a 100s chart - half in one colour, and half in a second colour. We also estimated how many popcorn kernels were in a half a cup, then we popped it and ate it! Yum!

We made blue jelly and filled our cups half way. In the jelly was a lolly fish, because we have been studying the ocean. Yum, yum, yum!!! You won't believe it - the lolly fish were half one colour and half another!

During literacy time there was a list on the board of activities that we could choose. One of them was to write 50 words from around the room. Some people tried to write a story that was exactly 50 words long. We could also read 50 pages in a book.

In the afternoon we did some art. We created new tide pool creatures that were half one animal and half another. Zach made a crabtuli which was half crab and half sea tulip. Amy made a sea cranemone - half crab and half sea anemone. Finally, we ate our jelly! We had a class photo with the George Brothers eating our jelly. Just then the bell rang. We said goodbye to the George Brothers.

Curious and Creative George had a very busy day with Rangitata 2 at Pleasant Point Prmary. First thing in the morning was a quick reading recovery lesson followed by joining the whole Rangitata 2 class. The students in Rangitata 2 were so excited to meet their new classmates. They were eager to include them in everything they did and to show them what they had been learning. They popped outside to join the class in a performance of Tutira Mai Nga Iwi. This proved challenging for Curious and Creative George as they didn't know all the actions. They gave it their best shot anyway.

Rangitata 2 has been using ICT integrated into their English learning to produce comics. The class were desperate to share these with the George bros. The George brothers were captivated by what the class had been doing. They said they want Danny to make comics with them in it!

Rangitata enjoyed their day with the George brothers and wish them well on their journey, Ka kite Curious and Creative George!

George Brothers at The Kid's ICT Expo

The Brothers have enjoyed helping set up with the teachers this morning and are very much looking forward t being a part of the expo this afternoon.

It's going to be great fun showing the community what they have learnt with the students from the Ashburton ICTPD Cluster. They will post a few more blog entries about it soon.

George Brothers provide advice in Kowhai...

The George Brothers have been getting curious and creative in art this week with Kowhai. We have been looking at myths in our writing and space as our topic. So for art we created the two and were creating mythical suns.
Curious and Creative have been whispering in our ears about how we could design and make our mythical Maori suns and what we could add to make them better. They have been busy helping us by giving us advice whether we wanted it or not; they think that they know best (especially Creative)! Curious and Creative helped us through all the steps, even the tricky part with the black sticky PVA glue which we put around the outsides of our suns.
They saw all the fun that we were having working with pastels that they decided that giving advice was not as fun as trying it out; so they had a go too.

Curious and Creative thought that they could make a mythical moon to go with our suns...

But to us it looks like a banana.

What do you think?

Another Space Adventure - Room 3 Tinwald School

After visiting the moon with the astronauts in Room 4 Curious George was really keen to go even further out into space. So off he went next door to persuade the children of Room 3 to let him try out their newly built space rocket.

Creative George had to work all night to develop new engines and some top secret fuel that would take them all the way to Saturn and back.

On the way they stopped breifly at a space station to fix the broken telescope.

They were both so excited when they got to take a space walk out near Jupiter and Saturn. Curious George was so tired he slept all the way home. Creative George hardly slept at all because his head was full of ideas for bigger better rockets that would take him even further out into space on his next trip.

'Creative Shows Musical Talents'

Today Creative was very fortunate to join in a singing workshop with specialist singing teacher Mrs Jo Castelow. Creative sat alongside the Borough choir members and listened really carefully, taking in all the expert skills and drills that Mrs Castelow was teaching the students.

It turns out that he's got a fabulous voice (just like his Dad) and that he really loves singing. (He mostly sings in the shower.)

Being the creative monkey that he is, we're sure he'll be keen to put his talent to good use.

Here's hoping there's a part for him in a school musical this year!