Snow Day Info

Thanks to all our parents for their patience and understanding over the last few days regarding school closure and a later start time. The decision to close schools is made in consultation with the Police and Met Service judging the risk of not being able to provide staff for a full day. Decisions are made collectively for all Dunedin primary schools as soon as possible in the day. Please note that there will be no Georgies before school care on days when there is a 10.00am start. Parents are reminded of the following ways to check on possible school closure:

1. Our school website (www.georgestreet.school.nz) will have the most up-to-date information about possible school closure due to weather conditions. Look for this information on the right-hand side of our home page.
   
2. Local radio stations such as Radio Dunedin 99.8FM or MORE FM 97.4FM will broadcast if schools are to open at 10.00am or remain closed for the day.
   

3. If all else fails, please call or text the school mobile number provided on our main school answerphone message (021 262 9919).

Please note that if the snowfall is light and roads are safe, school will be open as usual. If snow falls during a school day, children will not be sent home early. We will close at the usual time of 3pm. However, if parents or caregivers wish to collect their children before 3pm, that is quite acceptable. Please let the classroom teacher know before taking your child. 

What's been happening in Room 3?

No one came to school on Monday because it was a snow day!
Lots of us played in the snow at home. We made snowmen and had snowball fights. Some of us watched movies and others drank hot chocolate. It was a very fun day.

On Tuesday we had some performers come to school. They performed a show called RAPunzel.
We enjoyed it because it was really funny!

Today (Friday) we had lots of fun at discovery. Our favourite things to do were Lego, making cucumber sandwiches, colouring in corgis and making tiaras (we were celebrating the Queens birthday).

The teachers decided to dress up to celebrate the Queens birthday, we think they looked fabulous. Here is Miss Potter dressed as a princess. 

Miss Potter was so happy and surprised when she came into Room 3 after morning tea today. ALL the children were sitting nice and quietly in a circle, ready to learn. She thinks we are STARS!

Check out our excited faces! 

We are excited because we have had 1000 views on our blog!!

On Friday Fonterra shouted all the children and teachers a free lunch to celebrate the first birthday of their Milk in Schools programme. We all got to eat a delicious Pita Pit for lunch. 

The Highlanders also came to celebrate with us and we got to watch them have a milk folding competition. It was a really exciting day! There were milk tankers, video cameras, and lots of cheering and clapping. 

Incase you're not sure, we are all chanting Highlanders, Highlanders!

SNOW DAY - SCHOOL CLOSED

GSNS is closed today (Monday 26th May) due to snow and dangerous road conditions.
Have fun in the snow. You might like to take some photos of you playing in the snow to share with the class.

See you tomorrow,

Miss Potter

A Note From Miss Potter

Hello Room 3 Parents & Family Members,

In Room 3 we love sharing our learning on our blog.
We love taking photos of our learning and seeing it on our blog.
We love reading back over the posts on our blog.

What would make our blog even more fantastic would be if parents, other family members, and even the Room 3 children commented on our posts when they read them at home. This will give the children a real, live audience for sharing their learning.

We will be sure to reply to your comments! Friday is usually our 'blog update' day. But if we have spare time throughout the week we will post some of the extra exciting things we have been doing, or have a read through all the wonderful comments we will be receiving soon...

Commenting is easy:

• At the bottom of each post it will say "no comments" or "1 comment", "2 comments" etc.
• Click on this link and it will take you to a text box.
• Write your comment and then click on the drop down box beneath. If you have a google account you can comment through that. If you don't have a Google account, simply click on "name/URL", type in your name and click continue. 
• Lastly click on the big, blue 'publish' button.

I am more than happy to show you how to send a comment if you are still unsure, just come in and ask and I will show you on our classroom computer.

Thanks so much to the following mums who have commented on our blog recently. 

Poppy's Mum

Alexis' Mum

 

Oakley's Mum




Thanks for all your support,

Sarah

Poppy's Creation

Poppy worked really hard to create Dr Coackroach out of play dough. She spent over an hour trying to make him look exactly right. We think she did a great job!
Have a look below to see how well she did.

Face Painting

Some of the children were lucky enough to be chosen to have their faces painted for the TV channel ZooMoo.

Can you guess what animals they are?

Meeting Baby Thomas

Alexis bought his new baby brother into Room 3 this week.

His name is Thomas, we think he is really cute, very small and adorable.

Here is a photo of him.

The First Day of Discovery

Today we had our first day of discovery. It was so much fun! We were focusing on showing respect to each other and the equipment in the classrooms. We had to make sure we were sensible and looked after the things we used. We also had to work hard to tidy up when we were finished.
There were so many exciting things to choose from. Dress ups, iPads, making and creating, woodwork, shops, dinosaurs, castle and knights, Lego, making books, making cards, making bookmarks and so much more!
Here are the things we enjoyed the most:

Building a plane - Brooke
Making bookmarks - Maddie
Playing with the shop - Samara
Building Lego and showing it to Miss Potter - Alexis
Playing on the iPad and making things - Zach
Playing with the dinosaurs in Kindle 1 - Sam
Building a big plane out of wood - Poppy
Playing with the army people - Ollie
Drawing - Jorja
Making a 't' out of wood and playing with the knights and the castle - Jacob
Playing with the playdough - Tara
Going on the iPads and making a bookmark - Nicholas
Going on the iPads and playing with the Lego - Wills
Playing with the knights - Tan An
Drawing - Brody
Playing dress ups - Layla-Belle
Everything - Elise
Building a train track in Kindle 2 - Samuel
Dressing up in Kindle 2 and playing in the house - Safira

 Making bookmarks 

 On the iPads

 Making books

 iPads

 Lego creations 

 Lego creations

 Book making

 Following Youtube instructions on how to draw a fox

 More Lego

 Shops 

 Dinosaurs in Kindle 1

 Sam found a meteor 

 Dress ups 

 Woodwork 

 Hannah outside at the construction table