Wedding photo invite

Merry Christmas Everyone,

I hope that you are all enjoying your holidays so far and that Santa has come to visit your house too!

On January the 24th I will be getting married. I know that many of you have received home the invitation to come and meet me at Matakana School for a group photo with all the kids, but just to double check that everyone has received this note I wanted to put it up on here also.

Hope that you can make it!

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

Home Learning Challenges

Hi Everyone,

The deadline for the home learning challenges was last week and so far the children whose booklets I have received and noted down to receive a medal are:

• Joel
• Harry
• Zachary
• Poppy
• Beau
• Eva
• Logan
• Jane
• Louis
• Ruby 
• Frankie
• Luka
• Matai
• Shay 
• Bekele

If your child's name isn't on this list and they have completed 6 home learning challenges I have simply not seen their booklet to sign them off and put them on the list. 

If this applies to your child, please e-mail me before Friday as that is the deadline for teachers to give the names to Mel Bentley and I will pop their names on.

Kind Regards, 

Joy Kraan

Friday Assembly

Hi Everyone,

Please remember to bring a colourful t-shirt and dark coloured shorts/tights for our assembly on Friday.

If these could come to school in a named plastic bag before Friday then we know we are organised for assembly.

Ben, Bekele and Rudi will need to have a dark coloured t-shirt and dark coloured shorts because they are the pests in our play.

I also need 7 more buckets, so anyone that has a spare bucket they could bring in please do otherwise those children who don't have buckets won't be able to join in.

The following children still need to bring in buckets, Poppy, Jade, Bekele, Beau, Ben and Ollie.

Cheers,
Joy

Little yellow digger show

On Wednesday the 24th of September, the junior syndicate are very lucky to be going to the little yellow digger show! What a treat!

There are 4 slots allocated for parent helpers to come along to that with us. We currently have only one parent helper. If we could have 3 more from Room 3 that would be great!

You can let Pam, Kate or myself know whether you are interested!

Cheers,
Joy

Room 3 Assembly Week 9

Hi Everyone,

Today I am sending home the scripts for those children who need to practise what they are saying at assembly next week.

The children that will be getting home a script are:

• Ben
• Rudi
• Ollie
• Poppy
• Tawera
• Jade
• Zachary
• Eva
• Bekele
• Logan

Please encourage them to read it through a couple of time this weekend. We will be having a practise every day next week in preparation for Friday.

The children are very excited to perform, so we look forward to you coming along on Friday.

Costumes for the play

The pests (Bekele, Ben and Rudi)
Please could they bring a dark coloured top and shorts.

The native birds
Please could they bring bright coloured t-shirts and bright tights/shorts.

Next week we have a guest speaker coming to talk to the children about his job as a park ranger and he will also give our park ranger (Logan some things to wear/use for his costume).

Cheers,
Joy

t-shirt reminder for Wednesday

Hi Everyone,

For the purpose of filming our flight sequence on Wednesday, please remember to bring a dark t-shirt (black or navy blue) to school.

The bird costumes are looking awesome!!! The children are going to have a lot of fun with this assembly!

Thanks to Vicky and all the parents for the amazing help in making and organising all of this!

Kind Regards,
Joy Kraan

Getting rid of ads on YouTube videos

Hi Everyone,

A few of you asked me to put this useful website onto the blog to share with everyone.

If you too are annoyed by ads on YouTube both before and after video clips and you would also like to get rid of YouTube's suggestions for video clips this website gets rid of it all.

The website is called http://safeshare.tv/

This is how you create a safe link...

1. Copy the YouTube's URL (the address in your search bar, looks something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GjIJqKsI4I)

2. Go to http://safeshare.tv/

3. Paste the youtube link into the bar and click on "create safe link"

4. It will then take you to your YouTube video free from any ads!

Happy viewing!