Back to school

Did I mention that I am only working 8 days a fortnight now? Thought so...but it really is worth mentioning regularly. It means that I have the time to hang out at school with the girls and I did a fair amount of that last week. On Wednesday Freya's class did a theatrical adaptation of 'Pete the Sheep' by Jackie French for the whole school assembly. They hosted a morning tea for the parents afterwards where we got to look at all the work they've been up to this term. Freya (gifted and talented, you know!) has been doing fabulously in everything!

Freya is the middle sheep-dog

Then it was over to Esther's pre-primary class to do some parent-helping. They were building a newspaper tower to take on the rest of the school. The p-ps took 5 minutes to create their edifice, the other classes had been working on their cloud-busters for days. It was a jolly gathering in the undercover area:

It took 5 minutes to build, can you tell?



Back to class to construct another skyscraper!

Friday was the last day of Literacy Week and "dress up as your favourite book character" day. Freya wanted to be Harry Potter so she borrowed a cloak, picked up a stick-wand, fashioned a pair of glasses from 3 black pipe cleaners and I drew a scar on her forehead with purple eyeliner. Esther was the Worst Witch/ Professor McGonegall/ Room on a Broom. We utilised the cute witch outfit that Grandma and G sent her 2 years ago. Some of the parents kids had done a great job, there was a fantastic Pippi Longstocking and an uber-cute Where's Wally? I do wonder whether clonetroopers and Buzz Lightyear are characters from literature...

There were a few witches!