The Wicked Fairy phoned Mrs Kruijer

Oh dear, Mrs Kruijer got a very angry phone call at 5 o'clock (5 am) yesterday morning! You know how much the Wicked Fairy does not like children especially after Hansel and Gretel nibbled on the gingerbread cottage and then shoved the defenceless witch into her own oven! Well, she was very upset because the children had done so much work researching, writing and acting about using manners but they were not remembering to use them all the time. Especially when Mrs Western took them for a Health Lesson about being a good friend this week! Everyone had forgotten their manners! The class thought we had better do something and so we are writing instructions about how to use good manners.

Later in the day we had a visit from Mr Turrell (DP) and he had a very important message from the Good Fairy. She had emailed Mr Turrell and told him to take a look at Room 23's blog because they had been doing so much wonderful work learning about manners. So Mr Turrell thought he would pop in to share this with Room 23. He told us we were a wonderful class and we used our best manners when he visited. That was really good news! We hope the Fairy Godmother will tell the Wicked Witch!

We are a little worried because the Big Bad Wolf is visiting the Three Little Pigs next week. We must get our manners instructions written before he goes!

Parents
Using the inquiry model through drama, art and literacy we have extended the manners theme through to using the traditional Fairy Tales because of the use of messages throughout the stories. If you some time free Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons to read your favourite Fairy Tale you are welcome to come into the class. It will give the children an opportunity to use their manners too!
We are also looking at geometry in maths and through that we will explore the artist Picassso and Maori colours. The children are investigating mask making for the Three Little Pigs play and will look at integrating all these ideas together. Masks from home are welcome as examples. The end product will be a paper mache mask. Our work afternoons on the masks will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Please come in if you can :)

Homework
Click on this wiki link
You will be taken to our continuous story using spelling words.