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The Jubilee Fair!

30th August 2010

I had been counting down to the Fair for weeks and then suddenly on Saturday when the time to go finally arrived, I decided to melt down. I think that I just got a little overwhelmed at everything that would be going on that day because once we were there and the Grade 1 Performance was over, I settled down just fine. The performance went quite well though, because I'm so tall, I was right at the back and a bit difficult to see. We did a great job though and were all keen to line up for our High 5 from fabulous Mr Wilkins when the show was done and dusted!

We had an absolutely massive day and had a huge amount of fun. I got to play on a lot of the rides with Sammie, my best friend, Stephen and a couple of other pals as well. I was quite proud of my efforts on the Superslide, bragging to anyone who would listen that I went down at least 20 times. (I was really making sure Mama & Dada got value for their ride band purchase!)



The Grade 1 Cake Stall (which I'd helped Mama bake for) was sold out super quickly and we raised a fabulous amount of money from it.


I was also quite proud to show everyone my artwork which was on display in the Junior School Art Show. Our grade exhibited the aboriginal dot point paintings we did throughout Term 1 when we studied Australia. We also exhibited our pinch pots which we finished just a few weeks ago.


By Saturday night I was absolutely trashed but had a sensational day. I was glad for a nice quiet day on Sunday - we had some lunch with Granny andd then spent the afternoon setting up my ant farm. Despite quite a thorough search of our garden, we couldn't find any ants...... (thanks Amalgamated). So, the ant farm awaits completion next weekend!!!

Pirate Pete

18th August 2010

Pirate Pete is our classroom toy who visits a class member for a week. We have to entertain Pirate Pete, take him to our activities and then report back to the class on what he did. Here's what Pirate Pete enjoyed during his week with The Long Family.

Pirate Pete came to my house this week. He drew a ship and learnt how to write his name. Pirate Pete is a good swimmer because while I was doing one of my breathing arms, I saw him dive to get the colourful sticks.

While I was at school, Pirate Pete played chess against Seal, the best teddy player at chess. He won two games and lost one. He tied one game. Theses are the points 2.5-1.5. Pirate Pete helped me open a restaurant. We called it "The Jolly Roger Restaurant". He helped me cook Gnocchi, Pea and Ham soup, Rosemary bread and chocolate mud cake. He loves cooking. We made dinner for my cousins and their Mum and Dad. It was for my Auntie Kath's birthday. Pirate Pete loved eating the chocolate cake.








Mind the Gap!!!

2nd August 2010

After many days of dangling by a thread, my first top tooth has fallen out!!! I've been quite concerned for a couple of days now that it was going to fall out and I'd not notice and swallow it, so I was quite delighted when at dinner time I felt a funny texture in my corn and pulled out what I thought was a very crunchy kernel indeed!

My beautiful baby tooth was in my hot little hand and, in it's place, a big gummy gap.

The gap is a new look for me because when my bottom teeth fell out, my shark teeth were already well in place meaning there was no visible gap.


I'm off to school tomorrow ready to show my gap off to Mr Wilkins so he can enter my name on the all important 1 Red Tooth Chart!!!



What's Going On?

26th July 2010

Holiday complete - check.
Rested - check.
Eager to get back to school - check, check, check!!!

Not a huge amount has been happening since Term 3 commenced. I seem to have been making my way up to the Grade 2 classroom more and more this term though (Dada says it's "acceleration by stealth") which I love. Mama is aware that we only have 6 more months of the wonderful Mr Wilkins left and we're trying to lap up as much of his fantastic teacherness while we can!

Another exciting addition to my repertoire this term is the commencement of my piano lessons. I started piano with Miss Worthy at school last week and, so far, I'm loving it. I've been very eager to do my 10 minutes practice every day and have attempted to pass my newfound knowledge on to Sammie but he isn't entirely the most compliant student.


Finally, the other big news so far this term has been Athletics Day which was held last Friday. I competed in my race and did a great job, coming 4th. I had a ball after the races at the mini olympics with the bean bag toss, the relay and the sack races. Mr Wilkins got into the spirit of things by donning a green sparkly wig for the occassion which all of us Klein House kids loved - our house colour is green! The real excitement of the day though belonged to my best friend, Stephen. Stephen is a tiny little guy who is hugely funny and whose company I just love.

He is not, however, the most athletic child you've ever come across (who am I to talk!). On the day of the carnival Stephen didn't want to come to school because he was afraid he would run last. Despite his tears, his Mum made him come and, delightfully, Stephen finished 3rd in his race!!!. It was a teary moment for his Mum, my Mama and him. We're all very proud of him.


Glamorous Grandmothers!

20th July 2010

In the last week of Term 2 I was lucky enough to have Granny & Nanna come along to my classroom for Grandparents Day. Even luckier, we've discovered that we're all now famous as our photo appeared in the latest edition of the school Gazette!!! It's my first appearance in the gazette and, thankfully, I look pretty good. Granny looks great too (except for the streamer half covering her face!) and Nanna... well, even she admits it wasn't her best pose! Still, any publicity is good publicity!