Week Two Term Two

 Joel's 3/4 singing class held outside this week.

 View of singing from the fire escape on the second floor.

 ANZAC Day assembly with the French and Australian flags.

 Don and Shawna talking to the grade 3/4's about problems with trading Pokemon cards.

Grade 3/4 sport on Friday. Half the field is soccer and the other half is footie.

April 18^th - 22^nd.

2^nd Week of Term 2

Happy 30^th Birthday to Danny on the 21^st!

Another week of school that passed by very quickly. On Wednesday we had picture day and because the photographers were in the room we usually use for grade 3/4 singing, we did it outside, which was interesting.

On Friday we had an assembly for Anzac Day which is actually on this holiday Monday. It stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps and marks the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces in the first world war. It was their coming of age as it were. They fought at Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915, and it was a long drawn out battle fought over a beach head. I went to the Gallipoli Museum in New Zealand and that's where I learned that 90% of New Zealand troops and 50% of the Australian troops were lost. This day is more important and celebrated more patriotically here than Remembrance Day. So I have a three weekend to go on another road trip.

In the afternoon we had the grade 3/4 sport class for two hours. First we gathered to talk to all the grade 3/4 kids about trading, selling, buying and stealing Pokemon cards. Unlike Lescon, they do not ban them here because they realize this is something that the non atheletic kids like to do at recess. Unfortunately some big kids take advantage of little kids and apparently one kid stole money from mom to buy a card from some other kid. Then we had five activities going on outside on a rotation basis: soccer, Australian football, netball, fitness class and a games activity for 160 kids.

Other than that, we had all the usual class and teaching lessons. I rode to school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and relaxed at home in the evenings. I have started a new book that Maurene gave me, about the life of an Australian pioneer from the early 1900's. He lived in rural Australia and eventually served at Gallipoli.