"Let's see the lucky winners of the eggs."
Camp talk.
Three of my boys who brought their fathers to the Father's Day Breakfast.
There were tables of food....
and coffee.
There was also a Father's Day Store.
Dodgeball played outside.
Monday,
August 29 to September 2nd
One
of the different things this school does is award six packs of eggs
laid by the school chickens to lucky winners during Monday morning
assemblies.
This
week for our grade team planning time and for a period during the
week, we were all busy getting organized for camp. We collated all
the medical forms for the kids going to camp, completed a camp
booklet for each student that tells them their room assignments, room
mates and work groups, and we had a meeting with all the attending
students to tell them last minute information and to answer any
outstanding questions. They are getting very excited.
On Thursday evening the grade 3/4 team went out for our end of term dinner. Don, Libby, Carol, Claire, Ann-Cecil and her husband and I. Shauna and Emily couldn't make it. We went to a Greek restaurant and had a drink and a good meal and lots of school chat.
On Friday after school Crystelle called a singing practice and a group of us went to the usual haunt Treetop Pub. Leora, Anne, Anna, Claire, Anne-Cecil, Caroline, Paul and I had a couple of drinks before heading home after school. Leora was telling me how she befriended Maurene's previous exchange family and became very good friends with them because they had kids that were the same age as her's and attended the same school. They saw a lot of each other and became very good friends.
On Thursday evening the grade 3/4 team went out for our end of term dinner. Don, Libby, Carol, Claire, Ann-Cecil and her husband and I. Shauna and Emily couldn't make it. We went to a Greek restaurant and had a drink and a good meal and lots of school chat.
On Friday after school Crystelle called a singing practice and a group of us went to the usual haunt Treetop Pub. Leora, Anne, Anna, Claire, Anne-Cecil, Caroline, Paul and I had a couple of drinks before heading home after school. Leora was telling me how she befriended Maurene's previous exchange family and became very good friends with them because they had kids that were the same age as her's and attended the same school. They saw a lot of each other and became very good friends.
On
Sunday it will be Father's Day here in Australia. Mother's Day is the
same date, but for some unexplained reason Father's Day is in
September. On Friday morning the school council organized a breakfast
for all fathers, before school, that was very well attended. When I
went down to check it out it was lined up out the door. Inside there
were booths of coffee, croissants, fruit and other snacks. There
seemed to be a lot of community spirit in the event.
During
the day, the school council had also organized a Father's Day Shop
where the students could buy gifts for the father and have them
wrapped. It looked like they were purchased at the dollar store and
then resold to the students as a fundraiser for the school.
And
for sport today, now that the track and field events are finished, we
set up some new activities. There was t-ball, basketball and
dodgeball. I never liked dodgeball and don't play it at home because
of the potential picking on, hurting and cheating that this game
inspires. I was interested to see if it went any better at this
school and was not surprised that it didn't. Although most students play fairly, there are always a few who try to bend or ignore the rules. Anyway, most of them had fun.
So
another interesting week concludes. Two more school day until camp.
well then Joe,, Happy Fathers Day to you
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