Alan's Week

 Morena tamariki ma, I know you've had a good week because I can see so much work online! You're doing so well! The weather has been really lovely so I've been out to the park as usual and checking on my strawberries in the garden to see how they are doing (very well thank you for asking). Laying outside sunning myself to get nice and warm. Usually I then end up too hot and have to go scurrying back inside.

I've heard that school is starting again on Tuesday next week. I would love to be there but Mrs Cox says I need to stay at home to keep Mr Cox company. She also said it would be too hard for the children not to run and see me and that would mean people might get closer to each other than they are supposed too. I'll still be blogging to keep in touch but on Tuesdays only. I like looking at your work online so keep blogging!

The answer to yesterday's challenge is : 

Q:When will the prize draw for the Great GTS Online Learning Challenge happen?

A: December 10th!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Daily Challenge (November 25)

 Ata marie tamariki ma! Another day, another challenge from me! This is the last one for the week - tomorrow is my bi-weekly update and of course I will give you the answer for today's challenge!

Q: When will the prize draw for the Great GTS Online Learning Challenge happen?

I'm sure you have it marked on your calendar already!

Here is the answer to yesterday's challenge!

Q: What is the total value of the prize pool in the Great GTS Online Learning Challenge?

A: $10,000 !!!!

Wow - that's amazing!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 24)

 Morena tamariki ma, it's challenge of the day time again! Did you have a go at answering yesterday's challenge? I hope so! Here is today's challenge:

Q: How many dollars worth of prizes are being given away in The Great GTS Online Learning Challenge?

The answer to yesterday's challenge:

Q: What do you need to do to gain one entry to The Great GTS Online Learning Challenge?

A: You must be in your google meets and working hard online. 

Keep safe and be kind.

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 23)

 Morena tamariki ma, hope your ? is going well so far ....it's time for my challenge of the day! Remember to tell me what you think the answer is (or answers if there is more than one) and to check the following day to see if you were right!

Q: What do you need to do to gain one entry to The Great GTS Online Learning Challenge?

Alan wishes he could win one of the amazing prizes!

I'm pretty sure everyone will know the answer to this challenge! Make sure you are doing all the right things to have the best chance of winning a prize! 

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Weekend

 Kia ora tamariki ma, it's been a beautiful sunny weekend hasn't it? I got to go on big walks on Rahoroi and Ratapu  which as you know I always enjoy.On Rahoroi we walked up to the local fruit and vegetable shop which we do quite a lot. I sit on the grass outside with Mrs Cox while Mr Cox buys what we need. I love the place we sit because it's shady and also is usually covered in sticks which I can eat. Yummy!

I've been spending quite a bit of time in the garden and we have grown some strawberries and we've noticed some passionfruit appearing on our vine - they are not easy to grow so Mrs Cox is very excited about that as well as about the flowers appearing on her miniture feijoa tree - that hasn't happened before. Mrs Cox loves feijoas - I haven't ever tasted them but I'm hoping too when they appear in the autumn. 

I hope you got outside during the weekend and are feeling refreshed and ready for another week of amazing learning!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa 

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Week

 Morena tamariki ma, it's been a lovely week with lots and lots of walks. One day we were at the park and we saw the Mr Whippy van. I didn't know Mrs Cox could run so fast! She ran over saying something about how she hadn't had a Mr Whippy ice cream since she was little. So she bought one - she said it was very expensive but I think it looked worth every cent. I tried sitting nicely and looking keen but Mrs Cox said I couldn't have any because ice cream is not good for dogs. To be fair she did let me lick her fingers afterwards.....

Alan is disappointed!

Another interesting thing was that I bought a new book! It's all about learning Te Reo Maori - Mrs Cox is going to teach me some of the things she gets me to do in te reo. She thinks I'll be really good at understanding it and says she will learn more te reo as well.  I think it will be fun!

Alan's new book!

The answer to yesterday's challenge:

Q: Which nursery rhyme do these pictures represent?

A: Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 18)

Morena tamariki ma, it's challenge of the day time again for the last time this week! Have a go and send me your answer.

Q: What nursery rhyme do these pictures represent?

Remember to read my blog tomorrow to find out the answer to today's challenge!

Alan takes time to relax

The answer to yesterday's challenge:

Q: What nursery rhyme do these pictures represent? 

A:Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet 

Eating her curds and whey

Along came a spider

And sat down beside her

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

I hope you had fun doing this week's challenges - tune in tomorrow to find out what else I've been up to this week!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 17)

 Kia ora tamariki, time for Wednesdays challenge of the day. I hope you had a go at yesterdays too. The answer to yesterday's challenge is at the bottom of the page and the answer to today's challenge will appear on my blog tomorrow. Have fun!

Todays challenge is:

Q: Which nursery rhyme do these objects represent?

Alan listens to his favourite nursery rhymes! 

The answer to yesterday's challenge:

A: The nursery rhyme is Baa baa black sheep! (the clues were sheep/wool and three bags)

Baa baa black sheep

Have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full

One for the master

One for the dame

One for the little boy who lives down the lane.

Did you get it right? Never mind if you didn't - have a go at today's challenge and see how you go!

Keep safe and be kind

ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 16)

 Kia ora tamariki ma, it's time for my challenge of the day!

The juniors are learning about nursery rhymes this week so that is the theme of my challenges this week.

Q: What nursery rhyme do these objects represent? 

My other challenge for the day is : can you find or draw three objects to represent a nursery rhyme that you enjoy? Send it to me and I will have some prizes to give out! Each junior class (Room 1-4) can win one prize per class which will be randomly drawn from the entries I receive. Juniors can upload their entries to seesaw and Alan will check them out! 

For middle and senior classes there will be one random prize for each syndicate. Seniors and middles can email their entries to Mrs Cox. She will show them to Alan! Prizes will be drawn on Friday morning and prize winners notified. 

Good luck everyone!

 

Tune in tomorrow for Alan's Wednesday challenge!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan and the Rain

 Morena tamariki ma, gosh wasn't it rainy this weekend? I thought it would never stop on Saturday but luckily Sunday was a bit drier although the sky was still overcast and everything was still damp and wet.

I did get to go on a walk each day though - I would never let a bit of rain stop me. My coat is so thick it keeps the worst of the rain off and I give myself a good shake when I get home. I'm allowed to in the carport but not inside the house. Unfortunately I didn't really find that out until I'd already shaken myself.....Mrs Cox wasn't thrilled about that but she really loves me so of course she forgave me instantly!

When I go to the park at this time of year I like to nibble the grass because it tastes really sweet and yummy. Mrs Cox says I am not supposed to because I'm not a sheep or a cow but I just can't resist. She says she hopes I leave some for the other dogs at least. I think that's her attempt at a joke.....

Anyway it was lovely to get out in the fresh air. We bumped into our neighbours and found out that one of them has written a book - it's being published in February and it's about creating your pepeha! Mrs Cox says she's keen to buy a copy. That must be an amazing feeling - seeing a book published with your name on the front as the author. I can think of quite a few Glen Taylor students that could definitely become authors when they are a bit older! That would be great to see.   

Alan the Sheep!

Don't forget to read my blog tomorrow to have a go at my challenge of the day! 

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Week

 Morena tamariki ma, I've enjoyed my week and I got to see another of my friends from Glen Taylor School.

I had to pop into school and guess who was there! Yes, you guessed it - Miss Halina! It was so good to see her - even though she didn't have any treats for me! Of course I did make her pat me a lot to make up for it - she didn't mind a bit - in fact I think she loved it!

I hope your week was as good as mine. Thank you for working hard at all your online tasks and at your google meets. Ka pai my friends!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 11)

 Kia ora tamariki ma, it's time for challenge of the day again! Remember to write and me what you think the answer is!

Q:Why did the banana go to the doctor?

The answer to yesterday's challenge is:

Q: Did you hear the joke about the peanut butter?

A: I can't tell you because you might spread it!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 10)

 Kia ora tamariki ma - keep sending me your jokes - I'm longing to hear them!

Here is my joke for the day:

Q: Did you hear the joke about the peanut butter?

Bit of a tricky one today - what would you reply if someone asked you that joke? Hmmmm.....

Here is the answer to yesterday's challenge of the day:

Q: When do you stop at green and go at red?

A: When you're eating a watermelon!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 9)

 Morena tamariki ma - it's time for my challenge of the day! My challenge today is for you to send me your favourite joke! Remember it has to be suitable for children! I love jokes and look forward to hearing Mr Herlihy's when he tells them at assembly ......so funny.

The juniors are learning about healthy eating this week so lettuce (get it?) have some food related jokes!

My joke for the day:

Q: When go you go at red and stop for green?

Tune in tomorrow for the answer to my challenge of the day and remember send me your jokes and see how much you can make me laugh! I'm smiling already just thinking about it!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Weekend

Morena tamariki ma, hope you have had a good weekend. I have and the weather has been so lovely I got to go outside a lot. Walks of course - and Mrs Cox was doing a bit of gardening....we went to the garden centre and bought some lavender to plant - it's good at attracting bees to the garden - and also some more strawberry plants! I love strawberries - yummy! I hope I'm allowed a few to nibble! 

I hope I get some strawberries!

I have started my new jigsaw puzzle - it's another quite tricky one but I'm sure it's not too difficult for me! I've only just started it though - lots more to do! 

Well I've started !

I wonder if you had any fireworks for Guy Fawkes night? There were some around where we live - lots that made very loud bangs! Some were extremely colourful - those are my favourite ones! A lot of animals get very frightened by fireworks so I hope all the animals were inside.

Alan is not scared of fireworks!

Have a great week - I am already looking forward to seeing your work online. And don't forget to tune in see my challenges of the day!

Keep safe and be kind

Ma te wa

- Alan   🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 5) and Catch Up.

 Kia ora tamariki!  It's Friday again and I've had a really nice week looking at all the work people are doing online and commenting on it! It keeps me busy and entertained which is great because although I love Mrs Cox and Mr Cox very much it would be exciting to talk to someone else sometimes and of course we are not seeing our friends at the moment - except at a distance or online. Sometimes I get to peek into the class Mrs Cox is teaching which is great. If it was your class you may have seen me too! I was probably wagging my tail furiously because I was so happy to see you!

I started my new jigsaw this week too - very exciting; I'm hoping it doesn't take as long as the last one I did!

It's Guy Fawkes night tonight - I don't even know if they are on sale this year = I kind of hope so as I usually go out onto our balcony to watch them safely from a distance as they are so pretty. Most cats and dogs don't enjoy them though so there are two things to remember if you are having fireworks at your house:

1. Keep yourself safe

2. Pets probably feel safest inside

Keep safe and be kind.

Ma te wa.

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 4)

 Morena tamariki ma, I hope lots of you are working hard on drawing me and labelling my body parts in Te Reo! I'm going to spend time tomorrow looking at them all and organising the prizes. Not till the evening though so you still have till the end of school tomorrow to post your drawings on Seesaw (juniors) or send to my blog or email Mrs Cox. I can't wait to see them. 

Now for my challenge for today:

Q. What has a bottom at the top? 

I'm just paw-sing to read a book! 😀😀

The answer to yesterday's challenge is:

Q. How do you make a skeleton laugh?

A. Tickle it's funny bone! Haha!

Keep safe and be kind.

Ma te wa.

- Alan 🐾

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 3)

 Ata marie tamariki ma, it's time for my challenge of the day. 

Here it is:

Q. How do you make a skeleton laugh?

I'm looking forward to your answers already! I wonder if anyone will get it right!

I'm listening to jokes on my headphones!

The answer to yesterday's challenge is:

Q. What has a head and a tail but no body?

A. A coin!

I hope you enjoyed that joke! 

Keep safe and be kind.

Ma te wa.

- Alan 🐾

The answer to yesterday's joke is:

 

Alan's Challenge of the Day (November 2)

 Morena Tamariki ma, how are you today? Hopefully ready for my challenge of the day! I have heard that the juniors are talking about the human body this week so I have some jokes for you this week on that topic for our challenges!

Q.What has a head and a tail but no body?

Tune in tomorrow for the answer!

The answer to last Thursday's challenge : 

Q.How do you know if there's a dinosaur in your fridge?

A: The door won't shut! 

Keep safe and be kind.

ma te wa.

- Alan 🐾

Alan and Te Reo

 Kia ora tamariki ma, welcome to week three of term four! I've had a lovely weekend as usual with lots of walks and lots of eating! Yummy! I also overheard Mrs Cox saying she's sent off for my Christmas present! I wonder what it could be? Toys? A juicy bone? A new collar? I can hardly wait!

For my challenges of the day this week I will be telling jokes but on a different topic from last week. Have a read of my blog tomorrow to see what this week's topic is and to have a go at answering the first joke!

Don't forget to comment on my blog and tell me what you think the answer is!

As the juniors are  going to be learning about the human body this week I have decided to have an extra challenge. Draw a picture of me and label the different parts of my body in Te Reo!

If you are a junior (Rooms 1,2,3 and 4) post your picture on Seesaw and I will look at them there. There will be a small prize for one from each of those classes drawn at random. 

That, of course, doesn't mean that only the juniors can send me their pictures and labels....there will also be a random prize for one entry from the middle school and one from the senior school. 

Happy drawing and labelling everyone

Keep safe and be kind.

Ma te wa.

- Alan 🐾