New bloggers!

Visited with the Alexander-Crawford family this afternoon. Phil, Nik, Tayla, Georgia, Billy & Maia have been following our blog with interest as they are off on a family holiday to the USA and Mexico in October this year. Over tea/coffee we started a blog, much to poor Maia's disgust as she was enjoying a story! I left Nik sitting on the couch having made her first post. 5 hours later I logged on and imagine my surprise when she has mastered blogging - posts about Maia and Billy and a Rock You picture show! Awesome work Nik, look forward to keeping up with your family photos and cant wait to watch your holiday blog... These photos were taken at Pataua Xmas 06!

Jordan on Guitar!

Not a song Jordan has practiced alot so he wasn't impressed that i am loading onto blog, but just working out how to do it. I think he sounds pretty impressive.

The Wonderful World of 4 year olds and ICT!

This photo story was made by a 4 year old boy at Kindergarten. Sam was able to competently take the photos with the digital camera, load the photos onto the computer and with a little help organise them into the photo story. Sam showed his self confidence by talking to his photos! I helped Sam upload this story to our Kindergarten blog. What a wonderful way of sharing his ICT skills with friends and family! I continue to be impressed and inspired by the skills of our Kindergarten children.

The net generation in the Classroom

A very inspiring teacher talking about what is happening in her classroom.

Rock you testing....

Back down to Earth with a Crash!

Well have been home 5 days and has been very busy. Fitted in staff meetings, trip to Auckland for ICT professional learning, back to work and back to my life as a taxi driver and chief organiser for Jordan & Kesia. Auckland started bad and ended bad but the ICT course and venue were fantastic. The day started at 5.15am with a phone call from Beverly to say she had had an accident on way to my house - all OK - just parked her car in a paddock for the day! Venue was Botanical Gardens in Auckland and as part of our learning got the chance to explore and take photos. Definatley a place worth going back to for a better look. The day ended with me getting a speeding ticket - i blame Scott's car - not used to driving it and it doesn't even seem like your going fast! Anyway there went $120.00. Not sure if the Ministry of Education will cover that one! Just off on the soccer run. Keep up with Scott's blog and now even Mum has started a blog! There is a link of this blog.

Last day in LA and back to NZ

Our last day in LA was spent at Santa Monica and Venice Beach. We began with brunch at IHOP - American Chain, International House of Pancakes! HUGE meals and not as nice as we'd hoped. Kesia barely looked like she'd touched her chocolate chip pancakes! All left feeling BLAH! Headed straight to the bike hire place and hired tandem bikes for. Amazing cycle ways, over 24miles along coast between beaches. Spent an hour cycling round, awesome on tandems! Checked out Venice Beach and Muscle Beach. What a sight. Lots of strong men and women parading their stuff and skills on the equipment. Jordan & Kesia tried out a tight rope and some bars. Took back our bikes then spent time at Pacific Pier where Jordan & Kesia tried out yet another roller coaster. Time for shopping on 3rd Street Promenade and Jordan & Kesia had their last wetzel pretzel! They were definately a favourite of the trip. YUM! Took a drive along coast to Malibu and Scott and Jordan gazed and googled over lots of flash cars! Headed to the Airport and had fun trying to find where we left from, luckily we had lots of time. Had our last Starbucks and spent time looking at photos on computer and supposedly loading them onto CD for me to bring home - (unfortunately when i went to put photos on home laptop the CD was empty!) Sad Goodbyes to Scott before we made our way through to wait for our plane. Long wait and plenty of time to play cards and buy lollies for the trip! Jordan & Kesia managed to sleep 8 hours on the plane so great trip for them. Arrived home exhausted and shattered but with amazing memories and stories to tell. Hoping Scott will add some photos of our last day to this blog. Let's wait and see! Once again thanks to everyone for sharing our blog and look forward to catching up with everyone soon.