Fantastic slope Silva!

 

Look at the wonderful effort Silva has put into sloping her handwriting, she has got it just right and it is very neat too! Excellent work Silva.

Cupcake Day for the SPCA

Wow look at all the amazing cupcakes we created to raise money for our local SPCA. We had a fantastic, fun morning with our helpers Jesseme and Ashleigh creating tasty treats to sell at lunchtime. We have been talking about the work the SPCA does for animals who haven't found loving homes and the sorts of things the money we raise could help to pay for. Our SPCA really needs the money to keep helping awesome pets to find new homes, just like Miss B's dog Murphy. We are so glad we could help them out with the $90 we raised by selling our cupcakes. Top effort Room 2!

Murphy says thanks for helping my friends out!

Trying new things

We have been reading and writing lots of fantastic poetry about food. We tried a new food, dried cranberries. Some people loved them, some didn't but everyone agreed they were strange and wrinkly! We used our five senses to think of describing words for the cranberries and then we used them to write our poems. We also used similes in our work, can you spot them?

Dried Cranberry
It looks slimy and wrinkly.
It feels oily and bumpy.
It smells sweet and sour.
It looks wrinkly like old people.
By Sara

Dried Cranberry
It looks tiny and wrinkly.
It feels squishy and bumpy.
It smells juicy and sweet.
It tastes silky and juicy.
It looks like a red scribble.
By Silva

Brilliant work Britney

Britney was the winner of our assembly award on Friday for her fantastic work at soccer. She worked very hard to follow James and Dave's instructions and to concentrate on using both her feet to move the ball. Brilliant Brits!

Superstar Spellers

Tino pai to mahi children. Excellent work in your spelling this week! 100%

Finding out about photography

We are learning about photography for art. We are learning about how to take good photographs. We have talked about how to use objects to frame our pictures. We had a look around our school and classroom for things that would make good frames and then tried out some of our ideas with a buddy. We looked at all our pictures and talked about which ones were most effective and why. You can see some for yourself here, which ones do you think are best?

Soccer Skills

Photo Stories - Sound

Have a look at some of the amazing work the children have done using photo story to present what they have learnt about sound!

Cool computing Cameron

Cameron is the assembly award winner for being such a whizz kid on the computer. He was able to make his sound book on photostory in super quick time, including the tricky bits like adding music and talking. Cameron was also a great ICT leader, helping other children to know where to go next with their photo stories. Well done Cameron

Our new room!!

Here it is our newly finished room, we just love it!

Our new room

Finally, after a longer than predicted wait, Room 2 are back in the new and improved Room 2! We are so excited about our lovely new room, it is looking very flash. Stay tuned for photos!

WE'RE MOVING!

Yes that's right Room 2 is moving back into their lovely "new" classroom in the senior block. We hope to be all shifted in by Friday, fingers crossed. :)

Congratulations Crystal

Crystal is our assembly award winner this week. She has been working really hard in writing to add excellent details to her recount to make her writing more interesting. She has also been concentrating very hard on her work. Keep it up Crystal.

Fractions

The children have been learning about reading, writing, making and recognising fractions. We have learnt that fractions are about dividing or sharing out objects or groups of things and even numbers too!

Marshmallow Sammies

Look at the amazing learning we have been doing about writing instructions.



Try making them yourself using Lucy's instructions.

1 You need a plate.
2 You need a packet of biscuits and marshmallows.
3 A microwave oven to cook them in.
4 Put the biscuits in the microwave.
5 Get a marshmalow and put it on one biscuit and put another biscuit on the top.
6 Now cook for 20 seconds.
7 When you take it out let it cool off for 25 seconds.
8 Now stuff your face!

Let us know how well these instructions work!

Sounds Amazing

We have been learning about sound and how it travels in science. We have had a lot of fun experimenting with making sound, working out how it is made and how it travels to our ears. We have also found about the inner ear and how it works. We are now working out ways to share our knowledge with the junior school so we can help them to learn about sound too. We are planning presentations using photostory which we hope to also share on our blog and wiki. Look at these great pictures of us experimenting with string telephones.

Clever Cameron

This week Cameron won our class award at assembly. Cameron has been working really hard on his handwriting, shaping his letters neatly and sloping his work carefully. Cameron has been working hard to be able to move onto linking, well done Cameron!

Army Training