Surprise!

Last week Room 2 got a big surprise in the mail. We were sitting down to read a story when Liam came in with a big box from the office, we didn't think it was for us and then he said there were two more in the office as well! We got quite excited. Miss B gave us clues and we tried to guess what was in the box, but we just couldn't. We opened the boxes and were amazed to find teddy bears in bee suits and books with pencil cases on them, enough for every one in the class! Last term we had written to the company who make Marbig pencils because we had got a bad batch of pencils that kept breaking and getting chewed up by our sharpeners. We wrote to them and told them all about our problem so to say thankyou and sorry they sent us presents. We were so happy they took our problem seriously and glad we were brave enough to let them know what we thought.

Willbee the Bumblebee

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We loved the junior show! Well done all you very clever children and teachers.

Cycle Safety

We had an amazing time learning about cycle safety with our friend Constable Somerfield, even Miss B was on her bike!

Welcome back!!

Yes it seems like a hundred years since room 2 last posted on the blog, but unfortunatley Miss B's computer had a nasty accident and all the lovely photos and things were trapped on it and we couldn't blog them. Over the next wee while we hope to catch up on the cool stuff we have been up to starting with this .......
We have been buddy reading with our friends in room 10 on a Friday afternoon, what a wonderful way to end the week. The children are working so beautifully together it makes Mrs S and I so proud!

Cool Cricket at Logan Park

 

Art, artists and portraits

We have been learning about drawing portraits and the different ways artists do portraits. We have learnt that if you draw a picture of yourself it is called a self-portrait. We looked at the book "Willy's Pictures" By Anthony Browne and found an artist called Frida Kahlo who painted 55 self-portraits. She had a tough time throughout her life because she got badly hurt in an accident so she often painted herself in ways that showed this. We also talked about the famous Mona Lisa and wondered is she smiling and if she is what is she smiling about? Take a look at this website for kids about some famous artists for more information.

Colour with Leo

People Puppets

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Jump Day!

Check out the fantastic day we had yesterday at our Jump Day to help raise some money for the heart foundation. Thanks Lucy for taking such amazing shots!

Coke and Mentos Experiment

Amazing All Blacks Banner

On Friday some of the Room 2 children were lucky enought to go on a Wide Horizons trip with Innes, the children who were at school had a special job to do. We made a fantastic banner to celebrate the All Blacks and the last ever test match at Carisbrook. We blew up balloons, made streamers and drew amazing All Black pictures to go on our banner. Cameron and Miss Trainor made a really great sign on the computer and Miss B even made some All Black jerseys! We put our banner on the fence at school so everyone who went past would see our amazing work and that we were cheering the All Blacks on. It must have worked because they won!

Clay Creatures

 

It has been a while since our last blog post! We have been so busy with our art, music and pe that we have not had any time. We made some wonderful clay dragons by rolling a piece of clay around a newspaper 'sausage' and then using what we had learnt about joining clay to add legs, tails, eyes and even wings. Mr Harvey is going to fire them for us in the school kiln this week, we can't wait for them to be finished!

Monarch Butterflies

Yesterday Miss B put the swan plant outside in the sunshine, the butterflies stayed out there all day drying their wings. In the afternoon she noticed they had suddenly vanished, so she went looking around the garden for them and found them feasting on sunflowers!

Monarch Butterfly Video

Butterflies

Yay, we finally have monarch butterflies! Miss B took the swan plant home for the holidays to keep an eye on it and kept it in her spare room where it is nice and warm. Today she set up the camera and computer to record them, just in case they changed, and went out. When she got home she couldn't believe her eyes, two beautiful new monarch butterflies were hanging from the swan plant! They are now just hanging on the plant letting their wings dry out. Just as well she didn't forget to record it. Hopefully the pictures look great and she will use them to make a movie to show the children what happened.

Rhythm Interactive

 
 












Today NEVNS was lucky enough to attend an amazing interactive drumming performance at the Opoho Church with the fabulous Julian and Anton. We were amazed to find out when we got there that all the children were going to be part of the performance, they all had a drum to play. Anton led the children by demonstrating patterns on his drum for them to follow. It was so much fun, but very noisy. By the end of the show we all had sore, pink hands.

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