My Holiday Recount

 In the beginning of the holidays I was excited because we went somewhere that i never been before. And it had a lot of flowers. I didn't like it much but Grandma loved it very much. After walking for a long time we had lunch. It was yum. Then we walked again to the potter garden. It was fun. Then we walked again. Then we went home. I liked it.

The day Mrs Howard introduced minue minue.

 Some time ago Mrs Howard came to school very excited because she wanted to show this fun and cool video she found on face book. First she showed us the video a couple of times then we practised. A couple of days after we came to school we saw the grid on the carpet in our class all of us were excited. Some of us practised in the morning. Then we all got really good. When I was still in lockdown the rest of the class showed Mrs Allen the grid and they also showed room 22. Our goal is to show the school. 

Handwriting

 

I found this hard because I had to try to keep my letters the same size.Next time I need to keep my letters the same size.

maths

 

This is my maths. I found this really easy because I all ready knew dived by.

popcorn

I learned how to draw a dragon

I learned how to draw a dragon on Youtube today.
It was easy because the colouring .

I am learning to draw a portrait of myself.

I was learning to draw a portrait of myself.

I know how to shade.

It was easy because of the colouring. 

Welcome Blog

This year I am in Room 28 and my teacher is Miss Cunningham.

Looking after our Koha Garden

LI - We are learning to look after our environment by adopting a koha garden

We have been very lucky to have Mrs Robertson, the gardening guru, with us this year. We have been learning how to weed and water the garden. We also learnt how to grow vegetables from our koha garden. We grew many kinds of vegetables - kale, spinach, strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage and more! We made kale chips and spinach dips and tried some of our vegetables fresh!

Narwhal Inquiry

For part of our Narwhal inquiry, we have had an in-depth look at the physical features of the Narwhal as well as its habitat and what it eats.

Everyone was asked to make the Narwhal out of playdough and write about the process of making the Narwhal, and including all the features.

Take a look at my creation! 

Freddy the Fish

As part of our Under the Sea inquiry, we explored the affects of pollution on sea creatures. 

Freddy the Fish was a happy fish swimming through the clean water. He noticed that the ocean was starting to change. The water was getting warmer and there were more obstacles in his way.

Freddy swam through... soil from erosion, fertilisers, sun off, salt, acid rain, oil from cars and rusty metal. Freddy was not well. We realised that he won't survive long in the sea with all these pollutants contaminating our oceans. 

Sink or Float?

Miss Runciman ran a science experiment with us. We wondered how sharks are able to stay afloat and move in the ocean so freely. 

We put water and oil in a small jar, shook it up and saw that the oil rises. 

After some research we found out that a shark’s liver is full of fat and oils and that is how they manage to stay afloat.

A fancy afternoon tea

After our amazing High Tea experience in Room 8/9. We designed pop-up mugs to go with our writing piece. 

This is the high tea experience and my story:

Harold the giraffe & Life Education Van

Li - how to show EPS audience manners

Yay! We were the first ever class to get Harold. 

We remembered to sit still, we sat up straight and listened to the speakers. We sang songs and gave our best. Thank you for visiting our class Harold!

LI - how we all have feelings

The amazing Life Education Van came this year. Room 9 spent two sessions learning about how we have feelings and what kind of feeling we have. We discussed how we show feelings when we are happy and sad. We also discussed about how we can look after each other. Every time we had a discussion, the colour inside the van changed!

Our class sorted these feelings to Warm Fuzzy Bucket and Cold Fuzzy Bucket. Harold the giraffe taught us how to do the banana dance!

The Learning Pit

LI - how to be resilient when I learn something new.

In Room 9 we have watched a video about the Learning Pit. I drew my learning pit and then I drew myself inside the pit. That is when I am learning something new. We have discussed about some ways to come out of the learning pit. 

Here is my idea of getting out of the learning pit.

How do I show resilience when I do something new or something difficult?

When I fall in my learning pit I think of a way to get up. I ask other friends for help. I keep trying and then I get out.

Eason

I am just “WRITE” for our class!

My name is Eason.

I am Year 2. I am in Room 8/9

My teacher’s are Mrs Lim and Mrs Watson.

We are going to have so much fun in our learning this year!

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test' 
about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks 
and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up 
and point to where the illustrators name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the illustrator is the person who draws the pictures for the story.' 

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork.

Our art focus over Term 2 and 3 has been creating a piece of
art we can wear. Miss Donnell introduced us to a song in The Little Mermaid called 'Under the Sea' which was the focus of our art work.

We created our artwork by sketching sea animals in our books and tracing them onto laminated sheets. We coloured them in and created patterns using vivids. Miss Donnell glued them on to tutus and t-shirts for us to wear.

Check out my awesome art piece!

Our Writing Successes

 

WALT reflect on our 2018 writing.

We looked in our writing books at the first piece of writing
we did this year and the most recent piece of writing.
We talked about what had changed in our writing,
what we have learnt so far and are excited
to learn next year in Year 2.

Something I have learnt in writing this year is how to add detail to my writing.

Something I am proud of in writing this year is I can write lots.

WALT identify NZ notes and coins

WALT identify NZ notes and coins

We had Captain Cash from ASB come to visit Room 4. We learnt lots about saving money, spending money and sharing money. Miss Donnell decided to test us and see if we remembered how to sort out the coins and notes from biggest to smallest. Look at my sorting success!