Bubble Fun

Bubble Fun

WALT / Practising to Count On and Count Back

Today we had a visit from the Science in a Van Roadshow.  

We learnt about mixtures, separation and reactions.  We also had some bubble fun.

We decided to see how many bubbles we could blow in ONE breath and then add them together and take them away - this way we could practise our addition and subtraction and basic facts.

Some of us had to blow a few times to make sure we got enough bubbles to count!

"It was a little tricky to take the numbers away.  We decided to use a calculator to work the answer out.  We also could of used beans, the fruit or our fingers to help us.  We also can count in our heads from the number 12 - because it is the biggest number."

WAL About Compound Words

"I like reading.  It is tricky to find the words in my book.  Some books have lots of compound words and some books don't.  I will keep practising,"

WALT Write Adjectives

We have been learning to add  describing words to our stories 

to make them more interesting.

Here is a quick describing activity that we did in class.  

We got to choose what animal we wanted to write about.

We used TAGUL to make them into word clouds.

(Reflection:  Absent)

Showcase Term 4 - Wearable Art

Wearable Art with a Pacific flavour!

Room 9 have spent the last 2 terms creating 2 pieces of Wearable Art.

The first piece was a t-shirt with a painted picture that reminded us of the Pacific.

The girls chose to sketch and paint a Pasifika flower.

The boys chose to draw a sea turtle.

Inside each of these drawings were patterns that we had explored and seen displayed in 

Pasifika artworks.  We practised by sketching these into our art books.

The second artwork created by the girls were hula skirts.  We reused plastic bags and tied them together as we worked in pairs.  At first it was a little tricky but the more we did, the better we got at tying them together.  Like they say - practise makes perfect!

The second artwork displayed by the boys was a Lavalava or Pareu (sarong) 

to compliment their t-shirts. 

 We had a lot of help from Mrs Kong to complete the sarongs, painting of the t-shirts and in the construction of our hula skirts in time for the art show so a BIG THANK YOU to her for all her help!  We couldn't have done it without you.

We hope you enjoy our wonderful creations ... Tamure tamure, e te muremure ra...

WALT Write a Cinquain Poem

WALT Write a Cinquain Poem

Orange

Oranges, Round

Roll, Slice, Peel

They are tasty!

Trees

Wen Jun

Reflection:

"I don't really like story-writing because you have to always write. Sometimes I can't

figure out what it is I want to write about. I need to remember to

put in finger-spaces and use my word card to check my spelling."

WALT Retell What We Have Read

Wen Jun's Reflection:

"I read my books to my mum or my dad or my brother.  Sometimes my mum help's me learn my words.  I want to move to reading group six by the end of the year.  I will use resilience and try my best."

Showcase - Wheels Day

On Wednesday 22nd of August, the Year 2 children participated in Wheels Day. We were showcasing another way we could get to school in conjunction with our school Travelwise programme.