Week 3 Term 2

In literacy last week we enjoyed reading to our friends and having some more parents come in to  read at the end of the day. Remember if you would like  to share a book with the class just sign up on the class notice board.

We have also continued our learning about capital and lower case letters, this is very helpful for our writing and for using the computer keyboard or alpha smarts.

 Our poem this week was 'Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat'

Constable John came to see us twice this week. In the first photo we are learning to say NO to strangers.

In the second photo we were learning about good secrets and bad secrets.

In maths we have been learning about all the pairs of numbers that go together to make 10.

 As the leaves had finally dried after all the wet weather we took the opportunity to go outside and have some fun. Later we used this experience to do some writing about Autumn.

 On Thursday we had our 3rd 'No Child Left Inside' session. As you can see the focus was on dribbling the ball.

Can you spot some of our Room 10 friends getting their certificates in this week's Kowhai assembly.

As always Discovery Timeon Friday provided lots of learning opportunities and chance for us to practice our key competencies. Our focus this week was on letting others play.

Discovery Time Room 10 Week 3 on PhotoPeach

Finally just  another quick video from Discovery Time...New Zealand's Got Talent...watch out.

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 4?

Letters and Sounds: 'ng'  and 'Vv'

Tricky: Words  'going/very' and 'my/to'

Writing: shared writing, recounts and descriptions

Maths:  pairs to 10

P.E.: Fundamental skills 

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Keeping Ourselves Safe

Art: : Autumn Reflections

ICT: Hector's World online safety

Reminders

Wednesday 28th May: Suter Galley Visit, leaving school at 9am, helpers needed
Monday 2nd June: Queen's Birthday, no school
Sunday 8th June: Fun For Thought event Branford Park 1-3pm
Friday 13th June, Whole School Cross Country event
Thursday 26th June; Museum visit, Myths and Legends
School ends for Term 2 on Friday 4th July

Term Dates

Term 2: Monday 5th May to Friday 4th July

Term 3: Monday 21 July to 26th September

Term 4: Monday 13th October to Friday 19th December

Week 2 Term 2

There was great excitement on Monday morning when a large digger came to dig a very large hole. The work continued throughout the week and was closely monitored by lots of us.

Our poem for last week was all about Autumn leaves, but unfortunately due to the wet weather we had to postpone some fun leaf play until week 3..watch out for the photos in next week's blog.

In our reading rotations this week we have been learning about digraphs by using the interactive whiteboard and learning the tricky word 'was' using the slightly lower tech play dough.

 During fundamental skills last week Britney was our photographer, here are a few of her action shots.

 On Friday we had our first visit from Constable John as part of the Keeping Ourselves Safe focus. He taught us all about good touch, touch that hurts and confusing touch. He will be running 2 more sessions with us next week.

 We finished off the week with a quiet library session with our friends........

..........after a not so quiet Discovery Time

Room 10 Discovery Time Week 2 Term 2 2014 on PhotoPeach

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 3?

Letters and Sounds: 'Zz'  and 'Ww'

Tricky: Words  'got' and 'the'

Writing: shared writing, recounts and descriptions

Maths:  pairs to 10

P.E.: Fundamental skills 

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Keeping Ourselves Safe

Art: : Autumn Leaf Rubbings

ICT: Tuxpaint autumn leaf pictures

Reminders

Saturday 23rd May: Food for Thought fund raising event
Wednesday 28th May: Suter Galley Visit, leaving school at 9am, helpers needed
Monday 2nd June: Queen's Birthday, no school
Friday 13th June, Whole School Cross Country event
Thursday 26th June; Museum visit, Myths and Legends
School ends for Term 2 on Friday 4th July

Term Dates

Term 2: Monday 5th May to Friday 4th July

Term 3: Monday 21 July to 26th September

Term 4: Monday 13th October to Friday 19th December

Week 1 Term 2

Before we take a look at this week's adventures I thought you might like to see a picture of the special ANZAC Day assembly that the children were part of in the final week of last term.

This week in maths we have been focusing on odd and even numbers. This You Tube clip has helped us to identify odd and even numbers and we can even tell if numbers up to a million are odd or even!

We have continued learning more digraphs in our phonics lessons and worked on our word processing skills in ICT.

With Karina we thought of heaps of wow words to describe our ice-cream paintings that we did with Sam last term. Check them out in the entrance to Room 10

Fun times together.

On Thursday afternoon we had our first Fundamental Skills session with the teachers from 'No Child Left Inside", it was great fun and we have some very good throwers and catchers in Room 10.

We made a video of ourselves doing our morning Brain Gym exercises and thought you might like to see this clip showing part of this routine.

Through out the week we have been busy working on  a secret project for our mums. Here are a few behind the scenes photos and our special poem about our mums.

Friday was a very exciting day for me as it was the first time I had  been able to lead Discovery Time since the week 1 of last term. I was so impressed by the children's willingness to help each other solve problems and their creativity. I can't wait till next Friday's session

Room 10 2014 Discovery Time Week 1 Term 2 on PhotoPeach  

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 2?

Letters and Sounds: 'ee'  as in 'feed' and 'or' as in 'fork"

Tricky: Words  'was' and 'and'

Writing: shared writing, recounts and descriptions

Maths:  skip counting in 2's

P.E.: Fundamental skills 

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Keeping Ourselves Safe

Art: : Autumn Leaf Rubbings

ICT: Tuxpaint autumn leaf pictures

Reminders

Tuesday 13th May: Perspective Parents Evening 7-9pm. please let your friends know
Saturday 23rd May: Food for Thought fund raising event
Wednesday 28th May: Suter Galley Visit, leaving school at 9am, helpers needed
Monday 2nd June: Queen's Birthday, no school
Friday 13th June, Whole School Cross Country event
Thursday 26th June; Museum visit, Myths and Legends
School ends for Term 2 on Friday 4th July

Term Dates

Term 2: Monday 5th May to Friday 4th July

Term 3: Monday 21 July to 26th September

Term 4: Monday 13th October to Friday 19th December

End of Term 1

We ended our first term together with yet another busy week. We were entertained by parent readers, make sure you sign up to read sometime during Term 2

We continued practicing our handwriting and learnt our first digraph, 2 letters that make 1 sound, 'ai' as in rain and train.

Everyone worked really hard thinking about and writing their special Easter messages..............

....doing observational drawings of Easter items......

...and generally having lots of  Easter fun. A big thank you to Sam and Victoria for the Easter treats.

We have also been working on our visual memory skills.....................

................... and working in pairs on the probability games Sam taught us in maths.

The maths  check up on "Statistics" was lots of fun,  and well done everyone, you have all learnt heaps.

Finally take a look at our tasty ice-cream colour cones. They will be going up on display later in the week along with some descriptive sentences.

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 1?

Letters and Sounds: 'oa'  as in 'road' and 'toad' and 'ie' as in 'pie'

Tricky: Words  'see' and 'comet'

Writing: shared writing, recounts and descriptions

Maths:  problem solving and  probability

P.E.: Fundamental skills and running

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Healthy Eating

Art: : Cards

Reminders

Tuesday 13th May: Perspective Parents Evening 7-9pm. please let your friends know
Saturday 23rd May: Food for Thought fund raising event
Monday 2nd June: Queen's Birthday, no school
Friday 13th June, Whole School Cross Country event
Thursday 26th June; Museum visit, Myths and Legends
School ends for Term 2 on Friday 4th July

Term Dates

Term 2: Monday 5th May to Friday 4th July

Term 3: Monday 21 July to 26th September

Term 4: Monday 13th October to Friday 19th December