Week 8 Term 2

In week 7 we have been thinking about working together as part of a team.

On Wednesday afternoon we had a very successful Hero card sharing session. It allowed us to apply our maths skills to a real life situation and show our great social skills around relating to others.

As you can see our block building skills are also coming along really well.

We thought lots about the Maori new year celebrations of Matariki

Part of this focus involved a fun trip to the museum where some of us shared our pepeha.

Some of us acted out the legend of Rata and the waka.

We learnt local legends about dolphins and wheke or octopus.......

.....and even made our own wheke

In our P.E. session we continued to learn about rugby skills after playing "Rob the Nest" as a warm up.

On Friday afternoon we shared in our whole school celebration of Matariki and had lots of fun performing the Matariki Macarena.

We ended the week with a special news item shared by a family team!

Matariki Discovery Time in Room 10 on PhotoPeach

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 9?

Letters and Sounds: 'oi'  and 'ue'

Tricky: Words 'are'

Writing: shared writing, recounts and dinosaur description

Maths:  doubles to 10

P.E.: Fundamental skills 

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Healthy Eating

Art: : Caterpillar printing

ICT: Hector's World Online safety programme

Reminders

Wednesday 2nd July: Room 10 shared kai

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 7 Term 2

This week we have been very busy building our numeracy skills. Twister on the number mat was quite challenging for the participants and very entertaining for the spectators.

We were given a box of old till rolls which provided a great opportunity for us to practice writing skip counting sequences for 2s, 5s, and 10s.

Some of us have started thinking about place value using bundles of lollie sticks to represent groups of tens.

In literacy we have been working as a team to find as many words containing the digraph 'th' e.g. 'the', 'other' and 'teeth'.

We have also started a buddy reading programme where some Year 3 children from Room 9 come and share reading books with some of our Room 10 friends after morning tea.

Some of us went on the Matariki lantern walk on Wednesday evening and a very beautiful lantern was shared at news time.

Our poem this week was about a Taniwha and we also created our own taniwha's using tux paint in ICT and then wrote descriptions of them. Check out our work below.

This is my taniwha and my taniwha is growly and my taniwha is mean.

Zaffryn 19.6.14

This is my taniwha. It has a tail and it is pink.

Miller 19.6.14

The weekended with another action packed Discovery Time..take a peek.....

Room 10 Discovery Time Week 7 on PhotoPeach

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 8?

Letters and Sounds: 'qu'  and 'ou'

Tricky: Words  'my','me', 'then' and 'when'

Writing: shared writing, recounts and Matariki retell

Maths:  doubles to 10

P.E.: Fundamental skills 

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Healthy Eating

Art: : Caterpillar printing

ICT: Matariki pictures on Tuxpaint

Reminders

Wednesday 25th Hero Card Swap day
Thursday 26th June; Museum visit, Myths and Legends
Wednesday 2nd July: Room 10 shared kai

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 6 Term 2

In maths this week we continued to learn about numbers that go together to make 10.

One of our sounds was 'x' which we could hear on the ends of words like 'box' and 'fox'.

 We have continued our thinking about healthy food and unhealthy food and have taken on the challenge of creating a healthy lunch box for 'Bee' by the end of the term.

 Some amazing creations appeared during small world rotations this week, accompanied by lots of language and cooperation...well done Room 10!

 It finally stopped raining just in time for our 'No Child Left Inside" lesson when we learnt to dribble the ball over longer distances and had a go at kicking for distance.

 We continued thinking about ideas for the playground make over and some of these were even shared in news time.

On Friday another exciting Discovery Time focused on the Key Competency of Relating to Others, in particular being kind to each other.

Discovery Time Room 10 Week 6 on PhotoPeach

The week ended with the much anticipated whole school cross country event. Well done everyone in Room 10 for showing great 'I your can" attitudes and looking after each other, Also a big thank you to the parents who volunteered to help with the event.

Cross Country 2014 Kowhai on PhotoPeach

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 7?

Letters and Sounds: 'sh'  and 'th'

Tricky: Words  'she' and 'the'  

Writing: shared writing, recounts and descriptions

Maths:  counting in 2's, 5's and 10's 

P.E.: Fundamental skills 

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Healthy Eating

Art: : Caterpillar printing

ICT: Taniwha pictures on Tuxpaint

Reminders

Wednesday 25th Hero Card Swap day
Thursday 26th June; Museum visit, Myths and Legends
Wednesday 2nd July: Room 10 shared kai

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 5 Term 2

This week in Room 10 we have been busy learning the digraph 'oo' as in moon and book.

 Our new system for news has started off very well with children bringing in some great things to talk about including a book to help us celebrate Samoan Language week.

 We were very energetic on Thursday afternoon when Jane played a special game of Fruit Salad with us as a warm up before we learnt how to dribble and control a large ball.

 On Friday afternoon we worked with our buddies from Room 5 to design our dream playground. We are passing our designs onto the School Community Group who are currently exploring this project.

In Discovery Time we enjoyed so old favourites as well as some new activities.

Room 10 Discovery Time Week 5 Term 2 on PhotoPeach

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 6?

Letters and Sounds: 'x'  and 'ch'

Tricky: Words  'very/went'  and 'my/we'

Writing: shared writing, recounts and descriptions

Maths:  counting in 2's, 5's and 10's 

P.E.: Fundamental skills 

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Healthy Eating

Art: : Autumn Reflections

ICT: Healthy Eating online activities

Reminders

Friday 13th June, Whole School Cross Country event, postponement date if needed 20th June

Sunday 15th June: Fun For Thought event Branford Park 1-3pm..postponed from last week

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 4 Term 2

Not many photos from during the week as we had a small battery issue with our camera. It is all sorted now for next week and a big thank you to Zoe's granddad for taking these great photos of our trip to the Suter Gallery on Wednesday.

Movement and Dance at the Suter Room 10 2014 on PhotoPeach

During the week we worked on pictures to illustrate our Class Treaty that we developed last term. Watch out for them on display in the class later this week.

Our poem and song this week had a Kiwi bird theme. We will be writing about the kiwi bird next week.

Discovery time Room 10 Term 2 Week 4 on PhotoPeach

 

What are we learning in Term 2 Week 5?

Letters and Sounds: 'oo'  and 'y'

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

Writing: shared writing, recounts and descriptions

Maths:  doubles to 10

P.E.: Fundamental skills 

Maori: myths and legends

Topic: Healthy Eating

Art: : Autumn Reflections

ICT: Healthy food mind map

Reminders

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