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Room 2 at Swimsafe 2012

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No Wrap Wednesday

Every week Vardon School has a No-Wrap Wednesday.(That means no wrappers in your lunchbox.)  

Paper is okay and so are reusable plastic bags, but no plastic wrap or chippie packets. Mrs Head finds out who the best NoWrap class is each week and they get a special certificate at Monday assembly.

Room 8 are really good at having No Wrap in their lunchboxes so we asked them to give us some help. They gave us ideas on what to bring and how to use little containers that we can wash each day.

Some Room 8 children had groovy lunchboxes with different compartments and some used recycled containers!  They are very resourceful!

Next week we are going to help our mums to let us bring less wrap or no wrap on Wednesday.

Junior Team Athletics Day

Have a look at the action at our athletics day!

Our River Walk

We had fun walking down to the river today.  

Ice Cream for Oral Language

Last week we read a big book called Grizzly and the Bumblebee.  Grizzly's Mum said he should put his sore paw in the ice cream to cool it down, but Grizzle ate the icecream!

We have been talking about what ice cream is and what you use it for.  Then we thought about what goes with ice cream and what it looks like and feels like.  The best part was "What does it taste like?"  We talked so much about ice cream it was really good fun to eat some!  How much do you know about ice cream?

Our Shared Reading

Room 2 made this wonderful video.  We felt like we were on TV because we had to do it so many times before it was right. I hope you enjoy it!

Earthquake Drill

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We all practised "Drop,Cover and Hold" this morning so that we know what to do to stay safe in an earthquake. We read a cool poem as well.

Visitors from far away!

We  had visitors to our class today. Dana came this morning and we looked for her country on Google maps.  She showed us Canada and we even saw the house she lives!  We asked her lots of questions and she told us some interesting things about her country.  Did you know that they call fizzy drink pop?  They also have different animals to us.  They have moose and bears and they are really wild animals!!  We found out that New Zealand is a lot smaller than Canada and it is a long way away.

After lunch, Michaela came to our room and she showed us some pictures from her country.  She speaks a different language to us, as well.  She comes from Germany and in the video she is telling Latai what she likes to eat for dinner.  We didn't know what she was saying!! It has been very interesting having visitors from other countries.  Thank you for coming to see us Dana and Michaela.

Production Practices

The Vardon School production is over now.  We had a lot of practices
with Room 9 and Room 13 and it was great fun getting ready for the show!
We had suns painted on our faces and we were dressed in yellow.
We looked bright and sunny!
It will be really good watching the video when it is ready because
we haven't seen the whole show yet.  The videos should be ready early next term.

Daffodil Day

 

 

We all made a special daffodil because we were thinking about what daffodil day means.  We wrote some stories as well.

Our Visitors from St Andrews Middle School

Our S.A.M.S. buddies on PhotoPeach

Cross Country tomorrow!

This digital scrapbooking design personalized with Smilebox

The Tree Pruners

What a noise!

The two men were noisy with their chainsaws but they did a good job of taking some branches off our school trees.  It is important for us to have trees in our playground because they give us shade in the summer but the trees had some old and rotten branches and they had to be removed. Now the trees look much healthier! 

It was interesting watching how they kept safe by wearing a harness to stop them falling out of the tree.  It was a bit like the harness you wear at Rock Climbing!  They put a "Danger Keep Out" tape around the area to keep the school children safe as well. 

When we went inside we drew pictures of the man working up in the tree.

Cross Country Fitness

Every fine day, straight after lunch the junior syndicate goes out to get fit.  We are going to be running in the cross country soon and we don't want to be huffing and puffing while we are racing around the field!  Room 2 has been running on the courts, making butterflies on the soccer field and playing with balloons when it is too cold or wet outside.  Check out the video of our balloon exercise.  We got really hot and worn out and we giggled and laughed a lot!

Our attempt at a voice thread

The children in Room 2 can try to share what they know on Voicethread.
If you click on the monkey, (that's my picture!) then you will find a photo of yourself so you can click on it.  If you are on a laptop you click on comment and record and you can say what you know about KC.  There should be a microphone on the laptop!  If you are not on a laptop you will probably need a microphone to speak into.  We can practise at school or you can have a go at home!  Give it a go and be a KC learner.

Making cars and trucks

Making cars and trucks

Our "end of term" wheel art day!