Talk like a Pirate Day

All the children in Room 2 know that 19th September is Talk like a Pirate Day.  We started by making a pirate hat for ourselves.  We painted it black and then we glued on a skull and crossbones.  Then we all went outside to the playground to walk the plank...
 ...and we hadn't even done anything wrong!

We had to paint our pirate hat black.

We thought about what we already know about pirates.

We talked like pirates!

We had our photo taken.....

...then walked the plank!

Arrrgh!

Lucky there were no sharks, so we could all go back to class.

Our reading books today were pirate books and we learnt a cool song about pirates.

What is this?

This is a fish beside a drain at school. We found 18 fish around our school.
Why are they there?
They are not real so they must be telling us something!
When the water goes down the drain, the water goes to the river where the fish are.
What is a drain?
Something that water goes down. 
It takes the water to a pipe.
The pipe takes the water past the next drain.
It takes the water to the sea or the river.
We have to keep rubbish away from the drains because it will go to river and make the river dirty

Our Visitors from St Andrews Middle School

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Maths Week!!

This week is Maths week so we will be thinking a lot about numbers this week.
Here are some photos of our learning last week.  We were learning to make "A Family of Facts".
We pretended that one of the shapes were the boys

in the family and the other shape was all the girls.  That helped us to make up stories like this...

How to be a digital citizen at Vardon School

Mustangs and Motorbikes

We were lucky to have two visitors who brought different vehicles for us to have a look at!
Mustangs and Motorbikes on PhotoPeach

Ruben the Bear

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Last week Ruben the Bear came to talk to us about Road Safety. 

Book Character dress-up Parade

We dressed up on the last day of our Book Fair week and the whole school took part in a Book Character parade.

Can you guess who we are dressed up as?

Technology in Room 2

Room 2 was really lucky today!  Katie and Megan from Room 7 arrived just before 9 o'clock with the set of netbooks that are based in Room 7.  Their class were not using them today so we did!  First of all everybody wrote some ideas down in their writing book and then, when it had been proofread we went on the netbook.  Many of us know how to find our blog on the internet and we have learnt how to write on our blog so this was great practice.  We couldn't wait to have it checked so we could click on the publish button! 

 

We also have our interactive whiteboard on every day and our student computer which we use for Study Ladder. 

Every week we go to the computer suite to learn a new skill.  We have been learning how to create some pictures on Microsoft Word.  It's fun - we could put them on our blog!

Of course, we still have to write in our books as well. 
We have been practising our printing so that we can do neat work that everyone can read.

We also like to use counters and maths equipment for working out addition and subtraction.



And we still like using play dough too!



Reflecting back on our zoo enclosures

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I have just found another slideshow that I made when we did the zoo enclosures.  Some of it is the same and some parts are different.  Maybe you can work out what I have added to this one!  I especially like the music because it is about the jungle.

Term 2 Room2 KC learners

Welcome back to school in Term 2.

This term we are learning how to be a KC kid.
We are learning to manage ourselves.

The people in our class are: Mrs Scott, Poppy, Brandon, Adam,   Thomas, Madison, Chloe, Shelby, Alyssa, Gemma, Caelan, Daniel, Eva, Kaspar, Tegan, Kieran, Hayley, Kaylee, Stephanie, Oliver, Anaru, Latai, Jordiss, Jordan, Lyric and KC. 

We are going to write messages  to tell you how we can manage ourselves at school so that we can be great learners!

Zoo trip

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This is a photopeach that Poppy and Thomas made at techsperx club.

Room 2's Trip to the Zoo on PhotoPeach

Room 2 newsletter 5 March 2012

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Room14 - Our Buddy Class

Last week we got together with our senior buddy class.

We each got a buddy to talk too.

We told them our names.

and they told us their names. 

We started to draw a picture of ourselves.

We will be able to do a lot of sharing with our buddies.

We will be reading to them.

We will practise our spelling.

We can talk to them in the playground.

And play games with them in Buddy class time.

We watched Room 14 in the Tug of War.

They were really strong. 

We watched Room 14 at their assembly last week.

They know a lot more things than we do.

They will be able to share their learning with us too.

They are going to read books to us.

And help us when they can!

We are learning to quickly count the squares on each block and write the number correctly. We wrote numbers all over the paper!  It was a very big piece of paper too.



We had to put the correct number of teddies in each space.
 If you look carefully you will see that a green teddy is giving little
yellow teddy a hug. (If you click on the photo it will get bigger.)
They are being good KC teddies!



We are thinking hard about our maths!

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All the year 2s had a spelling test this week.  It was a new experience for them because they were not allowed to talk or look at anyone else's work!  They had to write the words in the right box and lots of children had forgotten some of the words over the holidays.  However - Room2 are resilient KC learners so they did their best and tried as many words as they could.  (One or two children got most of their words correct...  What terrific spellers they are.)  Everyone will have spelling words to learn in the next few weeks.  They will bring home the list that they are working on but will concentrate on learning 4 or 5 words at a time.  Happy spelling Room 2. Let's learn those words so we can write our stories quickly.













Mrs Natusch asked us which words we have to learn and this is List 1.  Everyone needs to spell these words correctly!

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