Science Book by Maia, Milla and Paige

Ice cream by Milla

Tasmanian Devils by Tommy and Aoi

How Tasmanian Devils Communicate by Zoran

Using Bookcreator to publish our stories - by Bella and Milla

Milla and paige at school!

Aoi's steps to success.

Rocket story by Josh, Abdul and Yogya.

Revising our Writing

Catherine's steps to success - writing

Aoi's steps to success for writing

Bella's steps to success

Jessica's steps to success

Milla's steps to success

The Magic Puff by Bella

The poor banana palm! By Jessica

Photosynthesis

Jessica recounts the whale visitor to our harbour

Willy the stray dog's adventures

My Book by Zoran

We have been learning to make digital storybooks and even shared our knowledge with Room 9 students this week. Room 4 thought it was fun working collaboratively.

Zoran took it one (or two) steps further and created this amusing book which we can use as an exemplar for next time.

Descriptive writing this week in Room 4.

Dear Parents,

Room 4 have written some incredible descriptions this week using www.buildyourwildself.com website as motivation. They created their "Wildself" then they wrote about him or her. After that they recrafted their writing, read it over to a buddy and many shared their work with the whole class. Finally, when they felt confident to record their writing, they found a quiet spot outside of the classroom and armed with an ipad, off they went to record their description.

We would love your constructive feedback, one positive comment and perhaps one suggestion for an improvement. (But as we will be continuing to view and reflect on each others work in class time,  just a comment about one aspect of your child's work or someone elses' would be valuable for the students).

Thank you!

Milla's Wildself!

Bruno's Wildself!

Aoi's Wildself

Tommy's wildself!

Kasra's wildself!

Jessica goes wild!

Kokoa describes her Wildself!

Oscar describes his Wildself!

Abdul and Yogya and their Wildself

Room 4 have been writing descriptions of their "Wildselves" using a website called www.buildyourwildself.com 
They had to include: 
1. At least 3 adjectives
2. I simile
3. Reread your writing to recraft it to make it more interesting (A/C/S/D)
4. Use cool connectives (Extra for experts)!!

Narrative writing

WALT write a narrative.
A narrative is the story or account of something. It may be a true story, in which you describe something that happened to you, or it may be a tale about imaginary people and events such as a novel, a short story or a folktale.

Today we read some narrative stories in our reading groups and we are using the Story Mountain Idea to help us plan our own stories.

We are learning about some of the features of a narrative so soon we will be able to tell our parents all about this type of writing.

Recycling facts from Jessica

Grouping and sorting rubbish.

Year 2 have been wondering about the challenge of sustainability. We have read and discussed the slogan Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and have looked at all the different ways of grouping rubbish.In particular, the recycling codes seen on many plastic or glass objects.

These are some thoughts from Room 4.
1. We classify things as rubbish only when we decide that they are no longer useful to us.
2. Trash isn't always garbage as often objects can be reused or recycled. Today we read a book about Frank who wanted a brother so he decided to make one out of a big pile of trash. He called his new brother Stan. He was a valuable member of Frank's family.
3. Keeping our environment healthy is very important so we must try and be as sustainable as possible

Recycling facts from looking at PET recycling symbols.

Composting in the Apex garden.

As part of our Sustainability Challenge the Year 2 team are learning about compost.

Here is the story Room 4 wrote.

Yesterday all of the Year 2's helped to fill the compost bin. We put lots of twigs, leaves, blood and bone, grass clippings and finally we added water. We used a spade, a shovel, a broom and a rake. We did the composting because Mrs Bridgman came into school to talk to us about the 3 R's. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Next steps in Reading . . .

Dear Parents 

I will be diving into inferencing next Term (although I've dabbled in it here and there)

I LOVE to start with this book:

It is quite a simple read with MANY opportunities for the children to use their inferring skills.  

I first start off by reading it orally and talking about what inference really means-

Use the text clues

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Use what I know 

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Inference

The kids catch on pretty quickly! 

Then on the second day we use an organizer to fill in our thinking.  I find that this helps those that  need a visual, will understand more clearly after practicing it this way.

The sample is filled in with references to "The Stray Dog," but it could be used with any book!

When reading with your child remember to discuss those hidden meanings and try to let your child respond to the book in their own words.

Planes 2 by Yogya and Abdul.

Planes written by Yogya
Illustrated by Abdul.

We wanted to share our information about planes, robots and spacecraft with our class.

Going to School

What do I learn at school? What do I like doing most of all?
Room 4 have been talking and writing about what they like at school and what they find easy or challenging.
This is the first story, published by Bella. What a wonderful slideshow Bella!

Be sure to leave a comment if you view this post.

3D Shapes by Bella

Room 4 have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. They have begun learning about faces, edges and corners.

Catherine writes about animals in the Arctic

Bella tells us why penguins are an ideal pet.

Free Writing Friday - Jessica explores the Antarctica

Antartica by Milla

What is waste and how can we reduce it?

Does a rock float or sink?

Does plasticine float?

Science - buoyancy experiment

Today we made observations and predictions about whether or not certain objects would float or sink. We all said it was easier to float in a pool when we made our bodies into a star shape. We had to think quite hard about why some things float or sink.

Catherine's Subtraction Facts

Milla problem solving

Bella problem solving

Zoran using key words to help with meaning.

We have been reading about the Tides and what causes them. Key words help us to understand the topic.

Paige and Maia recounting Mrs O'Malley from Alligator Alley

We have been practicing our retelling skills. We are retelling our Shared Book with a beginning, middle and ending

Aoi recounting our big book

Aoi recount of a big book.

I am learning to add tens first in sums with 3 numbers. By Paige

Kasra making a complete sentence.

Curiosity! Yogya and Abdul made a radio!

Mia and Rici are fantastic Travelwise leaders

Today Mia and Rici came to read some Road Safety Poems to Room 4. They asked us questions about being safe on the roads and on the footpaths.

Oshean writes about his journey to school

Jessica explains about the main idea in her book.

We are learning to identify challenges in books we read and make connections with our own life.

Greedy Cat by Jessica

Tales about Greedy Cat by Bella

Milla explains the challenge faced by Paraolympian athletes.

Zoran shares his new maths learning about tidy numbers.

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Guess who went to visit Greedy Cat?

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Year 2 loved The Greedy Cat Show. We wrote about the show when we returned to school.
Here are a few stories from Room 4.

Greedy Cat Show by Emaan
This morning we went to the Greedy Cat Show at Takapuna. We went by bus. Remi and I were talking in the bus and we were having fun in the bus. It was taking ages to get there. We got to pat Greedy Cat. He was totally cute.
Greedy Cat by Jecholeah
This morning my class went to The Greedy Cat Show. My class loved it because we loved Greedy Cat's tail because Greedy Cat's tail was so fluffy and nice and like a fluffy bunny rabbit. I loved that funny show and I felt happy and that was the end of that.

Greedy Cat by Oscar
Today Room 4 and Room 2 and Room 1 went to the Greedy Cat Show. We got there by a bus and it was at Takapuna. Greedy Cat ate all of the food.

Greedy Cat Show by Aoi.
This morning Room 4, Room 2 and Room 1 hopped on a bus to Takapuna. We watched a Greedy Cat Show and he ate all the cake, sausages, sticky buns and potato chips. Then, the pepper made him say Yowl!

Information Report by George

This is what I learned about sand.

Year 2 assembly

https://vimeo.com/123130758

Enjoy your movie about our diversity assembly on Monday. Thank you to Richie (a Dad in Room 1) for making this movie.

Sandy Shores by Milla

I liked this video that I made because I learned lots about the desert and I learned how to make a video from my PowerPoint.

Sandy Secrets Informational Report by Zoran

We researched pictures on PowerPoint and used ideas from a book we had ready called The Secrets of Sand.

Hello around the world song

My Information Report by Tommy

I did an information report after I read a book about sand.

Sand Secrets by Bella

We read a non fiction book about sand and then we wrote a report. We had to have a title, headings, photos and an index.

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Maia has been busy making new words from our Chunks game.

Catherine's News today - Tuesday 10th March

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We have been learning to break words up into chunks to help us figure them out!

Milla has been practicing reading fluently with expression. Well done Milla, your reading sounds wonderful.

Meet the teacher and hear about the Room 4 programme.

Dear Parents,
Here is an outline of our learning programme for those of you who were unable to attend the Meet the Teacher evening on Friday 13th February.
Please note my email address should you wish to contact me. As soon as the office have heard back from all parents, we will compile a class email contacts list which can be handed over to our class representative. Many thanks to Sophia (George's mum) for offering to be our class rep.
 

Tommy records his voice to check for fluency.

Reading fluently with expression