Memoirs, movies and mmmmmm!

This week we published our final memoir.  We could choose how we published them.  Arlo decided to share his digitally. Check out his fantastic retelling below.

In Art at the moment we are learning about the cubism art period.  Check out our blog soon to see the completed artwork!

On Wednesday we had our Totara Trading Market Day. This is where we exchange the points we have earnt in class this term into Totara Dollars. Children then create stalls to sell and buy goods at.  Some of us come away with more money than we started with us, whilst sometimes some of us spend it all!

On Wednesday we were lucky enough to be taste testers for students from NMIT. We got to taste delicious berry and mango flavoured smoothies and then vote on which one we liked best!

 

This week in reading we have been focussing on retelling.  Check out some students retelling of the story the Coyote and the Turtle below.

See-saw!

In reading we have been focussing on re-telling.  Listen below to hear Tilly and Niall re-tell their story from this week!

In Maths we are focussing on multiplication and division.  The Division Dinosaurs created their own little videos to share some of the strategies that they have been learning.

When Sally is reading to us we are allowed to massage each other. This week a big group of us decided to make a massage circle!

Finally we were lucky enough to have Grayson's kitten Spot visit us. She was a stray kitten that a farmer found.  Spot is a very confident wee kitten!

Out and About!

A number of us have been out and about this week. On Monday a group of Totara Students were lucky enough to go to a Science Roadshow at Waimea College. There we learnt about such things as thermal cameras, physical and chemical changes and the human body.

On Wednesday Sally took our Enviro Agents to the Enviroschools Moturoa Mission at Rabbit Island.  At this event they had to race around and find stations and complete challenges related to topics of salt water habitats, pest control and sustainable logging. Thanks Caitlin and Nelson for representing Room 2!

Sardines, celebrating and & St Patricks Day

This week in Room 2 we've got really stuck into reading, writing and maths!

In reading we are focussing on activating our prior knowledge. We all read articles about various animals.  One group read an article about the Maud Island frog and then made daioramas of their habitat.

In writing we are focussing on memoirs. On Thursday we played a game of sardines.  This is where one person hides and everyone else has to find them and then join them.  We then had to write about our experiences focussing on using lots of interesting adjectives.  Damp, muddy and squishy were adjectives that many of us used!

We have been lucky enough to have Sam from Nelson Bays Rugby come and take us for some rugby skills recently.  Thanks Sam!

Nelson is celebrating Race Unity Day on Sunday. So to celebrate our syndicate shared kai together.

And to wrap up our week we were treated to some Irish dancing from the Star Academy to celebrate St Patricks Day.

Last Friday we had a swimming carnival. We were very cold, wet and almost  froze to death, we had a really good time.We had swimming races and fun swimming races like the big t-shirt race and piggie back race.
by Emma and Jayden

Marahau Camp!

At the end of February we were lucky enough to go to Marahau for our annual school camp.  We had lots of fun exploring local places such as the Ngarua Caves and walking some of the Abel Tasman track from Marahau to Anchorage.  We also enjoyed activities in around camp such as paddleboarding, cooking damper and smores, swimming and exploring inside the tower. Check out some of our Google Slideshows to see the fun we had!

week 4

Here are room 2's new student councilors

Ruby                          Hollie                     Zai 

We got to vote for our student councilors. 

We had our first summit club of the year on Thursday. 

We walked up the center of NZ we had lunch and came back down.

While the year 6's were doing per-mediation the year 5's were building something to  get Rapunzel down
from her castle. The boys above built a drone. |The girls below built a ladder.

On Tuesday after school we had a picnic under the trees. Lots of family's came and ate their dinner and had a great time.

This is the artwork we have been doing this week we took a picture then cut out our main features and glued them on.

Week 2 Room 2!

We've had another great week in Room 2.  This week we got stuck into reading, writing and Maths!

In Writing we have been learning about memoirs.  We enjoyed watching Michael Rosen's chocolate cake video to kick us off!  We have been learning that memoirs are about a small moment in time... a 'seed moment'

As part of digital citizenship in ICT we have been learning about rings of responsibilities.  We discussed some of the different responsibilities that we have

e.g. To our self - To not share our passwords with people other than our parents

To our friends and family - To not post photos without their permission

To our community - To not say unkind things about others online

And to finish our week even though it was raining today we enjoyed a session in the pool.

We've had a great first week back at school in Room 2.

This week we participated in a whole heap of activities around a story called Little Red's Cookie Catapult. This story was a slight variation of Little Red Riding Hood in which Little Red is trying to get her cookies to Granny.  The wolf however gets in her way and eats them all up!  We've talked a lot about growth mindsets as well. Granny doesn't have a growth mindset as she thinks 

" The wolf is too clever, I'm ready to give up" and "I just knew this wouldn't work!"  Little Red however has a growth mindset and says"  Don't give up Granny. My secret path through the forest didn't work so I will have to find another one."  and " I have learned from my mistakes... I will have to think of another way to get the cookies to Granny."  As part of this we had to design our our own catapult to get some cookies to Grandma.  We had to show our problem solving skills and display a growth mindset, especially when our plans didn't work.

We also had fun icing and decorating our own biscuits.

Welcome back!

Hi From Room 2 2017!

We'd like to say welcome if this is your first time to our blog.  Currently there are 24 students in our class on nine and ten year olds in sunny Nelson, New Zealand.

Check back here weekly so see all the learning and fun that goes on in our classroom!