Our amazing portrait art

We have created some amazing portrait art!

Ruben the Road Safety Bear

Today we were lucky enough to get a visit from Ruben the Road Safety Bear.

We learnt lots of really important things about being Road Safe. Some of these were:

*Stop, Look, Listen and Link when we cross the road -Beau

*We need to be careful of sneaky driveways - Izzy

*We need to remember to put a helmet on when we go on our bikes - Evie

*We need to sit in a booster seat with a seat belt when we are in the car (until we are over 148 cms tall) - Riley

*We need to click our helmet straps together to keep it on our head so we don't break our brain - Nikita

*Cross at a zebra crossing when we can - Lucas

*Wait for cars and trucks and vans and go when the green light man comes up at zebra crossings - Tahlia

The Slug that came to School

This morning Myla and her sister found a slug! She brought it in to share for news. She thought looked a bit like a tiger and it feels slimy and squishy! It also stretches when it moves and gets really long!

She wrote an amazing story about the slug!

Before school Arley found a slug on the mat and Arley picked it up. She put it in a container then went outside and got some silverbeet for the slug. The slug loved it! It explored in the silverbeet and ate its   way through the                cabbage.

Cross Country

Today was our school Cross Country!

We managed to avoid the rain and we got to participate in our first Cross Country event!

We have been training for this for a long time so we were very excited for our race!

Happy Daffodil Day!

Happy Daffodil Day!

We had fun creating our Daffodil Art

Buddy Reading

We love reading in Room 2!

Today one of our reading groups made the most of the lovely weather and read stories to each other.

Maths Week Mighty Mathematicians

This week was Maths week.

We were really excited about all the maths challenges and enjoyed the competition on mathletics!

Here are some Room 2 superstars!

Beau has been showing great thinking and problem solving skills. He also has been explaining and justifying his thinking.

Shay was on the leader board for the Tri-nations competition. He got over 8000 points. Well done! What a great effort!

Maths week Problem Solving

We have been doing lots of problem solving activities this week as part of maths week.

'Sh' sound

One of our phonics groups has been working on the 'sh' sound.

Look at all the words they could write that have a 'sh' sound in

Can you think of some other words with the 'sh' sound in?

Problem Solvers

Today we were working on a tricky maths problem!

We used the materials to work out the problem our own way then we talked about the different strategies that we used and why.

Rain Art

We did some amazing Rain Art!

This is how we did it:

Come into our class to have a look at our pictures and our wonderful stories that we wrote to go with them!

Super Sounding

Lucas has been working super hard to sound out words that he is writing all by himself.

He likes to sing the Jolly Phonics song, find the picture and record the letter/s.

Way to go, Lucas!

Our Mrs Wishy Washy Soundscape

In case you missed our amazing performance yesterday...

Here is our Mrs Wishy Washy Soundscape.

We did all did so well!

Great readers

Today Miss Brown spotted some awesome Room 2 Hinni Kids working together to decode a tricky word in a book that they were reading!

Ka pai you two!

Mathletics

We love using Mathletics to help us develop our number knowledge.

Tilly is working hard to learn groupings to 5 and 10 using this activity!

Super writers

An activity that lots of Room 2 Hinni kids like to do is practice writing words on the whiteboards!

Dancing Raisins

We did an experiment called 

'Dancing Raisins'

Have a look at the engaged super scientists in Room 2!

Large Ball Skills

We love going out for P.E!

At the moment we are focusing on developing our large ball skills.

 We all thought this was a great skill that we would like to practice at home with our families!

Frost!

It is winter time now and we have noticed how cold it has been each morning.

This week we have had lots of frosts! We went on a frost hunt around the school. 

After our frost hunt we talked lots about what it looked like, felt like, sounded like and smelt like. We then wrote some stories about the frost! 

Keep an eye out for some fantastic frost writing...

Autumn Leaf Hunt

Today we went for an Autumn leaf hunt.

We found lots of leaves that had changed colour and had fallen to the ground!

We had lots of discussions around what the leaves looked like and how they felt.

Keep an eye out on our blog for some awesome descriptive writing coming soon!

Sight words

We are learning to read and write lots of sight words. Shay made some of the words he knows with the letter bricks and read them in literacy time.

Way to go, Shay!

Ink on inky

We are learning about the letter i and the sound that it makes - 'i'

These words have an 'i' sound in them:

ink, inky, igloo, Izzy, Tahlia, brick, ship, lips and Indian. Patricia has 2 i's in her name!

Making 10

Today in maths some of the clever cookies in Room 2 were looking at the different ways we can add numbers up to 10. We used the numicon shapes to help us.

Look at some of the ways we could make 10!

Our whānau/family art

We drew some amazing pictures of our 

whānau/family.

Have a look at our works of art!

Hiwi the Kiwi

Today the we had the Hiwi the Kiwi show at school. We learnt all about safe fishing and making sure we fish for our future.

We know that we do not take small fish because we need to let them grow. We also shouldn't take big fish because they might have babies.

We loved the songs and actions.

If you want to learn more check out:

http://www.hiwithekiwi.co.nz/