Bubble Fun

Bubble Fun

WALT / Practising to Count On and Count Back

Today we had a visit from the Science in a Van Roadshow.  

We learnt about mixtures, separation and reactions.  We also had some bubble fun.

We decided to see how many bubbles we could blow in ONE breath and then add them together and take them away - this way we could practise our addition and subtraction and basic facts.

Some of us had to blow a few times to make sure we got enough bubbles to count!

"We blew 25 bubbles the first time and then we blew 16 bubbles the second time.  It was hard to count them all because there were so many and they floated so fast!  When we worked out 25 plus 16 we 20 + 10 + 5 + 6 = 41. When we worked out 25 + 16 + 23 we started with 41 - 1 = 40 +20 = 60 + 4 = 64."

WALT Retell What Happened In The Story

"I like reading Junior Journals.  I like doing the independent cards but I would like more cards to choose from.  My favourite card is the non-fiction card because they are fun."

WALT Write Adjectives

We have been learning to add  describing words to our stories 

to make them more interesting.

Here is a quick describing activity that we did in class.  

We got to choose what animal we wanted to write about.

We used TAGUL to make them into word clouds.

It was easy to write describing words for the snake.  I will try to use more describing words in my story to make it more interesting.  I like to use describing words in my stories.

Showcase Term 4 - Wearable Art

Wearable Art with a Pacific flavour!

Room 9 have spent the last 2 terms creating 2 pieces of Wearable Art.

The first piece was a t-shirt with a painted picture that reminded us of the Pacific.

The girls chose to sketch and paint a Pasifika flower.

The boys chose to draw a sea turtle.

Inside each of these drawings were patterns that we had explored and seen displayed in 

Pasifika artworks.  We practised by sketching these into our art books.

The second artwork created by the girls were hula skirts.  We reused plastic bags and tied them together as we worked in pairs.  At first it was a little tricky but the more we did, the better we got at tying them together.  Like they say - practise makes perfect!

The second artwork displayed by the boys was a Lavalava or Pareu (sarong) 

to compliment their t-shirts. 

 We had a lot of help from Mrs Kong to complete the sarongs, painting of the t-shirts and in the construction of our hula skirts in time for the art show so a BIG THANK YOU to her for all her help!  We couldn't have done it without you.

We hope you enjoy our wonderful creations ... Tamure tamure, e te muremure ra...

WALT Read for Information - Junior Journals

Gordon's Reflection:

"I like reading.  I to work on the cards in our group box.  I like to choose the non-fiction features hunt because it's fun and it's short.  When I am at home I like to read storybooks and discovery books and I like comics too."

WALT Write a Cinquain Poem

WALT Write a Cinquain Poem

Wicked Wings

Gold, White

Yummy, Crunchy, Spicy

Wicked Wings are yummy when they are hot!

Chicken

Gordon

Reflection:

"I like writing. I like free writing because I can write about anything!

To make my writing even better I can try and use more interesting

words."

Showcase - Wheels Day

On Wednesday 22nd of August, the Year 2 children participated in Wheels Day. We were showcasing another way we could get to school in conjunction with our school Travelwise programme.