Term 2

Our last week of term...

We visited Corinne in the Life Education Caravan for our first session on Tuesday morning and our second session on Thursday morning.

The 3 big questions we looked at were...
- What makes me a good friend?
- How do we know what other people could be feeling?
- What are the impacts of the decisions we make?

On Tuesday, we talked about how friends are kind, helpful, sharing and different. We watched a story about Harold and his friends.

On Thursday we looked at these faces and had to come up with 2 different words for each picture, to describe how they were feeling. It was quite tricky and we had to look closely at their eyes to help us decide.

Then we started reading a story called "What if everybody did that?" It made us all start to think about how we choose to act ... "What if everybody did that???"

Friday - Problem Solving

Our problem solving activity involved making chairs and then a table to match, using multi-link cubes.

It was actually a lot trickier than we thought it would be! We had to use our Learning Powers. We had to work collaboratively, show resilience (when the cubes we wanted to link together would not work), be innovative (and make it different from the people around us), and at the end we were reflective and talked about what we would change next time we did a task similar to this. We also had lots of fun!

 

The Day the Crayons Quit

What a great job the Year 1-3 classes did on our production this week!

Room 8 were wonderful as Purple People Eaters! 

Adam enjoyed everything about the show.

Oscar liked our song.

Chloe thought everyone worked really hard and did a great job.

Riley thought it was cool and doing the wounded duck action.

Emma liked red crayon because the dance was cool.

Lucy liked orange crayon because she likes orange.

Emily liked that her Dad got to see his favourite song - Eye of the Tiger (orange crayon).

Brooke liked our actions for the part "One eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater".

Sara liked being sparkly in her costume.

Zirah liked the blue crayon because she liked their moves and the aliens.

Week 9

Congratulations to Sara and Aimee for receiving certificates this week! Keep up the excellent work in spelling!

Purple People Eater - our Production song

(funky monkey)

Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had one long horn and one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said "oohwee”
It looks like a Purple People Eater to me

It was a one-eyed, one-horned flyin' Purple People Eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' Purple People Eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' Purple People Eater

Sure looked strange to me (One eye?)

(twist)
Well, he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said, "Mister Purple People Eater, don't eat me"
I heard him say in a voice so gruff,
“I wouldn't eat you cause you're so tough”

It was a one-eyed, one-horned flyin' Purple People Eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' Purple People Eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people Eater
Sure looked strange to me (One horn?)

(rolling)
I said, "Mister Purple People Eater, what's your line?"
He said, “Eatin' purple people, and it sure is fine.
But that’s not the reason that I came to land.
I wanna get a job in a rock 'n roll band”

(wounded duck - remember slow, slow, quick, quick, quick, quick)
Well, bless my soul, rock 'n roll flyin' Purple People Eater
Pigeon-toed, under-growed flyin' Purple People Eater
He wears short shorts, friendly little People Eater
What a sight to see (Oooohhh)



(front crawl swim)

And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground
And he started to rock, A-really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin' tune,

Singin' bop bapa loop a lap A loom bam boom


(wounded duck - remember slow, slow, quick, quick, quick, quick)
Well, bless my soul, rock 'n roll flyin' Purple People Eater
Pigeon-toed, under-growed flyin' Purple People Eater
I like short shorts, flyin' Purple People Eater
What a sight to see (Purple people?)

(back crawl swim)
Well, he went on his way and then what-a you know
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowin' it out, really knockin' 'em dead
Playin' rock 'n roll music through the horn on his head



(freestyle playing musical instrument)

*** Remember actions are in counts of 4 and are repeated 4x each ***

Week 8

Congratulations to Kalani and Emma for receiving certificates this week! I love your enthusiasm for our Production item!

Week 7

Congratulations to Lucy, Brody and Ben for receiving certificates this week! Keep up the great work!

Week 5

Congratulations to Chloe, Chantelle, Adam and Flynn for receiving certificates this week. Keep up the great work!

Week 4

Last week we started making rainbow spinners and yesterday we finished them. We had lots of fun spinning them to see what happened to the colours... It was quite tricky to do but we showed resilience and persisted until we could do it.

Week 3

Last week it was Road Safety week. We had a visitor, Rochelle, from Auckland Transport come talk to us about how to stay safe and remember to Buckle Up. Oliver got to dress up in clothes that were far too big for him. He could wear them but they did not fit him properly! We can wear seatbelts without using booster seats but they will not fit us properly. We learnt the safety message "It's safer to wait until 148". This means it is best to stay in a booster seat until we are 148cm tall. The students found that none of them were taller than 148cm.

There was a colouring in/poster competition for everyone at school and Mrs Southward selected the winners. Chloe got a prize in Room 8. Congratulations Chloe, you did an awesome job!

Certificates...

Congratulations Brooke and Riley for receiving certificates this week! Keep up the great reading!

Week 2

Congratulations Brianna and Mason for receiving certificates in Room 8 this week...

Oral Language……………. Term 2

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Emma Chloe Riley Kay	Brianna Keira Karissa Brody Oscar	Tatiana Aimee Kalani Ben Oliver	Zirah Chantelle Lucy Henry Adam	Brooke   Emily Mason Flynn Sara

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
Topic Super School Holidays	Topic Share your favourite game that you like playing.	Topic - Maths Trace around shapes and create a picture.  Count the shapes with tally sticks and share it with the class.	Topic Bring a book to school and share the beginning,middle and end. Practise reading a page to read to the class.	Topic Bring your favourite picture in the share with the class. It can be one you have drawn, or a picture in a book or magazine.
Walt use what, where, when and who to share our holiday news.	I am learning to explain why I think this is interesting information.	I am learning to have eye contact with the audience.	Walt share information in sequence.	I am learning to explain why I think this is interesting.
Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10
Topic - Maths Write a word problem which includes numbers for the children to solve.  eg.  If there were 36 seagulls on the roof and 7 flew away.  How many are left on the roof?	Topic - Science Share anything about science.  An experiment, website, object or book.	Topic - Literacy write a short story and bring it school to read to the class.	Topic Find a funny joke.  Practise reading it and then practise presenting it to the class. Come to school and make us laugh!	Topic Share what you are looking forward to in the holidays
I am learning to listen to other people’s ideas.	I am learning to speak at a steady pace.	I am learning to project my voice to an audience.	I am learning to project my voice to an audience.	I am learning to have eye contact with the audience