Get Set Go!

Sports Coach

On Wednesday we did some balancing. When the coach said, "stop" we had to try balance on one leg with airplane arms. We sit down and listened to the coach, the coach picked someone to be the tagger. He gave them a pool noodle and the tagger had to run and tag everybody. When the person got tagged they had to stand like a starfish. To be back in the game, someone had to crawl through your legs. The tagging game was my favourite game because I liked tagging people. 

Author: Jeremiah, room 7

Room 7 has been enjoying Get Set Go which is a physical education program that incorporates all sorts of gross motor skills and balancing techniques with good old fashion fun. 

Story above orally titled and written by Jeremiah, room 7.

Life Education

Room 7 had their second session with Harold and Nicole today. The students got an opportunity to talk to Harold's puppet friends about their worries. We are getting good at sharing our feelings in the different colour zones. The blue zone is sad, yellow zone is worried, green zone is happy and the red zone is angry. When we have identified what zone we are in, we work together to find ways back to the green zone. This looks different for each student.

We also had a think about if we got lost and what we would do. We talked about our addresses and how it's important to know them so we know where to go if we do get lost. We are writing letters to our parents and are going to send our letters to our parents using our addresses. This ties in with our Inquiry topic, safety. 

Egg Carton Creations

Today Room whitu did some creating. We used egg cartons, eyes, pipe cleaners, pompoms and glue to make insects or animals. Three of our brave boys chose to make crocodiles which after a lot of hard work turned out amazing. Some other creatures that are features are caterpillars, lady bugs, whales, bunnies, butterflies and turtles. How clever are we? What would you have made?

Library Forts

At the library room 7 read a book about how to make forts. We worked in groups of 5 to make our own forts. We had to work as a team. We used sheets, pillows, chairs and tables. One of our groups turned their fort into a library, another group chose to make a boy's room and girl's room. The final group made two rooms, one with pillows to make the ground comfortable. This is the room where you read softcover books. The other bedroom was empty and was to read hardcover books. The reason for this is because we have a rule that hardcover books have to be on the floor or on a table in order to protect the spine. This group also incorporated the library computers into their fort as their office. We thought this was pretty cool. All three groups worked wonderfully together and had such wonderful ideas. Tino Pai room 7.

Our Best Adventures

In room 7 we like to celebrate our learning. Below are three learners that worked very hard today. Ka rawe Vanessia, Kendric and Zahra. 

Mitre 10 ad, remade by room 2

Room 2 had a lot of fun planning, preparing and shooting our movie. The first step was picking which ad we were going to remake. We did a vote and Mitre 10 won by 1 vote. After we decided on the Mitre 10 ad we watched it over and over again so that we were able to rewrite it. You might have noticed we have changed a few things... for the better we think. 

From everybody in room 2, we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Teamwork Towers

Every Tuesday Mrs Collins teaches us something special. This term we have been learning about smart relationships. We have talked about smart relationships with our parents, teachers, friends and even smart relationships with people online. On Tuesday we put our smart relationships to the test and we worked together to build a tower out of dried pasta and marshmallows. The tower had to stand by itself for three seconds and the group with the tallest tower won. We all tried very hard but there could only be one winner. Congratulations to Dito and Yavi for their freestanding tower that stood at a whopping 31cm tall.

Scientific Friday - CREATE a robot, spaceship or alien.

Every Friday Room 2 participates in Scientific Friday. Last Friday we used recycled materials to build and create either a robot, spaceship/rocket ship or an alien. Each student got complete autonomy over their creation, using both recycled objects from home and around the school. Plenty of learning took place. We learnt just how hard it can be to cut or glue certain objects, to share materials or take turns on the hot glue gun. Wonderful pieces of writing followed. Wonder what we will do next Friday. 

Smart Learners return...

Smart learners returned to Room 2 today - and they were awesome!
Today we emptied Ninja-go collaboratively, we listened to instructions and followed them through.  Eli and Milad were SUPER STAR SMART LEARNERS... Tino Pai Miss Pryde and PBS Rm 2!

Room 2 Smart Learners

This year we are learning to be 

Smart Learners 

in 

Cyber-Smart
  

Every Monday Mrs Collins from Manaiakalani comes and helps us with our learning on our iPads.  We  have learnt how to Hug-Hold, or have two hands on our iPads, when we are moving around and that the cover must be shut.  Our iPads do not need food or drink...and when we are working on them, the iPads must NOT be near the edge of a table in case they fall off and get hurt.  When we leave the classroom, or we are finished with the iPads, they go back in our special cabinet "Ninjago" to charge or if we are coming back to use them they are stacked 4 (1, 2, 3, 4) high.

HUG HOLDING OUR iPADS

STACKING OUR iPADS 4 HIGH