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.

Code cracking spies.

Yesterday we made our own spy photos with Mrs Collins. You had to take a picture of things starting with letters that spelt out a word, like 'and'. For 'A' Malosi took a photo of an apple then for 'N' he took a photo of a nose and for 'D' he took a picture of the door. Then he gave his iPad to other people so they could crack his code and they did.

Yavi spelt out the word 'because', she took a photo of a butterfly to represent 'B', elephant for 'E', Cattaleya for 'C', apple for 'A', an umbrella for 'U', Sahara for 'S' and another elephant for 'E' then she gave it to Mrs Collins to see if she could crack the code and Yavi said, "she did".

Authors: Malosi, Cattaleya, Yavi & Miss Pryde

Mid Winter Christmas

On Tuesday Mrs Collins let us watch Peppa Pig. It was all about Christmas but it isn't Christmas, it is mid-winter Christmas. It means we are half way to Christmas so we made mid-winter Christmas cards. When we finished making out cards on paper we did it on our iPads. We tried really hard.

Whole school drumming

Yesterday room 2, along with the rest of the school went to the hall to learn to play the drums. We learnt lots of different drum beats and absolutely loved learning the drums but our poor little hands were quite sore afterwards.

Today we had the drum beats stuck in our head but our hands are much better.

Hiwi the Kiwi

Yesterday we went to Hiwi the Kiwi. At Hiwi the Kiwi we danced and learnt about Fishing for the future. 

Here are some of the rules room 2 learnt from the Minstrel.

1. You can't take the big Mummy or Daddy fish home, because they are breeders. 
2. Don't leave plastic lying around because birds think its food.
3. Always wear your life jackets, even Dads and Mums need to wear life jackets.
4. Always use a wet towel when picking up fish. If you don't use a wet towel you might rub their scales off and if you have to put them back they might die. 
5. We need to put the little fish back so they get bigger.
6. Always take your fishing ruler with you when you're fishing so you can make sure the fish are big enough to eat.

Room 2's favourite part of the show was when the Minstrel said "Come up boo boo" in a girls voice. We all thought he was very funny. 

Co-written by Hine-Sky and Gianni.

Learning and Eating

Room 2 has been discussing halves and quarters. Today we put our theory to practical use. Each student made a pizza and got to choose whether they ate it in halves or quarters. We had leftovers so of course, we opted to share with teachers and support staff around the school.  Room 2 loved creating and especially loved eating their very own pizza's.

iPad activities with Mrs Collins.

Every Tuesday Mrs Collins comes into room 2 and helps us in our iPad learning journey. Today we had four different challenges, we had to follow the instructions on the table and document our work with our iPads using the camera and EE. We were smart, hard working learners and loved all the activities Mrs Collins prepared for us.