Eventful week - Part 2

As part of the ASB Getwise program Captain Cash visited our room to talk about the difference between Wants and Needs and the importance of Save some, Spend some and Share some of our money. He kindly left us a wristband each. He was so funny and had a memorable message.

 The Father's Day breakfast was special and looked yummy! A big thanks to the PTA!

It was Daffodil Day also today, here are all the coins and notes we collected. Thank-you for your generosity.

An Eventful Week - Part 1

Last week in Koru Assembly we performed three Elastic Skipping Rhymes. A big thank-you to Amelia, Tianlu and Annie for taking the time to make elastics using loom bands. This has been a very popular thing to do in our room.

Mrs Jing and Mrs Kirke and Annie are all working together to problem solve how to best use the function line to program Cubetto.

TIP chart about Inventions

This is our second attempt at a TIP chart.

As part of our learning about Inventions we made a list of inventions that were invented to transport a person or persons. We then used a TIP chart to record in more detail what or how they were used.  Great thinking and teamwork Room 24!

   

TIP charts

This was our first attempt at a TIP chart. Firstly we draw a bike and labelled it's parts.
After that with a buddy and a felt pen and a large piece of newsprint, divided into three columns, we choose a bike part and recorded what it is used for and then illustrated that part.
Our next step was to use this chart to help us write a description of a bike describing the parts and their purpose. We now hope to publish them on the iPad using Book Creator.
A fabulous first attempt Room 24! Too Clever thought Mrs Dijkstra and especially using technical language like tread, spokes and gears.

TIP Chart

Term		Information		Picture
Bike Part		What it is used for?		Illustrate
Eg: seat		So you can sit down to ride

2018 Math's Week

Room 24 loved Math's Week. Each day we went onto the website and played Daily Dollar and Math's Millionaire. We were very close at guessing how many lollies there were in Mrs Madden's jars.

Below we are playing Dots and Boxes - a fun game which challenged us to think about strategy. 

Mrs Dijkstra read us the picture book "Each Orange has 8 Slices" Each page posed a mathematical problem which we tried to solve. We talked about what strategy we might use. 

Fractions

As an introduction to Fractions we had a Bus Stop activity.

 We drew a line on a shot glass with vivid's marking half, a quarter, three quarters and full. We used our drink bottle to make and drink the amounts.

 We were given a ball of dough and asked to find half of it. 

Some of us used the scales to check. 

 We were given a ball of wool and asked to make it as long as the table and then find half of that length. 

 We were asked to take a handful of pasta and then to find half of that amount.

 We were given 4 squares and cut them in half in different ways and used the shapes to make the letter T and M and a rocket.

Koru Cross Country

Last Friday the Koru Whanau held their first Cross Country. The Year 2's had to be very patient as we were last to run. Everyone had a go and JayRett and Amelia  were placed and received ribbons. Well done Room 24!

Stretching Sentences

For Story Writing last week Mrs Dijkstra gave as a long strip of card and half a page of stickers. We wrote a sticker story by firstly thinking of an animal and then described it using two adjectives. Next we told what it did, where, when and why. The purpose was to write an interesting story by adding in and adding on, more detail. We not only stretched our sentence, we also stretched our brain to think and elaborate on our original idea.