Marvellous Maths!

Dear all,

Room 2 children have worked very hard in the last two weeks and I'm privileged to be the children's teacher.  The class have been investigating 2 and 3 dimensional shapes and their features.  This has allowed children to make nets, solid shapes and find diagonals.  Lots of great learning talk has been discussed within each learning group and many children have recieved house points due to the quality of their work.

You rock room 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr Wilkins

Thursday Plays

Each Thursday Room 2 practice their Drama and teamwork skills and present short plays for the class.

Each week they are getting increasling better! They are learning new skills and I can see some fantastic drama development happening!!

Check out some pics below!!

Introducing Mr Wilkins

Hi Room 2,

Thank you for my wonderful letters.  I really enjoyed reading them and I'm looking forward to teaching you next term.

Well, my name is Mr Wilkins and I was originally born in England.  I'm married to Sarah and have four daughters Annabella, Sophia, Louisa and Saskia.  We live in Tirau and have some alpacas, rabbits, dog, cat, and chickens.

 I enjoy going out, gardening and collecting old things and I will bring some old things into show you next term.  Have a great last two weeks and a well earned holiday and I look forward to seeing you all soon.

Mr Wilkins

St Joseph's Got Talent Quest 2013

This afternoon we had our Talent Quest. We had 8 fantastic performances. Well done to everyone that got up to showcase their skills.

Congratulations to our joint runners up

Oscar Donderwinkel - The Balloon Man
Reid Allen and Jayden Hemi - Dancers

Also to our first place winner

Zanthie Thomas - Reciting a poem from Cat in The Hat and her two side kicks Thing 1 and Thing 2 played by AJ Thomas and Oscar Donderwinkel!!

It was a fantastic show!!

 Runners Up

Oscar

Jayden and Reid

 

 Winner

Zanthie

Thing 1 &
Thing 2

All of our contestants

Investigating Volume

This week Room 2 have been looking at Volume.

We know volume is the amount of space that an object takes up.

Yesteday we investigated how many cubesit would take to fill a range of containers.

First the students made estimates and then worked it out.

Some were close and some not so close, but they all had fun and learnt heaps.

Check out some pics and video below!!

Week 3 Discussion

Welcome back to another week Room 2!
We are already into week 3!

This week we have Zero Waste coming in to talk to us about rubbish and recycling.

What can you remember about Zero Waste from last year?

Do you have any questions?

Remember to put you name at the bottom of your post.

Week 2 Discussion

What do our school values mean to you?

Last week we looked at the value of consideration and how we can show that in our lives.
This week we are going to be thinking about the value of co-operation and what that means for us.

How can you show co-operation in the classroom, in the playground and at home?

Autumn Leaves Creative Writing

Room Two did some fansastic writing today about autumn leaves.

Check it out!!

The leaves crackle when I stand on them.

When I look at the leaves I see firy orange.

The wind makes the leaves slide and twirl to the ground.

I kick them away with my feet

They go whoosh in the wind as it takes them drifting on the breeze.

By Reid

I like to see the autumn leaves spotted different colour. I love the way they crinkle and crunch.

I don’t want to swish them it will make me a fool.

I watch them flip and flap and dive down past me.

It’s like the trees all get their hair shaved off.

By Catherine

There are red, orange and brown leaves drifting down from the trees.

They sway down one by one, gently landing like an aeroplane.

We all run through them and they crunch and crackle like a rusty piece of metal.

The swaying trees are losing their leaves.

I lovely autumn day to play.

By Edward

 

As I jump through the crackling red crunchy autumn leaves I start chucking them up to the sky.

They start flipping and zig zagging through the air.

It looks like pieces of a puzzle falling from heaven to earth.

They look like purple, red and orange x-rays with big veins.

By Dominic

Leaves swaying down from the trees.

Red, orange and brown leaves.

The veins look like an x-ray.

They crack when people jump through them.

They crunch like rusty metal.

 By Oscar

Autumn leaves fall dancing and zig zagging.

They look like little boats on the water.

Before all the leaves fall from the trees they turn orange, yellow, red and purple.

The leaves are all crunching and crackling on the ground.

Some of the leaves are shaped like hearts and they fall slowly like an aeroplane landing on the ground.

By Alisha

Come and see them all in class!

Well done Room 2!!!

Bike wise pics

Check out some pics from our bike wise afternoon!!