Hi my name is Brooke,

On Friday the 28^th we all wore bright bubbly colored clothes to school.

I like Daffodil Day because I know that I am supporting someone in the world that has cancer to keep on fighting and to never give up on their lives.

We supported them by coloring daffodil posters and making daffodil art. 

WHAT HAVE I BEEN WORKING ON IN MATHS?                                

In Circles maths group I have been learning about smart splits. Smart splits is when you go 595+8. You have to split the 8 into a 5 and a 3 so that 595 + 5 = 600. Then you add 3 and that makes 603. 

By Esther

Our Learning - Term 2 Week 3

What have we been learning this week??

Esther - I've been learning to use speech marks in my writing.

Lucy - I know how to skim and scan words when I'm reading.

Zanthie - I've used contractions in my writing including the words can't and I'll.  I've also used apostrophes.

Talia  - I understand what contractions are.  For example, Cannot would become can't and do not would become don't.

Peepi  - During reading I know how to make inferences by finding clues in texts.

Brooke  - I know how to group my ideas into paragraphs in my writing. I have also been measuring equalateral triangles using a protractor.

Annabella - I've been using paragraphs in my writing.

Hannah - I understand what contractions are because they are just shortened words like she'll.

Jayden - I've been learning about how people used to live and what children did in the old days. Life was hard back then.

Oscar - I've been learning how to measure ingredients and make bread and butter pudding.  I had three helpings of it.

What have we been learning? Term 2 Week 2

Room 2

Esther - This week I've been learning how to measure area and shapes.

Oscar - I have been learning how many grams are in 1 kilogram, 1/2 kilogram and 1/4 kilogram.

Jayden - This week I've been synthesising which means using my knowledge and what I read in    books to create a new idea.

Peepi - I know how to make inferences when I'm reading by using the clues in books.

Brooke - This week I've been learning to measure the angle of triangles.

Annabella - I know how to measure the angles in a triangles using a protractor and all the angle add up to 180 degrees.

Sophia - I know how to create a 'shadow' painting using black paint.

Jackson - This week I've been measure areas of shapes using square centimetres.

Zanthie - I've been learning about area and shapes.

Crawling on the Somme Battlefield!

Hi,

This term we are bringing our writing alive by making, doing and exploring activities and events.  So far we have cooked pancakes, made kites and crawled on the Somme battlefield.  The aim is for the children to experience an event and then draw upon their own senses and feelings to write about it.  This has allowed each child to experiment, take a risk and be creative, which is what we aim for all our children to do. 

When we made our battlefield, we made tunnels and trenches to crawl through.  Each child had to wear their backpacks and the sound of bombs exploding and bullets firing were played from the laptop.  This allowed the experience to be more life like and afterwards the children shared some amazing feelings and language to explain what they were thinking.  The activity also supported our unit topic of belonging and investigating how the soldiers in WW1 were apart of a group.

Cooking with Chris Fortune

Hello All,

Room 2 children recently had the opportunity to cook with Chris Fortune and had a fantastic time.  The children took part in helping Chris prepare and cook food and shared their ideas about the importance of wholesome food.  Hannah and Maia was chosen to be the Du Chef and were second in command.  The best part for a lot of children was tasting the food, which included pasta that was actually made from bread and french crepes.