Outrageous Musicians

 

On Friday we had a String group come and play classical music to our school. It was great. They made up stories and did the sound effects using their instruments and different coins.

Penny worked with us at Reading time to make our own sounds on some string instruments. We wrote down the names of the sounds to make some poems.

 

We cut and pasted some words from our music and made some poetry.

 Here are the poems from our new people to Room 2. We are so excited to have our full class next term. When we have permission from the parents of our new children we will have some pictures of our full class.

Dusting

Drumming

Dancing

Dancing

Slurping 

Stormy

Shooting

By Andrew

Tapping

Clapping

Scratching

Shooting

Smacking

By Shahad 

 

Marching the guards

Shooting

Slithering snake

Croaking

Vampire

Stormy

By Sophie

 

Banging

Dusting

Drumming

Slurping

Dusting

By Amleie 

Tip-toe

Smooth

Dancing

Engine roar

Hammering

Dusting

By Isabelle

Screetching

Engine roar

Tip-toe

By Jake

Sawing

Chirping

Smooth

Drumming

Drumming

Sawing

Smooth

Cracking

Sawing

Dancing

By Charlotte

Butterfly Release

Bye Butterfly

I named the butterfly Fareyana. It took a long time for the beautiful butterfly to come. Mrs Walker put it outside for it to fly and I love the butterfly. It ate a lot of swan plant, munch, munch.
Leena

 Bye Butterfly

The butterfly has pretty spots.
Tarrah-Bramble

Bye Butterfly

I love the butterfly because it has spots with black and orange.
Oliver

Bye Butterfly

I like the butterfly. It can open its wings and fly away.
Angelique

Bye Butterfly

I like the butterfly; I hope it can get away where a falcon can not get it.
Zadyn

Bye Butterfly

The butterfly is cute and cool.
Hira

Bye Butterfly

I like the colours of the butterfly.
Vigo

Bye Butterfly

I saw a rainbow butterfly and she was in the flower.
Charlotte

Bye Butterfly

The butterfly is so beautiful and soft. I like how they are orange and black.
Joe

Bye Butterfly

I liked having the butterflies in our class.
William G

Bye Butterfly

I love the butterfly because it had sparkly spots and the orange things that look like hills and bumps. It looks like the only one from the museum.
Tyne

Bye Butterfly

I love the butterfly because it is pretty. The butterfly made the classroom beautiful. I love it.
Tinaania

Bye Butterfly

Last week a butterfly came out of its pupa and it flapped its wings and everyone curled around it. We briskly walked to the top court to release it. People talked on our video.
William P

Bye Butterfly

The butterfly is spotty with orange and black wings.
Fergus

Bye Butterfly

The butterfly is waiting for the sun.
Ryan

Me and My Shadow

We have had plenty of sunny days to trace around our shadows. We traced around them at different times of the day . We noticed that our shadows moved. For home learning some people made a sundial. Sundials work in the same way as our shadows. We traced around our feet so we always stood in the same place. Some of us were very scientific and wrote the time when we recorded our shadow. One day there was no sun so we couldn't trace our shadow, some people even recorded the weather conditions in their experiment.

Bubbles

We blew some bubbles and wrote some stories about them.  We made some bubble art to go with our poem on Friday.

Bubbles

Bubbles went over the brick wall.

Down, down, down.

Pop.

Hira

  

Bubbles

Bubbles

Bubbles

Up

Pop

Vigo

Bubbles

Bubbles, bubbles,

They went over the letter snake.

Pop

Tyne

Ginny and Small Ball Skills in the Hall

We had Ginny in the hall this morning for some small ball skills. We will have some follow up homework so we are really good next time we have her. Some of the drills were tricky but the challenge was fun.

We played a game called opposites, you had to do the opposite of what Ginny said. It was tricky and funny to watch.

Roadworks at School

We had roadworks outside of our school this week. We went out to watch them and wrote these stories.

Video to come.

Roadworks

The truck shot tarseal. The truck looked like it had flat tires. The truck was like a crane. The tarseal looked like chocolate. The truck was really dirty. The truck was cool.

William P

Roadworks

The tarseal is going into the truck.

Zadyn

Roadworks

The smell was like it smelt like the tarseal.

Oliver

Roadworks

The tarseal came off the conveyer-belt like a waterfall.

Angelique

Roadworks

I saw a truck that had a conveyer-belt with lines in the conveyer-belt. It shot tarseal out of it. It looked like woodchips.

Tyne

Roadworks

The tarseal flew into the truck.

Vigo

Roadworks

The tarseal shot into the truck.

William G

Roadworks

The truck went back, beep, beep, beep.

Ryan

Roadworks

We looked at the roadworks. They sounded like stones falling in a bucket and it was really noisy and it was fun. The ground was shaking and we came into our room.

Leena

Roadworks

I looked at the truck and it was amazing.

Tarrah-Bramble

Roadworks

I like the truck and sometimes we miss the truck.

Charlotte

Roadworks

The man went in the truck and ran over the tarseal.

Joe

Roadworks

I saw the trucks today. They were growling.

Tinaania

Roadworks

I like the roadworks.

Fergus

The Starlab in our Hall

The Starlab came to our school hall. 

Read some of our writing about the visit.

Starlab was fun and it was dark. It smelt like stars. 

By Oliver

I saw Starlab today and I went into Starlab in the tunnel. 

By Tinaania.

We went to Starlab. We crawled through. 

By Fergus.

We went in the Starlab one at a time. There was a person who got stung in the stars (a constellation). ByWilliam P

I went to Starlab. I climbed down the hole like a squirrel. By Zadyn

Space Art

We have made some beautiful pictures of space to hang in our classroom. We made them like a spray-paint artist would by colouring our planets and making some planet covers to protect them. Spray-paint artists use plates or potlids. We watched them on youtube.

Then we used sponges to put black all over our pictures. It was messy and our room was smelly.

The last step  was to peel off the covers we made and throw them away. You can see our beautiful planets that were protected underneath.

Now the fun part, we flicked white paint all over the room and some of it landed on our space pitcures. Mrs Walker has a star covered jacket to wear on duty.

You can see all of our finished pictures on our Art Gallery page. See the page menu along the top of our blog or just click here.

Seed Pods

We have been working on lots of observational drawings of lots of natural objects. We are using these to focus our talking and thinking about these objects. We are trying to improve our observation skills and use lots of interesting describing language. We write about our observations after we have worked with each natural object. These are some photos of us looking at seed pods from the harakeke (flax) plants outside our classroom. Ryan noticed a dried pod on the ground one day at fitness, we wondered what it was and where it had come from. When we looked up we saw the other pods, they are the flowers of the flax. We thought we could learn a lot from looking at it. We thought the lines on the pods were very beautiful.

Some of our observations are below.

We looked at seed pods. I noticed the seed pods were shaped like a banana. By Leena.

I had a seed pod and we drew them. By Joe.

We looked at seed pods. I saw it was brown. By Angelique.

The Room 2 Team

Swimming

Swimming lessons have been lots of fun. Here are some pictures of us at our swimming lessons. Thank you so much to all of the parents who have joined us at the pool and helped us keep track of most of our bits and pieces. Swimming lessons this Friday have had to be changed; there is no swimming this week. Our last session for Term 1 will be next Thursday the 21st March.