A special start to term 2

We read some special stories about world War One and made poppies. We put our poppies under the tree by the flag with our buddies.

 The whole school came to a special ANZAC Ceremony.

Mr Muschamp played the Last Post for us.

ANZAC from Annette on Vimeo.

New for Term 2

There are two new things in this Room 17 photo. Do you know what they are?

1. Amariah, who visited us from the University of Canterbury. She is learning to be a Speech Language Therapist.
2. New desks. They make our classroom very colourful.

Maths

Demi and Lily have counted all the way to 20.

We learned some new maths games. We had to know our adding facts to 5 and 10 really well to play these games.

Letter of the Week Hh

This week we have become experts about the letter H!
We found out how a hovercraft works...

Thanks to Max for taking these photos.

We learned how to draw helicopters and wrote stories about a rescue helicopter...

Rescue Helicopter from Annette on Vimeo.

Listen to the stories by Jayden, Lukas, Max, Milla, Zayne, Aaliyah, Chloe and Eli while you watch us draw.

We practised writing the letter H. We did an amazing job - we are now Hh experts!


Perfect Printing from Annette on Vimeo.

We made mini hamburgers. We all had jobs to do to. Some of us are really good with a peeler and grater. The hamburgers were yummy! Thank you Simon for helping us.


Mini Hamburgers from Annette on Vimeo.

Show Time

Here is our musical.....

Ants and Grasshoppers from Annette on Vimeo.

Librarians' vsit

Today two librarians from the Christchurch public libraries came to visit. There were lots of laughs and good stories.
They say everyone should have a free library card to be able to borrow the books, DVDs, magazines and online resources. Have you got your library card?

Fraction Fun

What do pizza, sushi balls and chocolate blocks have in common?

....They can be cut in half and quarters!
We used our imaginations and pretended to make food out of kinetic sand. Then we cut our creations into 1/2s and 1/4s.

Q words

We have been learning about the letter Q. We made these colourful quilts.

Co-operative skills

We worked together to make our new number charts. They look great!

Our Mini Musical - The Ants and The Grasshoppers - in progress...

We have made costumes, painted scenery and made props.
We have practised our lines and dancing.
It is not so easy to remember what to say, when to come on stage and when to stand still. Not to mention keeping our hats on our heads!!
But we are getting better and are just about ready to present our play.
Invitations coming soon. Here is a sneak preview...

Storyteller (Lukas)

The Grasshoppers

The Ants

Team Waka builds a waka

We made our waka at developmental.

Tino pai! Great team work and problem solving Team Waka

A big thank you

... to Jackson (and his Mum) who gave us some equipment to use with the sand or playdough. We had great fun trying out some of the utensils.