Term 3, Week 3 - FRIDAY Winter Olympic lunches :)

This week's fabulicious Friday Winter Olympic lunches are:  delicious pies for $2.50, and thirst-quenching drinks for $1.00.  Remember to have your orders in by Thursday :)

Term 3, Week 2 - FRIDAY Winter Olympic lunches :)

This week's Friday fantastic Winter Olympic lunches are:  yummy nachos for $3.00, and delicious drinks for $1.00.  :)

Term 3, week 1 and 2 in Room 2...

WOW!! We have a full on term ahead of us this term!!  Some of the exciting events are:  Speeches, Cross country, School Disco, and in Week 6 - the Winter Olympics.

My Time:
Room 2 will have My Time research projects again this term on Wednesday afternoons.  The students will carryover their same topics as last term for this term, weeks 1-5.  Then they have weeks 7-9 to prepare their My Time presentations, with presentations taking place week 9.  (Those students who wish to change topics have 2 weeks to prepare and present their My Time learning presentations, and then they may change topics after that.)

Inquiry:
This terms Inquiry is The Olympic Games, focussing on the controversial issues of The Games.

Speeches:
Week 1's home learning the students are to finalise their speech topic - this is to be discussed and approved by Ms Trow on Friday morning.

Being that we are extra busy this term with practising for upcoming events, the weekly timetable for speech preparations will be:

Week 1:  Choose topic

Week 2:  Time in class to write your speech

Week 3:  Practice your speech - to be 3-4 minutes, on cue cards.  (We will have 1 minute "on the spot" speeches in class to practice speech-making this week).

Week 4:  In class speeches - the best 2 year 7's and 3 year 8's to be chosen by Friday to go through to the school finals in Week 5.

Week 5:  School speech finals.

Week 3 assembly:
This term we are doing a class item at week 3's assembly - we will be doing a dance item, and are busy deciding on a song this week and practising our moves from next week :)

Have a great week everyone :)

Term 3, Week 1 - Winter Olympic lunches :)

This week's Winter Olympics lunch is awesome American Hotdogs for $2.50 each and delicious drinks for $1.00 each.  Please place your orders by Wednesday for the lunches on Thursday :)

Term 2, Week 10 - Winter Olympic lunches :)

This week's Winter Olympics lunch is pleasing pies for $2.50 each and delectable drinks for $1.00 each.  Please place your orders by Wednesday for the lunches on Thursday :)

Room 2 - Week 9 and 10, Term 2

Week 10:

WOW!!! The last week of term 2 is here already!!  This week we will hold our Inquiry 'Time' presentations - starting Wednesday :)

This week's Winter Olympics lunch is pleasing pies for $2.50 each and delectable drinks for $1.00 each.  Please place your orders by Wednesday for the lunches on Thursday :)

This Thursday we finished our My Time Projects - we will be presenting our research projects in Term 3.  Here we are during our final My Time session:

Finishing our Term 2 My Time projects on PhotoPeach


Week 9:

This week we have Parent Teacher interviews on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.  We would love all our parents to attend - if you haven't booked yet, please contact the office or Ms Trow direct to make a time.

Homework this week is to finish our individual time project ready for presentation tomorrow.  We are making a model of an aspect of time that we are presenting on.  Some examples of our research projects are:  the moon and its phases, the tides, the seasons, calendars, space, the earth and sun, and wormholes in space.

For our presentation we are making a model to present to.  Our presentation research will include:  What our time topic is, How this effects our lives, Any experiments we have undertaken for our research, What we've learnt in our research.

This week's Winter Olympics lunch fundraising was nice nachos and delicious drinks.

Week 7 & 8 in Room 2, Term 2

Week 8:

This week the student's homework is to finish publishing their History writing - they can hand write it if they have no internet connection at home.  They need to have their history topic brief (a paragraph or two) with their "what if" story after the brief.  We have been researching history events that interest us, and then thinking about "what if" it never happened?  Writing about what life would be like - the pros and cons - if that event never happened...  There are some great ideas coming through :)  Some student's have finished their published writing, so they have no other homework this week - just reading and spelling :)



Week 7:

Wednesday night the school had its Matariki celebration with the community.  What an awesome night!  The Rec Centre was beautifully decorated, with our class posters on display too.  The school Kapa Haka performed for us, and were amazing - well done group, especially Johnny who moved a lot of the audience with his powerful leadership :)  We then had a hangi and ended with a Matariki video presentation and a group Waiata.

For My Time on Thursday afternoons, the class is researching skills and activities that they are interested in and they will present back their learning at the end of the term.  Here we are in our 2nd week of My Time research:


Room 2 My Time research in Week 7 on PhotoPeach