William's Puppy

Today William brought Ninnie, their new little puppy, to school to show us.  She is about ten weeks old  and is a real cutie!  Even Mrs. Heald , Mrs. E and Miss Hutchings couldn't resist having a hold  of Minnie.

Team One's Teddy Bears's Picnic

Today we brought some food and our teddy bears to school.  After we had been to visit our new classrooms for 2016, we walked up to the top field.  First of all we had the sack races, then the egg and spoon and then we had lunch.  Some people played Twister with Mrs. Heald.  We had a very special visitor come and he did a lolly scramble.

Team One's Wearable Art On Friday

Team 1 and 2 Tryathlon Today

Today we had our tryathlon down at Wai Splash.  We had to swim/walk 3 lengths , then either ride a bike or a scooter and finally do the run.  After that we had to run around the oval.

Payton's Maths Today

One of the Maths groups is learning to count on from the biggest number.  After working with Mrs, Bone the group had an activity where they turned over a number creature and then took turns rolling the dice to see how many to count on. Each person wrote down the corresponding number sentence.  Here is Payton's whiteboard with her answers.

Nature Study In "The Forest"

On Friday Room 2 went up to the "forest" over the bridge on the way to top field.  We spent about 45 minutes exploring.  We saw a little black door.  We wondered who /what lived behind it?

Discovery Day On Friday The 20th Of November

Blende's Magnetic Words

As part of our Reading taskboard we do magnetic letters once a week.  The words we write are all the words we have already had as rainbow words.  Blende did a wonderful job today.  Look at all his words:

Dannevirke South School Gala

Most of the children in Room 2 came to the Gala on Saturday.  Here are some of the activities you could do:

Swimming Lessons This Week

Swimming on Monday

Swimming on Friday

Today's IPad Stories

This Week's Maths

 We have been playing lots of place value games this week.

Today one group had a problem about 15 lollipops.  They had to put the nursery sticks into bundles of ten and put a rubber band around them.

In the next problem we had to get 17 nursery sticks and put 10 sticks into a bag.  We had one bag and seven left over.

Teara Reading

Teara read the Dr. Seuss book "Green Eggs and Ham" to our class today.  She did a fantastic job and is now reading it to Room 1.

Discovery Day 6th November

Team 1 & 2 Rugby World CupToday

For Team One and Two Sport today we were divided into 14 teams.  Each team had its own country and flag.  The rugby winners were South Africa lst, 2nd Georgia and 3rd France. We got our photos taken with our leaders from the winning teams. We all had fun - maybe we have some All Blacks in the making!

Room 2's Cross Country Stars

Today at Assembly the Cross Country place getters all got a certificate.  Here are all our children who came 1st, 2nd or 3rd.

Place Value in Maths

One of the Maths Groups was sorted so that everyone had a partner.  Each pair was given a pile of sticks and they had to put them into bundles of 10 to find out how many they had.  Since we had the IPads today they could take a photo to show how many they had.

We have also been using the slavonic abaci and will be using beans and buses also.

Today's IPad Stories

The Little Red Hen

One of our Fairytale activities is to build a windmill.  Here are Miley and Devon with their windmills:

Three Clever Mathematicians

This 100s Board has magnetic numbers.  For their Maths Activity today Mrs. Bone put about 5-8 numerals on and Sasha, Devon and TK had to put the rest on.  They did a fantastic job!

Team One and Two Cross Country

We had the Junior Cross Country today.  Some Room 2 children were in the 5 year olds and some were in the 6 year old races.

Aim High This Week

 TK, Devon and William for great work with learning their doubles to 20,

 Mya for her great spelling of Essential List 1 to 4,

and Azareah for getting the highest Writing Vocabulary Test score this year for her 6 year net.

Well Done to all of you!  Keep up the good work!

Room 2 Potters

We have been working with clay.  The first time we experimented with clay and then we made little pinch  pots by rolling the clay into a ball and pushing our thunbs slowly into the middle of the ball and moving our fingers around it.

Today we used the clay to make our own Webb Ellis Cups.

Black Out Day

To show our support for the All Blacks, everyone wore black clothes to school today.

Fair Sharing of Tiny Teddy Biscuits

Today Mrs. Bone brought some Tiny Teddy biscuits to school.  We were given some teddies and had to fair share them so everyone got the same amount.

2015 Pet Day

Our Visit from the S.P.C.A.

Today we had two human visitors and two dogs from the S.P.C.A. Laura came to talk to us about how to behave around dogs in preparation for tomorrow's Pet Day.

In her first slide Laura told us that you don't really know if a dog is going to bite or not just by looking at it.

 Then we talked about what to do if you see a dog running around at the park,

 meeting new dogs and being safe with the dogs that we know.

She also talked about being safe with our scooters.

ho came to talk to us about dog safety.

Discovery Learning 23rd October 2015

Today we had Discovery Day.  This term we are altering our Discovery Days to make them more a time of discovery and investigation.  The children are learning to take turns, problem solve and work at our key competencies of participating and contributing and thinking as well as being self managing.

Today's iPad Stories

   

Fair Shares

This week in Maths we are starting our unit on Fractions.  Today we looked at a numberjacks clip on You tube about Fair Shares. Then we shared the leaves with the koalas.  First of all we had 8 leaves and shared them with  2 koalas.  Later on we had 3 koalas and then 4 koalas that we had to share leaves with.

We also had objects such as brush and shovels, cups and saucers, watches and buckets and spades.Sometimes we had 2 people to share the items with and sometimes we had three people.