New Students

Welcome Eliza and Oliver to Room 2!

Sun Safety

We used our green hat thinking (creative thinking) to make a beach bag. Mrs Cody gave us a piece of material and we had to design and make our own bag. We were given a choice of 20 items to put in our beach bag to take to the beach. We were asked to choose 6 of the items. We had to think carefully about what to take so we would be safe in the sun. We chose wisely! Some of the things we took were, sun lotion, sun hat, glasses, drink bottle, lunch and a t-shirt.

Road Safety with Constable Julie

Questions for Constable Julie.

Constable Julie visited Room 2 on Friday 19th of February with her teddy bear friend ‘Officer Ted’. We got to have turns holding Officer Ted while we asked Constable Julie some questions about road safety, which we had been thinking about in class. Here are some of the questions we asked Constable Julie’s and her answers.

• How do traffic lights work?
-There are pressure pads under the road that measure how much traffic there is. This makes the lights work. Some lights will turn red to make traffic stop and other lights will turn green to let traffic go. The lights are designed to only let one lot of traffic go at a time to stop cars having crashes.

• Why do we have to walk on the footpath?
-the footpath is a safe place for people to walk.
-you are not allowed to ride your bicycle on the footpath.

• Why do you have to watch before you cross the road?
-You have to stop, look, and listen otherwise you might end up squished like a hedgehog or possum.

• Why do cyclists have to ride on the road?
-It is not safe for people walking if cyclists are on the footpath.
-If you are cycling on the road and are under 10 years old you have to have someone with you who is 10 years or older.

• What makes people crash?
-not allowed to use cell phones when driving now because they caused a lot of crashes.
-people not concentrating, being tired or distracted
-people reading maps or not looking at the road
-people driving too fast. Not allowed to drive faster than the speed signs even if you have a super duper-racing car!

• Why do we have to wear seatbelts?
-You have to make it click.
-If you are not buckled in and you are in a crash you can go flying out the window and get very hurt, a bit like a squished hedgehog or possum.

If you’re in the front seat
Or if you’re in the back
Click goes your seatbelt
Before you hit the track….

Traffic means anything that goes on the road! Not just cars but trucks, vans, bicycles, motorbikes etc….

Buddies

As part of our fitness programme we have been learning small ball skills. Our lovely Room 13 buddies helped us by demonstrating and guiding us how to throw an overarm and underarm pass. We also practiced rolling and catching a ball. It was a lot of fun!

Greedy Cat Descriptions
W.A.L.T. (we are learning to)

• Describe a character so the reader can close their eyes and imagine what the character looks like

• Use full stops and capital letters

Greedy cat is really greedy. His fur is scruffy and soft. He sneaks up and eats. He is fat. He always meows. He likes to play. Underneath his chin his fur is white. He has long whiskers. He ate all the sausages.

By Olivia



Greedy Cat is greedy. Katie is his friend. Greedy cat is fat. He is mean because he eats everything.

By Daniel


Greedy cat is greedy. She meows and meows and meows but nobody lets Greedy Cat have anything.

By Sophia


Greedy Cat is greedy she likes to sit by the fridge door and meows and meows. Greedy cat likes Katie. Nobody gave her food. Greedy cat likes food.

By Georgie


Greedy Cat is so greedy. He is fat. He always eats. He had ginger fur. He is very naughty.

By Leon


Greedy Cat is sneaky. He has ginger fur. He sneaks good snacks and he is hungry. Greedy Cat’s fat. He’s as big as Katie. No one will give him some food but Katie will because he is her friend.

By Kahu

Mathematics

We are learning numbers before 1 to 20, we would love to practice at home!

We are also learning about tally charts, pictographs and bar graphs. Today we used the food in our lunch boxes to make a tally chart. We remembered 4 lines and a line through the middle represents 5!

This term we are investigating different ways we stay safe, in the sun, in our classroom, around the playground, on the road and in the water.

Enjoy the links on our blog which relate to our inquiry

Swimming

Room 2 will be swimming on Wednesdays so don't forget your togs and a towel!

Our wonderful 2010 Room 2 class!