Friday with Ms Gain

PEAK DALE FARM BOOK STUDY

Corridor of Thought

Our Class Map of Peak Dale Farm

FLAT STANLEY PROJECT

Stanley is Flattened by a Bulletin Board

Flat Stanley Folds Himself up in an Envelope

Flat Stanley is Posted Away for an Adventure

FACES OF ROOM 2

PEAK DALE FARM BOOK STUDY

This morning Ms Gain started reading us a chapter book called ‘A Calf Called Valentine’. We worked together as a class to recall how the author had described the farm and some of us took turns to scribe the information. Others in the class gave their ideas to the scribes and some helped with sounding out words. We then made a class collective map of the book’s setting: Peak Dale Farm. We all made different things to go on our map using information from the book. Our farm had a farmhouse, a red tractor, 2 barns, cows, sheep, a horse called Silver, chickens, owls in trees, a croft, fields, a river that went past, and an old stony bridge.

We then talked about the different characters in the story. We made a list of all the characters and then we made a Role on the Wall for the character Anna. We drew a picture of Anna and on the outside of her body we wrote things about what she looked like. On the inside of her body we wrote words that described how she felt when she arrived at Peak Dale Farm. We then made a corridor of thought where we stood in two lines facing each other. One person walked down the middle and, as they walked past each person in the corridor, they spoke aloud thoughts that may have been running through Anna’s head on her first day at Peak Dale Farm. We all thought of one thought that Anna might be thinking and then spoke it aloud in the corridor of thought. Here are some of thoughts that were spoken aloud:

“I miss my mum”

“I want to go home”

“This is house is scary”

“Its dark”

“Its cold”

“I wish I was at home”

“The stairs are creaky, I’m scared”

“I don’t want to stay here”

“I wish I could see my mum”

“This place is strange”

ENRICHMENT

On every second Friday this term we will be doing Enrichment for one hour before lunch. For Enrichment we get to work with different children and teachers in the junior syndicate. We are all in different Enrichment groups, which are a mixture of children from all the different junior classes from new entrants to year 2. In Enrichment we get to do art, music, drama, singing, and more!

FLAT STANLEY PROJECT

Back in Room 2 with Ms Gain after lunch, we started a Flat Stanley project. Flat Stanley is a book by Jeff Brown about a boy named Stanley who is flattened by a bulletin board and becomes as flat as a pancake. Because he is flat he is able to fold up and travel in an envelope, and in this way he travels around the world on lots of adventures. We are each making our own Flat Stanley to post away in an envelope to someone we know in a different city/country. We are looking forward to hearing about the adventures our Flat Stanley will go on and seeing photos of him travelling in a different city. Flat Stanley will help us learn all about interesting places all around the world.

ALSO….

Come and see the photos of all the faces in Room 2, today we put them on the wall in our atelier.

Wish bone in Vinegar

On Thursday we put a wishbone in vinegar to see what changes will take place. We will leave it for one week then take it out to have a look and a feel!

We discussed and wrote about what we think will happen. These were some of our ideas, the wishbone will change colour, new skin will grow, it will disappear, it will shrink and it will go soft.

We will blog what happens!!

Changes Chemistry Experiment

Can something be a solid and a liquid at the same time? Sounds impossible! What do you think?
Some of the class didn’t think so whereas some related it to the concept of water being a liquid then freezing into a solid and then melting back to liquid so thought it was possible.

EXPERIMENT

What we used:
Corn flour
Water

What we did:
1. Placed a cup of cornflour into a large bowl.
2. Added about ½ a cup of water and mixed to a thick paste
3. The power is solid. The water is liquid. Do you think the mixture will be a solid or a liquid?
4. Actually, it was both! With our hands we grabbed a handful of mixture. It became firm. As soon as we stopped rolling it in our hands we watched it turn back to liquid.


What happens
As it is in the bowl the mixture is liquid. It’s only water with powder floating in it. However when we roll it, the water molecules are forced into the middle of each grain of powder so the mixture becomes solid.

Learning about ANZAC Day with Ms Gain

Today there were lots of people wearing red poppies and the whole school had a special ANZAC day assembly. In class we talked about why people wear red poppies and what ANZAC day was about. We brainstormed what we knew about ANZAC day and decided we knew a little bit about it but we wanted to find out more.

What we knew:

-There is a type of biscuit called an ANZAC biscuit.

-On ANZAC day you wear red poppies

-On ANZAC day you remember and thank the people who fought in the war (only a couple of us knew this).

We read a story called ‘My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day’, which was about a little girl who gets up very early, at dawn, on ANZAC day to watch her Grandad march in a parade. We then came up with some questions.

Our questions and some answers that we found:

1. What is memorial? (some of us thought it was a shop or a church)

A place where you remember something important that has happened. It might be a statue, a tree, a building, or a special sign.

2. What is a bugle? (mentioned in the story we read)

It is a musical instrument like a trumpet.

3. What do you do on ANZAC day?

You can go to a dawn ceremony and parade where soldiers who have fought in wars and their families march to remember everyone who fought and helped in the war. You can buy and wear a red poppy to remember also and the money you use to buy the poppy helps the army and people who have fought in wars.

4. Why do we wear red poppies?

Red poppies grew on the fields where soldiers in the first world war fought.

5. What does ANZAC stand for?

Australia and New Zealand Army Corps

6. How do people marching in the parade feel?

Happy because the war is finished. Sad when they remember the war and how hard it was and how many people died. Proud to have fought in the war and kept their country safe.

7. Who was in the war?/ Were girls allowed in the war?

There were soldiers who fought and people who looked after the soldiers, like medical people.Girls were not allowed in the first world war but helped more in the second world war, but not as soldiers. There were also animals who helped in the war and even some who won medals! We were really surprised that there were animals in the war so we looked at some animals that helped in the war.

We learnt about donkeys who helped carry water to soldiers who needed it on the field after fighting and also helped carry soldiers that had been badly hurt back to their home bases so they could be helped by doctors.

We also learnt about carrier pigeons that helped soldiers who needed help in the fields to get emergency messages to their home bases. Here is what we learnt:

Pigeons can fly home without any person pointing out the way.

Rufus.

Pigeons carried notes to help people in the war.

Noah.

Pigeons can save people.

Holly.

There was a pigeon called Cher Ami. She won a medal for flying bravely even though she got wounded.

Bridie.

The notes are tied onto the pigeon’s leg.

Sam.

Notes were put in small inch sized containers.

Bridie.

Pigeons take messages to the men at home base.

Georgi.

Pigeons can fly to your home without out pointing to your house.

Henry.

In the photo you can see our pigeons we drew. We tried writing small notes to our own homes, imagining that we had our own carrier pigeon in class with us who we could release and would then fly home with a message. We rolled up our small notes and attached them to our pigeons’ legs. We also visited Room 3 to show them our pigeons and told them about what we had learnt. Some of the messages we tied onto our pigeons:

Mum, come back for another hug

Georgi

I forgot my lunch, please bring it.

Alana

Don’t forget I’m having Muritai Munchies on Friday.

Leon

I love you all

Daniel

Mum, how about I watch TV tonight, Jetro

Oscar

To mum, I will see you at school when school ends

love from Bridie.

Hi Mum. Thank you for doing my spelling this morning.

Jack.

Hi Tabbie and Suzi

Knock knock

Who’s there

Don’t

Don’t who?

Don’t forget to pick me up.

Kahu.

Mum, how about we have pizza for tea.

Edward.

Mum, please can I go home at lunch tomorrow?

Noah.

Sam, Mum, and Dad.

I love you mad! With lots of love,

Olivia.

Painting

We have been learning to mix two primary colours ( red, blue and yellow) together to make a secondary colour.
Here are some photos of our colourful flowers!



Come into Room 2 and check out the rest of our beautiful flowers!

Photo Booth

We used Photo Booth on the laptops to experiment taking photos of ourselves, we had a lot of fun! Here are some photos of us

Eastbourne Fire Station Visit

On Friday we walked to the fire station. I saw a huge fire truck! Everybody got a turn inside the fire truck. I heard people chatting about how big it was. It was giant! We got a good go at the hose. The water went so wide that I squirted one of the cars! It was so funny because there was water all over the car! I squirted the teacher as well! She was so wet! She ran and ran and ran. She stood on top of a chair and ducked into the garden. Finally we walked to our class.

By Olivia


We walked to the fire station and we had a turn of the hose. We went into the fire engine. Then we went inside and we talked about fire alarms and we got a bag. We went back to school and did handwriting. Finally we had lunch.

By Kahu