Welcome to Term 2

Welcome back to Term 2.

I am so pleased with how settled all the children have come back to school, and having a great attitude towards their learning.

Thanks to all those parents who came to the Student Led Conference it was lovely to see you all again and meet some new parents. Those who could not make it in to school I have sent the learning journals home for you to look at. Can you please return the learning journals back to school as soon as you can.

This term holds some exciting things for us in room 2.

We have pink shirt day on 17 May which is a day to celebrating creating relationships with others and has an anti bullying message to go with it as well. The story behind it being pink is that a boy was teased for wearing a pink shirt, and he said it was ok to wear pink as a boy. So hence why it is called pink shirt day =)

Our assembly day is Thursday 30 May which you are all welcome to attend and see all the exciting learning we have being doing in room 2 over the term so far.

We are learning about taking care of our environment and using The Lorax as our inspiration towards that unit. We are still doing lots of exciting maths, reading, writing and loads of other activities to keep our brains engaged and learning.

Education Outside The Classroom 2013

EDUCATION OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM WEEK

Rooms 1, 2 and 3 enjoyed many activities over the past week for their education outside the classroom experiences.

Tuesday we had a teddy bears picnic in the multipurpose room as the weather was a little iffy. We all had fun having morning tea with our teddy bears and our friends while we listened to some great teddy bear stories.

Wednesday we walked up Mount Baldy. We took our morning tea up the mountain and did some sketching of the amazing view from the top. We were lucky with the weather and had an amazing adventure as we had to climb, hike and aviod the cow poo that was all over the ground ewwwww.

Thursday we had a trolly pushing derby. We had to get into groups of 3 and everyone had a turn at pushing their friends around the course and a turn at steering the trolly around the course. We had so much fun and big thanks to Basil for getting the trollys out of his shed. After our trolly derby we built huts with our friends. We had so much stuff to make our huts from such as boxes, tables, blankets and chairs

ROCKY SHORE

Over the past 4 weeks we have being looking at rock pool creatures. We had to group the rock pool creatures by using our imganations. In small groups we had to discuss and share with the class why we grouped our creatures the way we did.

Some interesting ideas we came up with

'we grouped these creatures together because they are slimy looking' - Chloe, Fox, Isabelle and Cheesie. 

'we grouped these creatures together because they all have hard shells' - Reia, Frances-Lily and Charlotte.

'we grouped these creatures together because they all have stinging tentacles' - Hudson, Joshua, Charlie, Jack and Kahu.

 'we grouped these creatures together because they have no eyes but are still able to move around' - Ahina, Cassidy, Brianna and Nellie - May.

'we grouped these creatures together because you can eat these creatures' - Sophie, Amara, Caitlin and Coco.

'we grouped these creatures together because they all have little holes in them' - Ben, Daneka, Ollie and Nils.

Welcome to Room 2 @ Te Uku School

WELCOME TO ROOM 2'S BLOG SPOT!!!

WOW!!! What a crazy busy term we have had some far.
We finally we have our own blog spot.
On this blog you can look and read about all the amazing things we have being getting up to in Room 2 with Miss Pickerill at Te Uku School.