Swimming

What an amazing time we had at our first swimming lesson. We were put into small groups and each group had a teacher. We spent time learning and practising the skills we need for swimming such as blowing bubbles, kicking and arm circles. 

Book Week

Here are the children from the amazing Room 13 dressed up for our costume parade. We have had a great week listening to different people read, working on our Eric Carle illustrations, writing our own Brown Bear stories and listening to a visiting author. 

Te Reo

In Year 2 we have a weekly Te Reo rotation. The children have a chance to work with their friends from other Year 2 classes and also to work with different teachers. Topics covered include Maori art, language skills, myths and waiata.

The group who are currently with Miss Everett have been making poi. Here are some of the finished ones. Everyone is looking forward to their turn to make poi.

Area

Which is bigger - your hand or your foot? How do you know? 

We answered these questions by using scrabble tiles to measure the surface area of our hands and feet. We used the tiles rather than the counters because the tiles are square and do not leave any gaps whereas the counters are round and do not fit together. 

Weight

Today we weighed our toys using a balance scale. We had to find something that weighed more than our toy, something that weighed less than our toy and something that weighed the same as our toy. We knew it is the same when the scale balanced. Then we estimated how many blocks weighed the same as our toy before we checked to see if we were correct.

Light

Today we used mirrors and torches to show that light travels in straight lines. We had to use the mirror to reflect the beam of light from the torch onto an object. Once we got good at that we used two mirrors. 

Writing about our toys

After morning tea we started planning a piece of writing about our toys. We know that it is important to plan as this helps us to think of lots of ideas and key words that we will use in our writing. If we spend time planning it makes writing much easier.