Our Identity

Room 2 have been exploring their identity as part of our Whanaungatanga topic.  Here are some of our identity artworks (done with Whaea Toni as part of our Te Reo lessons) and our explanations of why we used the particular symbols that we did.

I think you will agree that they did a fantastic job!

I will keep adding to this post as they are completed so please keep checking back if your child's is not here yet, some of us are still finishing off on Monday.

Celebrating Clever Chorus!

Chorus has been learning about how to be a great bucket filler and how it sometimes means taking care of others before ourselves.  We have been exploring the story Horton Hatches the Egg, here is her example of how Horton showed he was a bucket filler while looking after his egg...

In maths Chorus has been learning how to add with the number 5.  Here is her clever work in maths adding on to the number 5:

Chorus we love your smiley attitude to learning in Room 2!

Tamaiti Mua

Kia ora whanau!

Part of our Tamaiti Mua initiative is total collaboration between home and school.  I invite you to join us on ClassDojo.

Today I have sent you an invitation to join your child's account, from here you can view how they are going in class, their homework tracking etc.  I can also send you messages and images if your child has done something during the day that they are particularly proud of.

Our blog is where we celebrate learning but there are times during the day where I can share individual's progress directly with you.  I am all about blasting the walls of our classroom away, where you can access your child's learning and progress anytime, from anywhere.  All you need is your phone.

The invitation your child brings home with them today has a crossed out section (I have already got this part up and running) and a highlighted code with instructions, this part is for your information so that you can connect with us.

Here is an example of what your invitation looks like:

See you on ClassDojo!

Super Statistics!

In our class we are learning about statistics and how to carry out a statistical investigations.

Our teacher has shared our learning intentions with us.  By the end of this week we will be able to:

• Pose questions for investigation
• Collect category data
• Display data in tally charts, uniform pictograms & bar charts
• Make statements about data displays
• Collect data looking for trends and talking about these using evidence (what the data shows).

Here is the first session where Mrs C introduced us to statistics, what it is all about and how to gather information.  

We couldn't remember much about statistics from earlier years at school.  It has been a long time between graphs!

We decided to find out which Superhero is Room 2's favourite.  Here are photos of some of us filling out a tally chart:

This is what our tally chart looked like at the end.  You can see some of the questions that Mrs C asked us about the data.  Keep checking back to see us carrying out our own statistical investigations.  Ask us about what we have been learning and what we found out!

 

Celebrating our Experts in Te Reo Maori

Every Wednesday a lucky group from Room 2 get to go with Whaea Clare to learn Te Reo Maori.  Sometimes Mrs C is just as lucky and gets to go too.  We love learning more about this beautiful language. Mrs C didn't get to come this week but this was not a problem for our experts, they came back and shared their learning with us.

Ka pai Tamariki!  Here they are teaching us a new waiata....

Room 2 Genius Hour Wonderings

We have had a few Thursdays where Mrs C has been at meetings etc so today we spent a whole block on Genius Hour. We have recorded our wonderings so that we could share them with you. Please help us at home if we want to find out more about our question.  We love Genius Hour especially because we get to choose what we learn about in this time.

 Enjoy listening to our wonderings...



Here are some photos of us working during Genius Hour in our brain-pools.

WALT: SUBITIZE!!!

In Room 2 we are having fun challenging Mrs C with our instant recognition of number patterns to 10.  It is really important that we know these and can recall them straight away.  Mrs C has noticed that some of us are still learning this so she has challenged us to beat her in being able to say and show with our fingers the number of dots without thinking.

Help us to practice this at home so that we can beat our teacher!

Here is a clip that we have been using to help us to practice: