WAL About Compound Words

"I can find compound words.

I can read them and say what the two words are.

I found my own words on the word-card and in the book too.  I know some in my head.

Sometimes I get mixed up with contractions."

WALT Write Adjectives

We have been learning to add  describing words to our stories 

to make them more interesting.

Here is a quick describing activity that we did in class.  

We got to choose what animal we wanted to write about.

We used TAGUL to make them into word clouds.

Sometimes it's tricky to think of describing words.  I can ask the person next to me for help.  I will show resilience by trying my best and lots of practise.

Showcase Term 4 - Wearable Art

Wearable Art with a Pacific flavour!

Room 9 have spent the last 2 terms creating 2 pieces of Wearable Art.

The first piece was a t-shirt with a painted picture that reminded us of the Pacific.

The girls chose to sketch and paint a Pasifika flower.

The boys chose to draw a sea turtle.

Inside each of these drawings were patterns that we had explored and seen displayed in 

Pasifika artworks.  We practised by sketching these into our art books.

The second artwork created by the girls were hula skirts.  We reused plastic bags and tied them together as we worked in pairs.  At first it was a little tricky but the more we did, the better we got at tying them together.  Like they say - practise makes perfect!

The second artwork displayed by the boys was a Lavalava or Pareu (sarong) 

to compliment their t-shirts. 

 We had a lot of help from Mrs Kong to complete the sarongs, painting of the t-shirts and in the construction of our hula skirts in time for the art show so a BIG THANK YOU to her for all her help!  We couldn't have done it without you.

We hope you enjoy our wonderful creations ... Tamure tamure, e te muremure ra...

WALT Write a Cinquain Poem

WALT Write a Cinquain Poem

Lollies

Small, Round

Sweet, Yummy, Nice

I like eating lollies

Candy

Reflection:

"I like writing sometimes. I like writing about Rainbows End. I need to remember

to put in capitals and fullstops."

WALT Retell What We Have Read

Abbie's Reflection:

"I like reading.  I like reading about Budgies - non-fiction stories because I have one at home.  My mum helps me when I get stuck on the words.  I liked the story about Hatupatu."

Showcase - Wheels Day

On Wednesday 22nd of August, the Year 2 children participated in Wheels Day. We were showcasing another way we could get to school in conjunction with our school Travelwise programme.

Maths - WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes

WAL about Geometry.

We have learnt that "Geometry" means shapes.  

We already knew a lot about 2D shapes so spent most of our time learning about 3D shapes.  We went on a shape treasure hunt around the school and took photo's of lots of different 3D shapes.  Some were easy to find and others were hard but it was lots of fun!  We made shape monsters using some of the shapes we had learnt about.

Abbie's Reflection:
"I liked learning about 3D shapes.  I learnt that an octagon has 8 sides.  It was easy.  I liked the shape hunt because we had to find different shapes around the school."