Our first week in photos

First assembly of 2016

Planning for writing with labelled pictures 

We got a special visitor - 'Strike' the Guinea pig, came to visit all the children of Room 8. He was very popular too! 

We started using our class iPads to take photos of each other, but mostly of Mrs Blau. We learnt an important lesson. If you accidentally put your finger over the lens, your finger ends up in the photo! Oops!! 

Mrs Blau read us The Rainbow Fish story. We discussed being kind and how sharing can make us feel good, as well as happy, just like the Rainbow Fish. Then Mrs Blau taught us how to draw a Rainbow fish. We did a pretty good job, using shapes and lines. We had to get the proportion right, so it would fill up the page. Lots of maths and drawing learning was done by all. Spatial awareness is very important and we definitely learnt that while drawing our fish. This is stage one of our project. 

Welcome to Room 8, 2016

We are a Year 2 class that is eager to share our learning with the world...

We are looking forward to sharing photos of some of the learning we are going to be doing in our class this year. As well as some small videos and uploads from apps that we will be using throughout the year on our iPads. 

Please feel free to pop by anytime and leave us a comment.

We are loving our writing clinics with Mrs Blau...

Here is our group during and after our writing clinic with Mrs Blau. We are learning to write a sentence and we are so proud of ourselves because we were successful.

Our special 'writing clinic' tools

We can write a sentence...!

We love our writing clinics - today we practised writing a sentence. 

We feel so accomplished.

Week 7 Shield Winner

Congratulations to...

Yiwu

For learning all 60 basic sight words 

and all the Jolly Phonics letters and sounds

You are a 

STAR

 

Room 8 reads... Wishy-Washy Mouse

listen to ‘Wishy-Washy Mouse’ on audioBoom

Making Mataariki Stars

We are creating Mataariki stars using a mosaic style collage. We have to keep our shiny paper inside the lines. It can be a bit tricky, but we are up for the challenge. 

Look! We can write a sentence...!

Look, how clever are we...?

We are learning how to write a sentence.

Room 8 Reads The Farm Concert - by Joy Cowley

listen to ‘The Farm Concert’ on audioBoom

Zoo Trip 2015

We had such a fabulous time at Auckland Zoo. Here is our group. Mrs Blau was our Zoo guide - we got to feed the giraffe which was the highlight of our day!! We were also very lucky to have such wonderful weather too. Here are some of the photos Mrs Blau took of us. We loved having our photo taken and we asked Mrs Blau to take them when we got to different enclosures.