Badminton

This week we were lucky enough to take part in some modified Badminton. Charlie came along from a local badminton club to teach us some of the moves we need play. We started off with a balloon each hitting it up with just our hands. We found that with little taps we could control the balloon more but with big hits we could get the balloon to go further. We buddied up to hit the balloon to each other to practice getting the balloon to go in the direction we wanted. Charlie then gave us each a badminton racket to carry out the same moves. We noticed that if we swung the racket underarm the balloon would go up and if we swung it overarm the balloon would go down.

This was a lot of fun and we can't wait to have her back again in the next couple of weeks.

Orchestra Trip - Term 2, Week 7

This week the whole of the Junior School were lucky enough to go and see the Symphony Orchestra perform for us at St Margaret's College.  

The kids were so excited to go on the bus - on the way I asked them where they thought we were going and what an orchestra was:

Xaria: "A bus filled with a lifty up bit with heaps of instruments in it"

Madi: "You have a conductor in the orchestra"

Taliah: "A band"

Aiden: " We going to another class they going to teach us.  They play instruments"

Jett: "A party"

Olivia: "People play the violin" 

Chelsea: " I think it has a conductor to make it play music and it has a conductor sticky thing"

Phoenix: "Play instruments"

Kaiya: "Where all people dance and do gymnastics and sing"

Hunter: "We might see the museum"

Shae: "I think its a big palace that has people that sing"

Amber and Irakehu were unsure but very excited to find out....

The Orchestra went through the four different families that makes up the Orchestra - 'Wood Winds', 'Brass', 'Harp and Percussion', and 'String'.  Each with their unique sound. The Brass section even played to us on a garden hose!  We got to vote on what melody, harmony and rhythm we liked and they played these all together as dictated by us.  

Back at school we talked a lot about the different instruments, what we liked about them, how they looked and sounded.  We hope to get to have a go on some of these instruments ourselves later in the term.  

Samoan Language Week 25th - 31st May

On Friday we were lucky enough to have Jett's dad come into Room 2 and teach us some Samoan language.  We learnt how to say numbers 1-10, different greetings & goodbyes and a fun song.

hello = talofa or malo

goodbye = soifua

please = fa'molemole

how are you = o a mai oe

happy birthday = Manuia lou Aso Fanau

1 = tasi

2 = lua

3 = tolu

4 = fa

5 = lima

6 = ono

7 = fitu

8 = valu

9 = iva

10 = sefulu

Savalivali means go for a walk

Tautalatala means too much talk

Alofa ia te oe means I love you

Take it easy, faifai lemu

Instructional Writing

This week in Room 2 we have been looking at writing instructions.  We imagined aliens coming and we had to tell them step by step how to make smoothies.  On Monday we got all the ingredients and had a go at making them - yummy result!

Pour in yoghurt

   

Put Bananas in the blender

 

Add the milk

 

               Taste and enjoy!

Letter of the Week - Qq

What better way to cement our letter of the week than with baking and eating!  This week we looked at the letter Qq, so on Friday afternoon we made 'Question Biscuits'.  We cheated somewhat by using bought biscuits but we had heaps of fun making the icing and decorating them with M&M's shaped into a 'Question Mark'.  The children worked really well as a team mixing water and icing sugar to get a thick consistency and enough to ice 2 biscuits each.

Mixing it carefully

                                                                 

Waiting so patiently.....

Laying the M&M's just right 

Taste Test!

YUM!

Assembly Term 2 Week 5

Yay!  We did it!  

I was so immensely proud of everyone during assembly this week.  They were all so excited about it during practice but when it came to a run through with our senior buddy class the nerves started to show!  Come Friday they were well versed in what they had to say and how it was going to go.  It certainly isn't easy to get up in front of the whole school and teachers but they all did a fantastic job.  Thanks to all the parents that were able to come along and support us - it meant a lot for the kids to see your friendly faces in the audience.  

Pattern Making

This week in Mathematics we have been looking at patterns. Today we created our own Autumn patterns with leaves collected from around our school.  After gathering many different sizes, shapes and coloured leaves we thought about how many different pattern possibilities there are. Here are some photos of our journey.....

Collecting our leaves from around the playground

Small and yellow....

Long and spiky

Selection process

What leaves would make a good pattern?

"My leaf goes like this big, little, little, little, little, big


Come and take a look at all of them in the class!

"Mine is purple, green, purple, green"