Listening Walk

Room 2 went on a listening walk. Everyone had to listen very carefully to the sounds we could hear around us. We walked for a while and then stopped. Mrs Rai asked us to be very quiet and still. We then had to share what we could  hear with a buddy.

 

 
 

We went back to class and wrote down all the sounds that we had heard. The next day we worked with Mrs Paterson to come up interesting words to make our writing more exciting. Here are some samples of what we wrote.

I heard the leaves rustling in the wind. I heard the cars going errr! It was very loud. I heard children running fast. I heard the birds tweeting in the trees. I heard the wind going woo! The wind blew the doors open and shut.

Nerys

I could hear a quack, quack, quack sound. It was very loud.  I think it was a duck up in the sky.

Eloise

I could hear a noise. I think it was a duck. I could hear a helicopter flying in the sky. It was far away. I heard a truck going vroom! vroom! It was very loud.

Masi

I heard the wind going woo! It was a soft sound.

Josie

I heard the trees rustling.  I heard a duck quaking loudly. I heard a door banging shut. I heard a truck going vroom! I heard the wind blowing.

Surya

I heard a banging sound. It was loud and near me. I think it was a door closing. I could hear a tweeting sound. It was soft. I think it was a bird. I heard a quaking sound. It was very loud. I think it was a duck flying in the sky.

TJ

Sharing News

Congratulations to our budding future star athlete, Nerys. Nerys brought in her achievement certificates and her trophy to share. We know that she is going to shine on our school Athletics Day.

 

Paityn also brought in her Free Writing book to share what she had written over the weekend. She had written a recount of what she had done with Mum with well detailed illustrations.

 

Gymnastics

Last term we did Dancing with Kiwisports. This term we are lucky because we are going to be doing gymnastics in the our school hall with Rod. He showed us some really important moves that will help keep us safe when we do gymnastics. He showed three different shapes- L shape, we stretch our legs out together and stretch our arms up towards the ceiling, tuck shape- we have to tuck our chin down into our neck and the next on was motorbike/landing shape. We do this shape whenever we jump.

We did some stretching first to prepare our bodies and then we played a game of tiger tag. Rod had set up two circuits. He had three very important rules that we had to follow. We had to do everything properly, we couldn't skip any part of the circuit and we HAD to have FUN.

We thoroughly enjoyed our session and can't wait for the next one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Statistics- Sorting Objects into groups

This term we are doing Statistics for our Maths strand. This week we worked on how to sort objects into groups. We had lots of discussions around what and how we could do this, what other ways can we sort them into, how many groups can we make etc. We then broke into groups of three and worked together to do the sorting.