Kelly Sports Promo day

On Thursday the team from Kelly Sports came to school to promote their sports club. We played some fun games and had a good time.
Benjamin helped the team demonstrate some of the activities...

Then we all had a go...

Proud of our Prints

We are all really proud of our PVA Farm Animal prints...

First we drew our farm animals with pencil then squeezed PVA around all the lines. When it was dry we rolled ink onto the animal, put a clean sheet of paper onto and rolled with a clean roller. We got a lovely surprise when we peeled our paper off!

Magnificent readers

More magnificent readers reach their milestones...well done everybody, and keep on reading.

Answering the BIG question...

Throughout this term we have been learning about farms and farm animals - especially cows and dairy farms - to answer our big question:

Cows are too smelly! Do we really need them?

We've come up with answers, using a variety of ways to share our thoughts...
A voicethread...

Our written language...
Finn: We need cows because they give milk to us. Yes we need the cow and the milk can be cheese. No and Yes some people think we need cows because they give us milk. If we did have no cows there would be no milk because there's no cows. Cows give us ice cream and cows have beef inside. If there was no cows there will be no milk and no more cheese and no more ice cream. No more milk in the whole world!
Benjamin: We do need cows because if we didn't have cows we would die. All the other things that have milk we wouldn't have - a lot of things. I like ice cream so we do need cows. Lots of other people like ice cream as well.
Brooklyn: We get lots of stuff from cows. We need cows because if there was no cows there would be no milk and no cow meat. From the milk it can be turned into ice cream, yoghurt and chocolate. We get macaroni cheese from milk. Some people do not like cow milk so they drink goat milk or sheep milk. At the factory it sometimes gets flavoured. It can be chocolate milk or banana milk or strawberry milk.
Reihana: We need cows because they give us milk and we drink the milk and we like milk. We need them, we have to have them to bring us milk. We like milk!
Juliana: Yes we do need cows because they give us ice cream.
Hannah: We don't need them because they are too smelly.
Avan: We need cows because they give us milk and they give us meat. We make ice cream from milk.
Ashleigh: Ice cream and milk and yoghurt are things I like so yes we need cows.
Tessa: Yes we need cows because they give us milk. They give us ice cream. They give us cheese. I like cheese. If we didn't have cows we wouldn't have milk. I would be sad. I had macaroni cheese last night and if cows were dead we wouldn't have macaroni cheese.
Ti'a: Yes we need cows because they give us ice cream.
Angela: Do we need cows? Yes, because cows have meat and ice cream and yoghurt, cheese and butter. But cows are very smelly, but we need cows because cows have meat or ice cream or yoghurt.
Kody: We do need cows because they give us milk. We use milk for ice cream.
Samuel: No we don't need cows because I use rice milk.
Emil: No because they are stinky.
Harrison: We need cows because they make milk. From milk we get butter.
J: Yes we do need cows because they give us milk.
Tatenda: Yes we need cows because they give us milk, ice cream, butter and cheese.
Eric: We go to the farm and see cows.
Jamie: Yes we need cows because they give us milk.
KidPix... (coming soon)
Inspiration... (coming soon)

125!!

Another super reader reaches 125 nights!

Congratulations Tatenda, and keep up the great work.

Clever Kids

Congratulations to these 3 clever kids for getting certificates at this afternoon's Junior Assembly... for working well at addition and subtraction problems using 5's, for completing quality homework, and for writing l-o-n-g stories by himself. Keep up the great work!

Where does our food come from?

After talking about which foods come from which animals, we used Inspiration to organise our ideas. We had to think about the farm animals that we get food from, and what the food is that we get from them. We learned to link the animal to the food we get from them.
Here are a couple of our Inspiration charts...

Wonderful Workers

Today we are very proud of Ti'a for being today's Music star, and very proud of Jamie for reaching 100 nights of home reading. Keep up the great work!

Monday's Stars

Congratulations to Ashleigh for great progress with handwriting, to Jamie for increasing independence and to Tessa for achieving 125 nights of home reading.
Mrs Hawkins is so proud of you all!

Such Improvements

Our handwriting is improving (getting better) so-o-o-o much that Mrs Hawkins struggled to find 1 'most improved writer' today, so here they all are...

New Vocab

Recently we've been learning, practicing and using some new Maori vocabulary - for farm animals. Which ones can you remember?............

Uwha Heihei, Kuri, Kawhe, Hipi, Tame Heihei,
Reme, Kau, Poaka

Cow is... Pig is...
Calf is... Dog is...
Sheep is... Lamb is...
Rooster is... Hen is...

How many did you remember?

125 Nights

Both Juliana and Benjamin have reached 125 nights of home reading - it's no wonder you are such good readers with all that practise!

What a Week

It's been another great week in Room 2, especially for these children...

Well done Samuel for being Miss James' Music star, Matthew and Hannah for receiving certificates at Junior Assembly, and Avan for reaching 100 nights of home reading!
Well done to all of you!

Making Milk

Yesterday we learned about what happens to milk once it leaves the cow!
We found some very interesting information on the Anchor Milk website which explained what happens to the milk once the farmer has milked his cows.
Relational thinkers can sequence or order information, so to make us more relational we looked at the things that happened to the milk and put them in order, from when the cows eat the grass right through to when we drink the milk at home! First we mixed up large pictures and put them in the right order, then we sorted our own pictures into sequence. We used arrows and numbers to help show the order.

Many of us could do this without any help, so are relational thinkers already...some of us found it quite tricky or needed some help so are on the way to becoming relational thinkers.
Here are our 'Making Milk' charts...

Some more Stars!

Juliana has been working hard at developing the fluency and expression of her reading, Emil has made fantastic progress with the size and neatness of his handwriting, and Kody is working quickly & confidently when adding and subtracting. Well done to all you super learners!

First in the Reading Race!

Well done Brooklyn and Samuel on reaching 125 nights...you are doing so well!

We are proud of you both!

Today we celebrated success for Eric - achieving his first home reading certificate for 25 nights, and Matthew - for being Miss James' singing star in Music. Well done and keep up the great work.