The day the Ranfurly Shield came to school!

We were very lucky to have Mr Berry bring the Ranfurly Shield along to school to show us all.  

We heard about some of the history of the shield and Mr Berry answered some of the questions we had.

(The Ranfurly Shield, colloquially known as the Log o' Wood, is a trophy in New Zealand's domestic rugby union competition. First played for in 1904, the Shield is based on a challenge system, rather than a league or knockout competition as with most football trophies.)

Here we all are, looking as proud as punch, with the shield!  

Special thanks to Mr Berry!

Authors at work!

We have started the term with a BANG! and the children are showcasing some of their fantastic writing skills.  We will spend some time next week publishing some work to share with you here.  

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Welcome to Room 2, 2019

We are all very excited about the year ahead and all of the amazing things we are going to achieve!

We would love for you to follow our classroom blog, keeping up to date with our learning.  We also love reading comments - so don't be shy!  

Athletics

The emerald green grass sprouted from the mossy ground.  
Pearl white daisies hid among the short stubby grass.
Long striped white lines ran to the end of the field.

“3, 2, 1, go!” the judge shouted.  
I ran as fast as my legs could carry me.  
The sky was sapphire blue and sparkled like the sea.  
Fluffy candy floss clouds flouted fantastically through
the crisp breeze.

Written by Winnie

ACTIVATOR

For a very long time activator has been coming to our school and teaching us heaps of different useful skills like how to dodge a basketball, how to make great shots in netball and this term were even going to have  game of NETBALL!!!.

Every second Friday we all look forward to Youth Town coming and teaching us new things. Activator is the highlight of my week and I cant wait till next time!

We have been taught a range of skillful clever games and through these we have learnt different skills like defending others, how to pivot and a whole bunch of alternative ways to pass a ball amongst team players, this term has been is chest passes.  

I cannot wait to see what next term brings.

Written by Bella
  

Cooperative learning during Keeping Ourselves Safe lessons.


We have been learning about Keeping Ourselves Safe in mixed year level groupings and the children have shown some fantastic cooperative learning skills. 

Group work was a huge part of this unit and we were very proud of how well the children coped with the change of classrooms and peer groups.

The children shared their own ideas and were very respectful of others ideas and opinions, they also learnt more about negotiating and listening to reach a shared understanding. 

Keep an eye on the blog for some reflections from the children on this unit.  

The power of google docs.

This term, through our Science Fair unit, we have been learning about google docs and how to use them.

The children all know how to open a doc and give it a title.  They also know how to share others into the doc.  As we work through the unit we are adding information to the shared group document, this will later become the information we present on our science fair boards.  

Today we looked at 'commenting' and I added comments to each document and the children were able to look at my questions and answer them or change their document accordingly.  This is wonderful new learning and they really enjoyed the instant feedback that was possible without actually waiting for a conversation.

  

The group work is also coming along really nicely with groups well and truly gelled now.