Chinese New Year

Today,  our Mandarin teacher has been teaching us about Chinese New Year. Last week, we listened to the story of Chinese New Year and this week, we have learned how the festival is celebrated.

Ladybirds in the garden - maths problem solving

Today we had great fun being problem solvers. We began by testing and trying out our thoughts and ideas. We talked to our friends about what the problem was and different ways that we thought we could solve it.

Can you finish solving the problem at home?

Ladybirds in the garden

Recycling

Today we have been thinking about our recycling. We now have a recycling team in Room 2. They are going to be in charge of recycling our food scraps into compost.

Maths games

Today some of us played a maths game. It was called "Hidden Treasure". To play the game, someone hides a treasure under a numbered cup (we used stickers - but it could be anything!) - we used numbers 5 - 10, but you could use any numbers that you like Then asks a question to help the other players guess which cup the treasure is hidden under.  You could play this at home with paper cups or even old yoghurt pots.

Handwriting

This term Room 2 have been working extremely hard to make their handwriting as neat and tidy as possible.

Here we are before school has even begun practising our letters. Way to go Room 2!

Te Papa Trip

We had a great day at Te Papa last week. We explored Bush City, completing a scavenger hunt as we went. We had a tour through the Bug Lab - finding out each 'bug's special talent". We finally had fun looking around the Mountains to sea exhibit.

We were all very tired at the end of the day! A huge 'Thank you" to all of the parents and Grandparents that came along to help us.

Scavenger hunt in Bush City

The beautiful and clever orchid mantis.

Learning from a video how the orchid mantis attracts her prey.

Exploring! 

Dragonfly's flight.

The Jewel Wasp and its venomous talent! 

The Japanese Bee hive - Can you remember how the bees protected their hive?

The Bombardier beetle slide! 

Maths "It's ok, we will wait for you"

This week, we have been practising using our 'wait time' talk tool in maths. We have been looking at this picture and asking questions about it.

Whilst we have worked on figuring out the answers, we have been using our "wait time"


"It's okay to take your time"

"Think about your answers before you say them"

"We will wait for you"


We had so many questions to ask about the bee picture...

What shape are the honeycombs?

How many honeycombs are there?

How many empty honeycombs are there?

Why/how do the honeycombs fit together?


We enjoyed working together to try and figure out some of the answers.