Week 4 - Term 2

Learning Celebrations

Don't forget this week on Wednesday we are having our Learning Celebrations afternoon. To make a booking follow the link https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/?z=SdgiOK and use the code k23pp 
Please remember that school finishes at 12.30pm and will need to be picked up then

On Friday last week we got to share our learning with the Year 5 tamariki from our team. It was a great practice to have before we share this week! Some of the children even left some feedback in our Goals books.

Year 2 Production - There's a Sunflower in my Supper 

Have you heard that the Year 2's are putting on a production this term? This is our first week of practice and the children are so excited!!! The show will be put on in the last week of term - Tuesday PM and Wednesday AM (still to be confirmed). 

The children were asked to pick two options that they would like to do and they have been given one of their choices. Ask your child if they're an actor, narrator, singer, dancer or band member. 

PARENT HELP - are you able to help with sewing costumes or painting stage sets? Please send me an email or pop in and see me to let me know what you could help with and the time you have available to help. 

Reading

Our Big Book we are reading this week is 'Billy McBrown'. We will be looking at rhyming words, reading the story using the punctuation and we will also have a look at similes - saying something is like or as something else. 

Well done to our first reading group that performed their play today. You all used clear, loud voices and made the story interesting by using lots of expression. Ka pai!

Last week we started reading 'The Magic Finger' by Roald Dahl. We are really enjoying the story and have been listening carefully so we can imagine a picture in our minds while being read to.

Word Work 

In Word Work we are focusing on /ar/ and /or/ then /ai/ and /ay/

We have been recording words on the board and in our books then breaking them up to find out home many sounds each word has. We've noticed that digraphs only make one sound even though there is at least 2 letters. For example shark has only 3 sounds sh/ar/k 

Writing & Inquiry 

This week we hope to do some experiments followed by writing. We will also be writing some 'I Wonder' questions we have about CHANGE to put on our Inquiry wall and investigate later in the term.

Maths 

Our whole class focus for Maths has been Measurement - Weight.  We have explored balance scales - using different amounts of weights to find out which side is heavier or lighter. Some of us were even able to make the scale balance. This week, we will be ordering items from lightest - heaviest and vice versa. 

Have a lovely week, see you on Wednesday afternoon.

Miss M :)