Week 8 - Term 2

Reading

This week we are not reading a big book, instead we are looking at a collection of Matariki stories. Matariki is the the Māori New Year and it is marked with the rising of the star cluster Matariki/Pleiades. There are many different myths about how the stars appeared in the sky. One of them being about how Tawhirimatea (the Wind God) became angry and threw his eyes into the sky. 

Word Work

For Word Work we are focusing on the long i sound - 'ie' pie, 'igh' light and i-e bike. We will be working more with alkonin sound boxes to find out how many sounds words have. 

Inquiry

A1 and A2 asked the children what they would like to investigate further - coke and mentos explosion was a popular choice. We wondered what would happen if we changed coke to lemonade and mint mentos to fruit mentos. It definitely didn't explode like coke and mint mentos. 

Next was slime - we are trying different types of glue to see which makes the best slime! Oobleck was another top choice that we would like to look into further. 

Writing

Our writing this week will be around our inquiry experiences and Matariki. We have been learning to using sequencing words (first, next, then, last) and include more WOW words in our writing. Keep your eye out on our blog as some children may publish their writing onto this page! 

Production Update!!! 

As you know, the Year 2 children are busy practising for our upcoming production 'There's a Sunflower In My Supper'. We had initially planned to perform the show in the last week of this term but to allow the children to reach their full potential we have changed the dates. The new dates for the shows will be Week 3, Term 3 - Wednesday 9th August at 1.45pm and Thursday 10th August at 9.45am.  

We are also on the hunt for any type of bugs/mini beasts costumes. If you have one that we could borrow please send it to school (clearly named so it comes back to the right owner). Please note that the costume may not be worn by your child as all children have a different role in the show. 

Have a fabulous week!

Miss M :)

Week 7 - Term 2

Reading

Our big book this week is called 'Brave Mouse'. We are focusing on making connections to our prior experiences - times we had to be brave and how we felt before, after and during.

We continue to read 'George's Marvelous Medicine'. The children are absolutely loving this story. 

Word Work

This week we are focusing on 'aw' as in hawk and the long e sound - 'ea' (leaves) 'ee' (bee) and e-e (Pete) (bossy e)

Writing

For writing this week we are writing about our fidget spinner design - describing it's appearance and speed. We will then continue to integrate our writing through our inquiry. Most of A2 have a big focus on remembering to use full stops and capital letters! Sometimes it can be tricky to know where the full stops actually goes so we need to read it back to ourselves and notice when we take a breath. 

Maths

For maths we continue to work on skip counting, both forwards and backwards in 5's and 10's and 2's and our doubles and halves to 20. We have really enjoyed the skip counting Youtube clips. 

Production Practice 
Our production practices continues 3 times a week. We have been working so hard to learn our lines, the songs or to play an instrument.


Reminders:
- No toys are to be brought to school. If your child would like to bring a toy to share for news in needs to be given to the teacher and kept in a safe place until home time
-  Shoes need to be work to school daily
- Library day is on Wednesday