Cornwall Park

See if you can go to Cornwall Park and see the newly born lambs. They are making lots of noise 'baa baa' to tell their Mum's where they are.

As well as lambs, there are calves too.

If you walk through Twin Oak Drive all the daffodils are in flower too.

I really enjoyed visiting the park today!

Mrs Hopkins, Room 7

Verb Poems

This week in Year 2 we chose something we did in the holidays and wrote a 'Verb Poem' about it. It was quite tricky to keep to the pattern but here are some examples. Pop into the classes if you would like to see some more!

My Best Holiday My Holiday

Swimming, swimming. Scootering, scootering.

Diving in the pool. Scootering down the steep dry footpath.

Splashing at the people. Zooming to Waihi Beach.

Holding my breath. Scootering down the secret pathway.

Super swimming! Family fun!

By Priya- Room 10 By Charlotte- Room 9

My Holiday My Holiday

Eating, eating. Sleeping, sleeping.

Munching salty chips. Sleeping on the bouncy bed.

Chewing healthy weetbix. Lazing on the comfy bed.

Swallowing soft eggs. Dancing to groovy music.

Hungry holidays. Serena's stupendous sleepover.

By Troy- Room 8 By Holly- Room 8

My Holiday My Holiday

Sailing, sailing. Going, going.

Eating wonderful ice-blocks. Driving to Emily's house.

Sailing gentle seas. Playing on the shiny computer.

Skimming beautiful shells. Running around in the green garden.

Relaxing break. Fun days.

By Jack- Room 11 By Stephanie- Room 18

Sausage Sizzles are back for Term 3

Sausage Sizzles are back!

The first one for Term 3 will be:

Monday 15th August (Week 3) and they will then take place every second week.

Firewise!

Today the Year 1 & 2 children met Firefighter Matt. He came to talk to us about being Fire Safety and we all showed him how Firewise we are! We saw how quickly a fire can start and talked about what to do if a fire ever happened. We practiced 'Get down! Get low! Get out fast!', we called out 'Fire! Fire! Fire!' loudly and clearly and met at 'Our safe meeting place.'

Well done Year 1 and 2- you are a Firewise crew!!

TERM 3- 2011 (Year 2)

What is happening for this term in YEAR 2??

Our school wide concept is- 'Express Yourself'

We will be exploring how:

• The Arts be used to express and communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas.

Big Question:

• How can we express ourselves?

The Year 2 children will be participating in an 'Art Rotation' as part of this unit. They will have two sessions with each teacher on the following: Miss George: Upbeat Music Programme, Miss McClue: Dance, Miss Fisher: Flax Weaving, Mrs Hardie-Boys: Musical instruments, Mrs Paul: Drama and we are very lucky to also have the talent of Jeanette Franklyn who will be taking each class for two sessions about instruments and the orchestra and musical notation. Thank you so much Mrs Franklyn!!

Our Writing Focus will be- Personal Recounts/ Paragraph Plans/ Cameo Writing/ Recrafting/ Publishing and a particular focus on Transactional Writing: Instructions

Our mathematics programme will be- Number: addition and subtraction, number knowledge, basic facts, place value, sequential patterning (Algebra), Money, Fractions, Measurement- length and area.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

• For any special events please refer to the right hand column of our Blog under the heading 'Special Events'

If you have any questions or there is anything else you would like to know about the class programme for this term please don't hesitate to ask your classroom teacher :-)