Room 2 Has A New Blog

Good evening,

Room 2 has a new blog for 2011. room2ola2011.blogspot.com

This site will stay 'live'...pretty much from now on...

See you at school on Tuesday,

Mr Grant

Jump Jam Thursday

Good afternoon,

This morning instead of our fitness station rotations, we went into the Hall for some Jump Jam practice, primarily for Rooms 1, 2 and 3's Jump Jam Teams.



Just got some polishing to do there before the big evening next week.

As a reminder...


This afternoon R2 R.E. began discussing why Mary was chosen by God...


...and we very briefly talked about the Commonwealth, and what it was.


We will be using this link here next week to further our understanding.

I hope you enjoyed seeing your children's art work in the hall this afternoon. The art work will still be on display in the morning, but will be taken down so's R2 can host assembly tomorrow afternoon.

CU there,

Mr Grant

Oh yes, I've been given the hard word to give the children the hard word about looking after their own stuff and keeping the room tidy. So we may be leaving the room a little later each day while we get the room in a fit state for the following day.

Wednesday Movie Day

Good afternoon,

Thanks to Bronwyn (again) and Graham for helping out during Inquiry this afternoon. It was much appreciated.

Earlier in the day, we did some 200 meter training...


...and White Group shared today's text with us - The King's Parade. Well, most of it, anyway.


After lunch we went back to church to practice genuflecting in a most appropriate setting.


And that was our day.

Tomorrow we have got a couple of post tests. First up, a Time post test for R2 Maths (practice at home using this here, and add/subtract hours and quarter hours), and a R.E./Church post test for R2 R.E. (the 6 groups the children belong to, Parish and Fathers' names). Oh yes, and finishing up that Inquiry portfolio sheet.

All fun and games!

Bye for now,

Mr Grant

Mournday Monday

Well, mourning only in as far as tomorrow's Willowbank trip has been postponed to Friday. Indeed, I should have handed out a slip of paper this afternoon, but, seeing as it was a piece of paper, I kinda forgot!

So...

Dear Parents,

We made the call today to postpone due to the dubious forecast and the wet ground.

Friday will be the same as Tuesday. The children will wear their sports gear. We are thinking about gumboots but will make that call later in the week. The y are also to bring a named packed lunch.

Regards,

J Team Teachers

Oh, and by the way, I mentioned that the cost for those who want to pay their own way was $12. Turns out, it's $12.50.

As for today, we had us some visitors for Topic this afternoon. Room 11 popped over to watch this jungle movie with us, and then, along with Room 2 we discussed some of the things we learned.








Earlier in the day, Blue Reading Group shared today's text...


Very cool.

Right, now to prepare for tomorrow's unexpected reading lesson!

Mr Grant

Digital Shape Activities

Good morning,

Here are the activities that I would like you to have a crack at this morning...

• Buzzing with Shapes


• Rat Shapes


• Virtual Geoboards


• Shape Labs


• Find a shape


• Shape matchup


• Shape Overlays - the user name is assum34 and the password is ption61

And there we go.

Mr Grant

Wednesday

Good afternoon,

Another busy day gone, another one coming tomorrow, it's no wonder that the children are becoming ke ti nge nge.

We did a bit of writing...


...and the other usual stuff, before R.E., where the children were learning to relate the concept of God being three persons and yet one God to the shamrock and the three legged milking stool by, well, pulling together shamrocks and milking stools using the digital R.E. resource that we base our teaching on...







...before learning this poem.


After R.E. we tried our first rotation of the inquiry stations.

1. Teacher


2. Word Find


3. Battleships


4. Virtual Frigate


5. Force Nine


6. Colour in


7. Soldiers


8. Make a tank

Some of these activities were more successful than others. Hmmm...we'll try again on Friday morning.

(And it turns out the boys really like cheese - flogged some from the staff room this morning and they were very excited about it all!)

Best I try to get some work done.

Mr Grant

Mixing Monday

Good afternoon,

We had a surprisingly laid back day today. Free time reading based activities instead of reading group instruction (I was catching up on a few running records) - so there were no reading books going home from the R2 reading class today.

For R.E. this afternoon, we broached the concept of the Trinity - One God, yet three people.


So to try to illustrate that, we did a bit of a mixing experiment. Three colours into one...





...sorta. (So that's how they make Marmite!)

After completing our handwriting sample, there wasn't a whole lot of time to carry on with inquiry, so I introduced the children to the following activities that I have settled upon for them to carry on with while I work with one group at a time on a rotational basis...

1. Teacher


2. Word Find


3. Battleships


4. Virtual Frigate


5. Force Nine


6. Colour in


7. Soldiers


8. Make a tank

We'll try that later in the week (though time is fast running away on me - got some things to catch up on in regards to portfolios that are due out on Friday).

Speaking of portfolios, thank you for the many that have been returned. Ummm, well, it turns out that all but two do not have the space required to be used again, so, umm, sorry, but I'll be sending them home.

I'll just give everyone a new clear file!

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mr Grant