Celebrating reading by doing group plays

This week Room 2 are doing journal plays. Lots of fun, expressive voices and acting in a different role.

Shaleena and Chontelle's Paired Writing

shaleena and Chontelles by silverstream2

Skyla and Aliyah's Paired Writing

Skyla and Aliyah by silverstream2

the plane ride to Brazil

A thirteen year old girl called Ruby was on a plane to Brazil and crashed on a tropical island.So she goes to find a spot to set up camp for the night.After a while she looks at her watch and it was twelve o,clock then she looks behind her into the darkness of the cave and saw..... gloomy red eyes staring at her face. She was then pulled into the darkness of the cave.Seconds later there was a ear splitting scream and she was gone.

By Angus, Trent and Joel.

The Holidays

I hope everybody has had a relaxing holiday. It has been great to see some nice weather as well. What has been the highlight of your holidays?
I have really enjoyed having some sleep ins and reading lots of books, but the highlight was being able to go to the semi final between the All Blacks and the Wallabies on Sunday night at Eden Park.

Let's hope the All Blacks have another great win this Sunday night!

Skyla's Glog

Aliyah's Mummy Presentation

Mummies

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Beckham and Skyla's Tagxedo

Trent's Ancient Eygptian Powerpoint

Sports and games

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Finn's Pyramid Presentation

Pyramids1

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Katelyn and Emma's Glog

Aardhyn's Mr Blob animation

Thank you to our pent-a-blogging friends for your very constructive comments and feedback this week. We are all enjoying your suggestions and are looking forward to putting this feedback into our work!

Aardhyn would love some feedback on his Mr Blob animation. You can find it by clicking on his name label. This was his first attempt at an animation and Aardhyn would love to know what you think.

Thanks

Daily Report for Tuesday 13th September

Today Miss Wong visited us from Waiwera South School. She is a new teacher and wanted to see what we do at Silverstream School.

This is a photo of a group finding the key words in a text about Ancient Egypt. Key words are like keys - they unlock the meaning in a sentence. When we are working in groups in Room 2 we sit shoulder to shoulder, knee to knee so we can work together.

After play we had Kelly Sports with AJ and Sean. We were learning rugby skills. We went to three different activities and focussed on three different skills needed for rugby. They were tagging/ripping, dodging/sidestepping (agility) and passing and catching.


We are enjoying reading the comments on the blog from all our pent-a-blogging friends.

That was the daily report for Tuesday. The best thing about today was Kelly Sports.

Daily Report for Monday 12th September

We started the day talking about the RWC. We were excited about looking at the comments that were written by our pent-a-blogging friends.

This picture was taken at Discovery Time. We are learning to show perseverance. The picture is a God's eye. They were hard because it took a while to work out how to make them.

At reading time today, we learnt a new game on the iPad called Bluster. You have to work against a partner to clear your list of words.

Today was exciting and fun.

Pent-a-Blogging

This week we have started an exciting learning challenge called Pent-a-Blogging, with 4 other classes from Otago and Southland. Each week one class is the focus class. The other classes in the group read the focus class's blog or wiki and give them feedback about their work. The next week the focus class changes. Check out the other blogs and wikis on our pent-a-blog page.
As new 'bloggers' this is a really great chance for Room 2 to get some feedback about our blog and we're sure that the other classes will have some great ideas on how we can improve our blog.

Miss Johnston's research assistants - please remember to keep checking in and giving feedback on the writing blog, the link is on the right.

End of Week 3 - A Very Short Week!

Thank you to all of the parents (and children!) who have been commenting on our blog, in particular the children's writing about the Relax and Read chair. We all get very excited to see there are new comments!

Thank you also to those who have returned both the child and parent consent forms for my research. It would be great to have a few more, so if you haven't already, please consider whether you might be able to do so. Let me know if you need a replacement form!

I have added some typing practise websites to our wiki that children might like to have a go at at home.

SNOW!!

I hope you are all enjoying playing in the snow, although it doesn't seem to be quite so fun building a snow man and having snow fights when it is still snowing and the wind is blowing a gale!

Here are some photos from around my house

Can you see what I have taken a photo of? Have a guess...

I thought this looked like a hedgehog!


How are you spending the day?
It might be a good chance to earn some points on Study Ladder or practise your basic facts on our challenge games

We have been enjoying playing Scrabble at home over the weekend. You might have a set that you can play with your family at home today!

The Relax and Read Chair

Finally bought for $75.00 and hoping for a wonderful place to stay, I soon realise that I am being transported to the airport for something unexpected. I was being loaded into the cockpit as the pilot's chair. I was soon fitted with heaps of glittering buttons and switches, along with cup holders that I thought were very annoying and strange. Was I going to spend the rest of my life stuck here? Well, how could I know!
Five years later I was suddenly lifted out of my place and they stripped off my buttons. I was loaded into the boot of a car to be taken to some kind of second-hand shop. I had no idea who or what was going to buy me or would I be thrown out?
Suddenly a kind lady called Miss Johnston happily bought me for a great price. The next day I was taken to a warm classroom where I was moved into a perfect spot and I was positive that this was the best place to spend the rest of my life.

Angus

The Arrival of the Relax and Read Chair

Today a new chair arrived in our class. It's almost like magic. Whenever you are in the relax and read chair, you just want to relax and read!

Room 2 wrote stories about the history of the relax and read chair. Here they go...

Relax and Read Chair

Over in Australia there lived a girl named Molly. She was 5 years old. Molly owned a blue and yellow chair. She read books on it, played with her dolls, drew pictures on a piece of paper and loads more. Years passed and Molly was sixteen. She decided to donate the chair to a second hand shop in Dunedin. Molly did that and went home. The chair arrived at the second hand shop. Miss Johnston bought the chair. That’s how the relax and read chair came overseas to room2.


By Emma