Shape Robots

For the past few weeks in Maths, we have been focusing on 2D shapes that form together to create new shapes. For example, we learned that four triangles can actually make a rectangle. How cool is that? We also learned about semi circles and quarter circles. Can you guess how many quarter circles come together to form a full circle? Ask us for the answer!

As we have been working so hard on our shapes, Mrs S thought it would be fun to draw robots made out of a variety of 2D shapes. We had 20 minutes to draw the best shape robot ever! We then gave our robots to a partner and they had to find all the different shapes and tell us how many of each shape we used. It was so much fun and quite tricky to do.

Come in and see our shape robots hanging up in class. Maybe we can even trick you with some of our shapes!

Science Superstars

Just a reminder that our Science Superstar presentations start next week! I have already seen and heard about some fantastic experiments and power points people have chosen to do. The enthusiasm and excitement behind this activity has been fantastic, so well done everyone. I am looking forward to seeing you all present next week.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Sam, Harry, Tane and Charlie for winning awards at last weeks assembly. What a super, tremendous, outstanding job you have all done. Room 16 is very proud of you!

WOW Writing!

This week, our class wrote procedures about how to make Fairy Bread. Below are some pictures of us making delicious, scrumptious, delightful Fairy Bread. Our focus for the week was to include interesting verbs and adverbs which many of us did. We had the best time making Fairy Bread! 

Fairy bread from carisheppener

For the next few weeks we are going to move onto Persuasive Writing, as we are now Procedure Writing pros! Our focus is still to be vocabulary and using lots of words that we can use to persuade our readers. We call these words High Modality Words. They either make us feel positive or negative about something. Below is the chart of High Modality Words we will be using, to assist you with our talk homework.  

Self Talk

When learning new concepts in class, it is extremely important to retain what is being taught, otherwise it isn't really learning at all! The best way to ensure these concepts are being moved from short term memory to long term memory is through the use of self talk.

Self talk is when students verbalise the steps or strategies needed to complete a task. They say the steps out loud after it has been modeled by the teacher. This use of self talk gives them the tools they need to be successful!

Below are some videos of some super stars in our class doing self talk.

 

 

WGPS Science Super Stars!

In an endeavour to lift the profile of Science across the school and get the students enthused about all things ‘sciency’, we have a whole school fun competition in mind. Participation and enthusiasm is our key objective here.

OVERVIEW: This competition has three stages.

Stage 1: Each student will research and present either a short science experiment or report on a science related concept, to their class. The class will assess the presentations and select their top two
‘super scientists’.

Stage 2: The selected two students will then have to present (again) to ALL the students and teachers in that particular year level ,along with an admin representative, who will then choose their year group’s #1 scientist!

Stage 3: Finally, we celebrate our top 6 scientists by getting them to present their report or experiment to the entire school, at a giant Science assembly. We will also award prizes to all students who made it through each stage of the process.

WHAT CAN THEY CHOOSE TO PRESENT? The students can choose their experiment or report from any of the four conceptual strands: Biological Science, Chemical Science, Physical Science or Earth and Space Science.

Each presentation, whether it be a report or experiment, can be a maximum of 5 minutes in length. Students can use ICT resources such as MS PowerPoint presentations (or similar) to support their presentation, in addition to posters, charts, etc.

Experiments should be simple to set up, demonstrate an outcome within the time limit, and be SAFE.
 
The internet is, of course, a great resource.
www.sciencekids.co.nz/
www.kidspot.com.au/things-to-do/collection/science-experiments
www.csiro.au/en/Education/DIY-science
easyscienceforkids.com/
www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/
https://sciencebob.com/category/experiments/
www.fizzicseducation.com.au/Free+experiments.html

Due date: All science experiments and presentations will be presented during Week 6 (Week beginning 30 May) on your child’s regular news day.

If you have any questions or concerns please come and see me.

Thank you for your support with this.
Mrs Caris Szczepanik

Mental Maths

This term, we are focusing on Mental Maths and solving a variety of sums using speed and accuracy. We have been practising counting on and counting back. This is where you lock the biggest number in your head, and either count on, or back, by the smallest number. We use a program called Quickulations that shows lots of sums and changes after a certain amount of seconds. We started at 10 seconds and now we are solving sums in less than 5 seconds!

We are improving our Mental Maths to help us with column addition and subtraction. We are currently solving sums that require carrying and borrowing. Can you solve any of the below sums?

Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing all the wonderful Mums, in Room 16, a very happy Mother's Day! Thank you for every thing you do for us. From helping us with our homework, to giving us the best hugs at night, you really are our shining light!

Procedure Writing - Tying Your Shoe Laces

Now that we are in Year Two, we thought it would be a great idea to learn how to tie our shoe laces! For our Big Write session this week, we wrote a procedure all about how to tie our shoe laces. Some of us brought in practise shoe toys and we even used our own shoes to practice, practice, practice.

After a lot of practice nearly everyone in our class can now tie their shoelaces!

We learnt that a procedure is a list of steps and materials that explains how to do something. After we learnt how to tie our shoe laces, we wrote a list of steps so that we will remember how to do it. All the steps must start with a doing word which are called verbs. We had so much fun learning how to tie our laces!

Procedure writing from carisheppener