We are learning how to write a quality information report. We know that reports have an introduction. a body of paragraphs and a concluding statement. We know that reports gives the reader factual information about a topic. In Room 2, we are writing information reports on an animal. "From my research, I found out that an octopus has 3 hearts" - Kehu.

How many rectangles can you see in this picture?  Look carefully and count all the small rectangles. Can you see the large rectangles? Count them as well.   In Room 2, we are learning about 2D, 3D shapes, transformation of shapes and symmetry of shapes.  

Gezhane's bookwork is clearly set out with the date, a heading and beautifully written in blue pen and underlined in red pen.  Fantastic work.

Robin has written a reflection is his Learning Journal and showed what he has learned about shapes in geometry. Great work.

Welcome back...Term 4 is going to be a blast in Room 2.  Our topics for this term are: Information Reports,  Geometry, Inquiry topic is Beyond Aotearoa, PE - cricket skills.

  

We are determined to follow the OCRs (Our Classroom Rules more deliberately.  They are...

• HELPING - work cooperatively with others.
• QUIET - Put our hand up instead of calling out.
• PEACEFUL - Work out problems with kind words.
• CLEAN -  Put things away after use.
• RESPECTFUL - Take care of property.
• LEARNING - Get smarter at learning. 

We are learning about how cool geometry is.  Our brainstorm is filled with words we will use to help us understand this topic more.  We have folded up square paper to make rectangles and triangles. 

Term 3 learning in Room 2

Here are some of the wonderful learning in Room 2.

Sharing ideas in topic on the mat as a whole class enables us to stop and listen while others are speaking.

Making sure we are actively listening to others is important because we can learn from each other new ideas and also understand what other people are thinking.


                                                       Making learning a priority is important to us because it would be a

 waste of time for our teacher, our parents and ourselves.

Making sure we have all our learning tools is important so that we do not waste our learning time. We are getting better at managing ourselves so that we are ready to learn when the first bell goes in the morning.

Dr Tom visits Avalon on Wednesday 24th September

 Dr Tom Mulholland visited Avalon today to speak to us about his life and how he is helping people to live a more healthy lifestyle.  He drove into school in his flash ambulance and set the siren off which was so loud.  Dr Tom answered questions about his medical career, his hobbies and sports he loves to do.  He is an ex-pupil of Taita Intermediate (1973-1974) who later attended Taita College and Upper Hutt College.  He continued his education at Victoria University then Canterbury and Otago Universities.  Wow...he's amazing.  Thank you Dr Tom for telling us that "we are as good as anyone else". 

Gezhane with Dr Tom who had some effective messages for all of us.  One of them is simply "BE NICE TO OTHERS"

 

Isabella, Kartya, Christina, Crichton, Trace, Dan pose next to Dr Tom's cool ambulance. 

Getting down to learning in Room 2

The group is working hard to improve their literacy skills.

Work is important to us in Room 2.  We have access to laptops to assist us with our work.
We are trying to make our classroom a positive learning environment by following instructions, focussing on achieving our goals and helping others who need our support.

Keeping busy ensures we are learning.

 Ryan and Mika 

using laptops to practise their math skills.

"My favourite is going on math websites to play math games to help us understand decimals, fractions and percentages." - Te Manu.

Science is so cool in Room 2

 Aim: The aim of the experiment is to find out what happens to a jaffa lolly when put into a glass of water?

Purpose: To work through and make sense of the science investigation process.

Hypothesis: We predict that the jaffa will melt in the hot water and also in the cold water. 

Christina, Isabella, Sam and Zahra are keen to see what happens to the jaffa.

Result:
The jaffa in the hot water changed a lot faster than the jaffa in the cold water.  The colour was the first thing that was affected, there were swirls of red rising up to the top of the water. Tluang described the jaffa as "lava rock".  We saw the white part of the jaffa begin to crack after about 10 minutes.  There were flakes of this layer peeling off and floating to the top of the water level.  Eventually the chocolate centre of the jaffa was exposed. This took about 15 minutes.

We had to be patient when observing the experiment.  We had to watch carefully to see what was happenting to the jaffa.

We discussed terms such as melting, dissolving, peeling, mixing, reacting, changing, process as we observed what happened to the jaffa.

Next Steps:  Explain the reason why the jaffa reacted the way it did in the hot and cold water using scientific language.  Great work Room 2.