We love ICT

                                                     

We love using ICT to help us with our learning. We used Kidpix to create a picture about the Oaklands CARE values.

Discovery stars!

Each week at Discovery one student at each activity is chosen for their excellent key competency skills e.g. relating to others, self managing. Here are the Room 19 children who have been chosen so far this year. 

Gordon   Meg 

Kaira  and Ryder 

Hello and Goodbye

Today we welcomed a new girl to our class - Ataahua Jacobs-Tupuhi. We are very happy to have Ataahua in Room 19. Sadly on Friday we farewell Gordon Munro who is moving to New Brighton. We will miss his bright cheerful presence and his helpfulness but we hope that he will be very happy at his new school.

Reading links

If you would like to practise your reading skills in a fun way here are some interesting sites.


http://www.learningtoday.com/corporate/reading-games.asp
http://pbskids.org/games/literacy.htmlhttp://pbskids.org/games/literacy.html
http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/sightwords/
http://www.primarygames.com/theabcgame

Week 1

Well we have had a great week working on our learning plan. We have talked about CARE,Waitangi Day, Keto the kea, designing a portrait, ensuring our classroom is  a happy place where we can all concentrate on our learning.

The Room 19 students have enjoyed getting to know each other and working in groups with students who may not have been in the same class as us last year.

We are  a really happy, friendly, co-operative group of children and our teacher thinks we are wonderful!

Portraits

As part of our learning plan we are looking at how to design portraits. We have studied Picasso's portraits. Here is the link.

http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2012/09/16/easy-picasso-faces-art-project/

You can make your own Picasso faces online with http://www.picassohead.com/

 

KETO THE KEA

We are enjoying learning about our class mascot, Keto the kea.  We have talked about how keas are smart, good thinkers, persistent and clever. We watched a great video clip about how keas could open a bin to get some food and also get some butter out of a little container. Here is the link about the smartest kea -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxoCuRuHlt8

Welcome!

Welcome to all Room 19 students and families for 2013. I trust that you have enjoyed a wonderful holiday season. It will be great to hear all about the children's experiences. 
On Monday 4th February there will a name tag for each child on a coat hook in the porch and a named label on a desk. Lunch - boxes can be placed on the coloured paper place mat on the shelves in the porch. Fruit break food can be left in the lunchbox. 
We currently have 23 wonderful Year 2 students on the Room 19 roll. 
Our team this year is called Kakano - a Maori word for seed. 

                            

The team newsletter  includes my cellphone and email contact details so that you are able to contact me if you need to.