Welcome to room 2 
2018

Kia ora, welcome to Room 2's class page. This page is where we will be sharing weekly learning, exciting events and other awesome things that have happened in our class. Our page will be updated weekly with newsletters and home learning. 
We are looking forward to another fun filled and productive year in Room 2. 

Home learning week 5:

Room 2, The pest detectives:

This week we had Chris from the Waikato regional council come in to teach us about trapping pests. As part of our gully inquiry we have looked into what kind of pests we have in our gully and what damage these pests can do to our environment. We started off by making trackers and looking at pests foot prints. Now we know what pests are in our gully, the next thing we need to do is trap them.

home learning Week 4:

zero waste week:

This week we had Ali in from 'Zero Waste'. Room 2 was learning all about recycling. We learnt about how to recycle, what we can recycle and what happens to our recycling in New Zealand. 

Armistice Day at the war memorial hall:

The seniors at Waihi Central School were lucky enough to be invited up to the war memorial hall to visit the Armistice Day exhibition this Friday. We got to learn about different people in Waihi that served in WW1 and heard some amazing stories. 

home learning week 3:

A possum in the classroom!!!

This week we were very lucky to have Poppy the Possum come and visit our classroom. Finton and his Mum have been raising Poppy since she was a tiny possum. 

Grandparent's day:

This week we had our 'Duffy Grandparent's Day' celebration assembly. We invited our Grandparent's to come into class, look at our work and read with us. After that, we had a special morning tea and assembly for our Grandparent's. 

home learning Week 2:

Welcome back to term 4

We cannot believe it is term 4 already! Here is our class newsletter for this term:

Room 2 gymnastics

This term we are learning gymnastics skills. We have started by practicing balancing with partners, this proved to be quite difficult, but Room 2 mastered the balancing skills with out partners. 

Week 1 & 2 Inquiry

For the first two weeks of term 3 Room 2 & 3 had options inquiry afternoons. Students got to choose from music, woodwork, art and cooking. We cooked cupcakes and donuts for all the junior students and we even made our own pizza bases and pizza to share with the seniors. All of our students were so creative and had a fantastic couple of weeks.

Home learning week 2

Welcome Back to Term 3:

End of term 2 shared lunch

What a fantastic term! Room 2 had a shared lunch to celebrate out last week of term 2. We all had a great time and shared out highlights of the term. We are all excited to get back to school in term 3. 

home learning week 6:

World environment day-beat plastic pollution:

This Tuesday 5th June Waihi Central School celebrated World Environment Day. Our class activities for World Environment Day and learnt how we can ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’.
​We pledges about how they are going to beat plastic pollution by doing little things every day.
Such as:
-Always reusable containers.
-Stop using plastic straws-get a reusable one instead.
-Recycle all plastic.
-Always use reusable bags.
-Stop using plastic bags.
There are little things we can all do everyday that can help beat out huge plastic problem. Remember if you can’t reuse it refuse it!!

home learning week 5:

Living landscapes:

This week Room 2 started out inquiry into 'Living Landscapes'. We discussed what we know about the land and area around us and what places are important to us. We have started a big map of Waihi and all the different places as part of our Puna Mātaurana (Pool of Knowledge). 

home learning week 4

Term 2 Problem solving:

We have really stepped up our mathematical thinking in Room 2 and we are now becoming very confident problem solvers. 
Our maths problems have made us start to use multiplicitive thinking and challenge our knowledge of place value.  

Home learning week 3:

happy mothers day!!!

In preparation for Mothers Day this Sunday Room 2 worked extremely hard on some amazing letters and hats for our wonderful Mum's. On Friday Waihi Central had a special 'High Tea' where our Mums wore their hats and came to our special Mothers Day assembly. We also had some fabulous Mum's come into class and read and work with us for the morning. 

home learning week 2:

Room 2's Rongoā garden

Our inquiry during week 1 was looking at what a Rongoā Garden is and what kind of plants we want to plant in our RongOā Garden. 
Room 2 found out that a Rongoā Garden is a garden made of plants with healing properties. We found out that lots of plants, especially herbs, are very safe to eat and have healing properties that have been used in traditional Māori medicine.
After all of our research we chose some plants we thought would work in our class garden and went to work at planting them. 

:home learning week 1

Welcome Back to Term 2!

I hope everyone had a fantastic 2 week break and is ready to get back into and exciting and productive term. 
Here are a few exciting things that will be happening this term:
- Making our Rongoā Garden.
-Special Mothers day assembly. 
-Cross Country
-Matariki
-Tapuwae
Here is our Room 2, Term 2 newsletter. 

home learning week 10:

Room 2's special visitor...

This morning Chloe brought her lizard in to show Room 2. Chloe said her lizard was a girl and she has had it for nearly two weeks. Chloe has to trap and catch fly's for her lizard to eat. We had to search really hard to try and find the lizard because she was hiding under the grass and rocks in her enclosure. Most of us had never seen a lizard before!!

Home learning week 8:

Waihi community gardens:

Some of Room 2 have been out and about helping the Enviro Group at our Waihi Community Gardens. Last week we planted some herbs and flowers in garden boxes we had cleared. We are so excited to be helping our community out and giving back to Waihi. 

Home Learning week 7:

Beach fun day!!

Last week Waihi Central went to ANZAC Bay as a celebration to end Sea Week. We had an awesome day of swimming, building sandcastles, finding crabs and exploring our beautiful beach. 

Home learning week 6:

Sea Week 2018:

This week we learnt about all things to do with the sea...From writing about the beach, using stinky seaweed as our inspiration to write...To learning about all the amazing Sea Creatures in our ocean. Room 2 enjoyed learning lots from the young ocean explorers website and had so much fun doing all of the quiz's on the website. 
http://www.youngoceanexplorers.com/

Home Learning week 5:

Room 2's Problem solving:

Recently we have had Whaea Jo in our class helping us to begin our problem solving journey. It was fantastic to have Whaea Jo teach a problem solving lesson in class.

After Whaea Jo left Room 2 came up with a list of 'Group Norms' we will follow every time we do problem solving in class.
Some of our norms are:
  • working together as a waka.
  • asking for help,
  • taking risks.
  • learning from our mistakes. 

home learning week 4:

Week 3 was a 'splash'!!

This week we had our senior swimming sports. What a fantastic day. Room 2 students competed in several different events and for most of our students it was their first swimming sports. We were all so proud of all of the students that gave it their all in the races. 

Home Learning week 3:

Statistics-Week 2:

This week we have been learning to gather information, carry out surveys and display data in different forms. Room 2 has learnt how to make tally marks, tally charts, pictographs and bar graphs to record different forms of data.

Home Learning week 2:

Room 2 Treaty:

Today Room 2 read the Tree Hut Treaty. It was about a group of children who built a tree hut and had some disagreements about the rules of the tree hut. The children decided to make a treaty, which are rules or promises that everyone agrees to abide by. After reading the story Room 2 came up with a list of promises that we will use in our class. We all signed our Treaty to show that we agree to follow the rules/promises in our classroom. 

Room 2 Newsletter:

Home Learning week 1: