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Thursday, 3 August 2017

Chapter Chat

Twitter Chat Questions:
1. Can you please share any tasks that you have completed this week? Try and leave a reply on someone else's creation.
2. Why might the man have needed two thousand boxes of kiwi flavoured jelly beans?
The man needed 2000 jelly beans because...
3. If the recipe was not for the worms, who might it be for?
The recipe could be for….
4. Who was Barnaby and what did Ben think of him?
Barnaby was … Ben thought...
5. Why was Ben certain that the creature Barnaby brought in was not a bat?
Ben thought the creature was not a bat bat because...
6. How did Ben feel now about the boring town of Buttonville? Why?
Ben thought Buttonville was boring because...
7. Why do you think Ben needed the help of Pearl Petal?
Ben needed Pearls help because...
8. Why did Ben think the old Button Factory was haunted?
Ben thought the button factory was haunted because….
9. Ben signed the piece of paper. Do you think this was a good idea? Explain your answer.
I think it was a bad idea for ben to sign the paper because..
10. What do you think will happen when they enter the identification room?
I think they will be trapped when they enter the identification room.

Monday, 29 May 2017

Hour of code

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On Monday while the year 3 girls were away at the rippa tournament getting signatures from Otago players, the rest of us dabbled in some coding games. 
We had a lot of fun and our brains were working hard to solve the problems in the games. 

Here is a great video to watch about why coding is useful for our young ones if you are interested.

 Now that we have all logged in and had a practise, we may even get to add this to our 'Can Do' options. 

We saw some great problem solving, perseverance and persistence, especially from some of our year 2 students! Van and Charlotte were helping others and got up to really high levels. Ka Pai!



Writing

We are learning about describing our nouns with adjectives. Check out Mabel's awesome writing about the image below. Ka Pai Mabel!

Thursday, 18 May 2017

Trip to Dunedin

What an amazing time we all had in Dunedin on Wednesday. The whole Junior syndicate visited the Toi Toi Museum along with the Otago Museum. We hunted for treasures about Asia at both places. At the Otago Museum we got to role play different parts of the Chinese New year. We learned lots about it. Here are some of the things we learned: 1. Chinese New Year is In January or February 2. People clean their houses for NewYear 3 There are fireworks 4. People dress up in special clothes 5. People eat yummy foods with chopsticks 6. Red is avery special colour 7. People give out red envelopes with money in them

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Wontons

We have been super busy this week! We made some Wontons with Mrs Souness, and her mum Mrs Wong came in to help. Some people liked the wontons and some people didn't, and some people were not brave enough to give them a try!
We all loved making them and had a really great time! We enjoyed smelling the ingredients and talking about how they felt and smelled. What a fun day!