Welcome back to 2014. This year Room 13 is a Year 2 class. Looking forward to learning exciting new things.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Sunday, September 8, 2013
If You Want to Know the Score
Rm 13 really enjoy going to Music with Mrs Corke. We have been learning about beat and tempo and have been practicing changing tempo in a song. Check out this video of our Music lesson.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Nonsense Poems
We have been writing poems during draft writing here in Rm13 for the last couple of weeks. Today, we had a go at writing nonsense rhymes. Here are a few to share with you.
Almost every day,
I eat pickles in a stack of hay.
Every day right at one,
I eat pickles in the sun.
Almost every morning,
I eat pickles with a warning.
Every day right at six,
I eat pickles with lots of licks.
By Bella.
Almost every Monday,
I eat pickles while I play.
Every day right at eight,
I eat pickles with a mate.
By Veeral
Almost every midnight,
I eat pickles with a light.
Every day right at three,
I eat pickles when I agree.
Almost every morn,
I eat pickles with corn.
Every day right at seven,
I eat pickles stacked to heaven.
By Nandani
Almost every day,
I eat pickles with hay.
Every day right at eight,
I eat pickles- they're great.
By Simraj
Almost every night,
I eat pickles while I bike.
Every day right at nine,
I eat pickles because they're mine.
Almost every night,
I eat pickles while I write.
Every day right at three,
I eat pickles up a tree.
By Amber
Aren't they great? Perhaps you could try writing one, too!
Almost every day,
I eat pickles in a stack of hay.
Every day right at one,
I eat pickles in the sun.
Almost every morning,
I eat pickles with a warning.
Every day right at six,
I eat pickles with lots of licks.
By Bella.
Almost every Monday,
I eat pickles while I play.
Every day right at eight,
I eat pickles with a mate.
By Veeral
Almost every midnight,
I eat pickles with a light.
Every day right at three,
I eat pickles when I agree.
Almost every morn,
I eat pickles with corn.
Every day right at seven,
I eat pickles stacked to heaven.
By Nandani
Almost every day,
I eat pickles with hay.
Every day right at eight,
I eat pickles- they're great.
By Simraj
Almost every night,
I eat pickles while I bike.
Every day right at nine,
I eat pickles because they're mine.
Almost every night,
I eat pickles while I write.
Every day right at three,
I eat pickles up a tree.
By Amber
Aren't they great? Perhaps you could try writing one, too!
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Learning to say a Mihi
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Reading new words
In Room 13 we have been looking at all the different things good readers do when they get stuck on a word. This poster shows how you can use strategies to help you figure out how to decode a new word.
How long is a minute?
On Tuesday, we started an investigation into how long a minute is. We began with all of us standing up and sitting down when we thought one minute was up. Some children sat down way too soon and some stayed standing for over two minutes! But at exactly one minute, Gurnoor, Joanna and Inderveer all sat down. Good estimating from these three!
I asked how they knew when to sit down and Gurnoor and Joanna said it was because they counted to 60. Well done guys... but let’s test that. So, Gurnoor turned away from the class and the clock and counted to 60 but this time she finished her counting at just 35 seconds. So we tried counting bananas. One banana, two banana, three banana, four bananas and so on.... But we couldn’t get that quite right either. It will take a bit of practice to get that right and you will have to be good at counting, too!
Next, we tried to guess how many beads we thought we could thread onto a string in a minute.
“59” said Veeral.
“15” said Jason.
“30” said Caleb.
So let’s get threading! Anusha, Hafsah, Andy, Sahibdeep and Jason all threaded as many beads onto a string as they could in one minute. Everybody threaded between 17 and 26. Caleb explained it was because it would take longer than a second to thread one bead. Gurnoor worked out that it would take around two minutes to thread 60 beads.
Okay then, so how many hops do you think you could do in a minute?
“60” said Anikesh.
“25” said Nandani.
“30” said Aayush.
“50’ said Bhavik.
Alright, let’s find out. We chose Simraj to hop as we know he is very fit. We set the timer to one minute and Simraj started hopping. At first, we all counted together but Simraj was so fast that I had to take over. In one minute Simraj hopped 153 times! At the end, he was very tired. And so this how we discovered that some things can happen in much less than a second. (Our athlete Simraj nearly did three hops in a second!)
It was really interesting finding out how even though a minute is always the same amount of time you can do more of some things and less of others!
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