Farewell from Room 2

Due to a reorganisation of the rooms  our classroom is no longer used. Soon we will be sharing our learning with you via the Room 3 blog found at    bradfordroomthree.blogspot.com 

Thanks for being part of our learning journey!!

Room 2

Spuds in a bucket!!!

Today (Wednesday 5th Nov) Mr Graham and Jordan from the school council came to give us all a red bucket.

We decorated it with vivid pens and then went over to the school garden to get some dirt.

Mr Graham then put in a handful of fertiliser to help feed the plant as it grows. He put in a seed potato with the sprouts pointing upwards.

Then he put in some more dirt on the top. We will have to remember to water out potato and put it in the sun and we will be able to take home our potatoes and eat them over the holidays!!

Yum, Yum!

Hula Hooping

On Tuesday we had a visit from Milly who came to our school to show us how to use a hula hoop. She talked to  us and demonstrated all the different ways we could use the hoop around our bodies. She showed us how to start it around our waist. Milly had lots and lots of brightly coloured hoops for us to experiment with. It was so much fun!!

Special Visitors to Room 2

On Thursday Josiah and his mum brought along his two piglets for us to look at. They were very cute. They were in a bin with some hay to keep them warm. They were very small - only two weeks old. They drink milk from their mum but when they are bigger they will eat almost anything. Josiah said they don't like orange skins much or onions. They made little squealing noises when Josiah's mum picked them up and they were a bit scared. We tried to be really quiet. We liked having them in our classroom!

Kiwiana Art By Room 2

Here is Xanthe's art work. Notice the lovely koru shapes on the frame.

Here is Grace's piece of art. She has some lovely 'greenstone' shapes on her frame also.

Cameron's Buzzy Bee is flying over the mountains. Cameron has some  NZ koru shapes on his frame.

Kiwiana at the Art Gallery

On Friday we went to the Art Gallery to look at some of the art there that has a kiwi flavour to it. Here we are listening to John our Art Gallery teacher. 

After looking at some art we went into the classroom to create our own pieces. We drew a buzzy bee - one of New Zealand's icons - and coloured it with pastel. We cut it out and stuck it onto a picture from around New Zealand. 

We stuck foil onto the frame and cut out shapes from 'greenstone' (textured paper) to put on top of the foil. We love our masterpieces which are going to be displayed in our classroom at school.

Kiwiana

In Room 2 we are learning about what makes New Zealand special. We have been talking about icons - a symbol or picture of something that is unique to our country. We have created some pictures using kidpix to show some of the well known New Zealand icons.

This is Campbell's  New Zealand flag.

Here is Salani's kiwi.

Jack's All Blacks are ready to play.