Term1 Week 4 2018

Week 4 Blog Post 

Kia Ora Koutou, welcome to our latest blog post. This week Year 2 have been thinking about 'When we need to be brave' - this is one of our questions connected to our inquiry. 

To start our week the Timatanga Teachers put on a short play about being brave in the mornings. Mrs Price and Mrs Clarke dressed up as school children! Mrs Skelton and Ms Sinclair were their parents! The teachers were payed by Mr Scurr and Mrs Rodda. 

Our play explored what makes us worried in the mornings and what strategies we could use to help us be brave. 

Year 2 then went on to make some '3 photo stories' about being brave using our ipads. We will turn these into posters this week and then post them on the blog - watch this space! 

Assembly

This week L2 will be hosting. If children are presenting they will take home some script to learn during the week. As always, all parents are welcome to attend. 

Date: Friday 23rd February

Time: 12pm

Place: School Hall

Library Day

Library day is Tuesday, please bring Library folders on this day.

Pegs

Thanks for all your feedback about how the bag pegs are going. We are talking to our Site Manager Bill Page about how we can label the pegs to make it easier for students to manage in the mornings and during the day. We will keep you updated. 

Daily 5 

We have moved onto 'Read With Someone' this week to add to 'Read To Self' and 'Work on Writing'. Below are some pictures of us training to read to each other. 

See below for our Progress Charts for each part of our Daily 5. We are working on our stamina for each component. 

Bug Club 

During this week your child will get a Bug Club password and QR Code in their notebook. It will look like the image below. 

If you have a mobile device you can use a QR Scan App to link to the Bug Club website or you can click on the Big Club icon down the side of the Year 2 Blog page, or click here 

Bug Club will have online reading books assigned to each student for their home reading. Once a week instead of reading with a teacher students will have time to read on Bug Club in class. This will then be their home learning for that night. Bug Club books will match reading levels as they are in class. Students have a free choice of books in their bug club account. 

Have a great week! 

Carl, Lizzie and Kendall, the Year 2 team.