Pizza!

Character Book Parade!

Room 7 at the character Book Parade! 
Big thanks to Andi (Milly's mum) for the cool photo! 

Coding Club

Coding Club

Every Friday 3.10 pm – 4pm

Year 2 Learning Space (used to be the Library)

Contact: Mr Scurr (Year 2 L1 Teacher)

carl.scurr@thorrington.ac.nz 

More Info:

http://www.scratchjr.org/about.html

https://scratch.mit.edu/
http://www.codeclub.nz/ 

If you are keen to learn how to use code and create your own computer programs, come along  for a chance to Imagine, Program, Share!

See below for some of the apps we will be using in Coding Club

2016 update!! 
Here are our new robots - we will get these ready for Term 3  2016!!!

For early Coders, here is a fantastic app 

- Daisy The Dino 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278?mt=8 

we are using this in Timatanga for our Discovery Time 

 

There is also Scratch Jrn. on the ipad and tablet - a great beginners level for programming!!!
http://www.scratchjr.org/about.html 

ScratchJr Website Video from Mitchel Resnick on Vimeo.

And finally the full version of scratch - good for more confident coders who have used the previous two apps and would like to advance.

Scratch Overview from ScratchEd on Vimeo.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Last year we found this cool project which has been created by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerburg. We will be signing up again this year once we get a but more confident with our coding - click on the image below to check out the website!

Click here when we sign up!

https://studio.code.org/sections/XDNKAY



We now have these guys in school! 
So now....we can even program ROBOTS! 
Watch this space! 

Click here 

to see how another school is using these robots for deep learning! 

Ignite Time! Construction Fun!

Book Week!

SPCA Visit!

As part of our animal theme for book week we saw a presentation by the Canterbury SPCA! Here are some pictures. 

Balloon Rockets!

http://sciencebob.com/make-a-balloon-rocket/

Excited to make these in our Inquiry Workshops this week! 

I wonder what we will discover? 
I wonder what questions we will have after we have made the rockets?

http://sciencebob.com/make-a-balloon-rocket/

Here are some clips of Balloon Rockets! 

Maths for Today!

Key idea 4: Addition and subtraction problems can be solved by partitioning one of the numbers to go up or back through ten

How can I solve a problem without having to count one by one?

Run Flash animation as an intro - http://nzmaths.co.nz/sites/default/files/Animations/tens.swf

check out this video ‘Adding in Parts’

Wow Words!

A maths video!

Key Idea #4 Groups of Ten can be subtracted by using simple addition facts

How can I use simple facts to solve bigger problems?

Some of us are using this video to help us learn about Tens and Ones! 

Thanks to www.teachertools.co.nz  for this great video, check out some more that we have and will be watching in room 7 this year! 

Lego Starwas

Gala Notice

Building and sharing

Lily told us about her rollacoster holiday on the Gold Coast! Ashley talked about her paua shell

Then Lily demonstrated her amazing material that splats then squidges back into a ball.

Look at our great structures and patterns - we did this during our maths sessions this week