Week 9 in MR

Writing:

We have been doing some writing about Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr Seuss. We started our stories off by saying “If Thing One and Thing Two came to my house….” We then published our stories with our neatest handwriting. We made little Thing 1 and 2’s by using our hand prints. Check out some of our publishing:

On Tuesday for Writing we wrote about Jelly! We were learning to use interesting words in our stories. We got to touch jelly, smell jelly, look at jelly and TASTE Jelly! We wrote some fantastic stories using describing words. Lots of people thought the jelly looked like a jelly pool, smelt like rose perfume and tasted like melted strawberry ice cream! 

Topic:

We now have our Topic- 'Under the sea' all under way. We started off by sorting animals into different groups. We came up with SOOOO many ways to sort these animals. This linked in with our maths too!

Reading:

For reading this week we focused on our topic. We were all reading books about the sea. During class time we had follow up activities to complete about our stories. We made brochures, posters and charts about the sea.

Maths:

For maths this week we have been learning numbers that make 10! We know that

10 + 0

9 + 1

8 + 2

7 + 3

6 + 4

5 + 5 all make 10!!!!!

Some of us even learnt that if 9 + 1 = 10 then 90 + 10 = 100 , 60 + 40 = 100 etc

So lots of us now know ways to make 100 too!

This week some of us also had a go at spelling numbers properly on whiteboards. We should be able to read and write numbers correctly :-) 

Discovery Wall:

So many people from MR Class have been doing extra work at home for the Discovery wall this week. Lots of children did some extra work about our topic. Take a look:

Week 8 highlights in MR!

School Assembly

Today the Year 2’s finished off their Dr Seuss month. We put all our fantastic learning onto a power point and this got shown at School Assembly today! Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NgSdLSwXls

Discovery Time

Today MR, VH and AS class had their first Discovery time together. Our theme was - Under the sea.

We were focusing on trying our hardest and doing our absolute best! There were so many fun activities. We had a ball! Check out some of the photos:

RAP-unzel

Rapunzel is the hot favourite to win ‘A Land Far Far Away’s Got Talent With X Factor Idol’. She’s a teenage triple threat, with the voice of Lady Gaga, the dance moves of Beyonce, and the hair of… Rapunzel!
But when she refuses to sign a contract with the 'udderly' ruthless 'moosic' producer Simon Cow, he locks her in a recording tower high above the enchanted forest to steal her singing voice with a magic tape machine. What can Rapunzel do now she can’t sing? Rap

We had such a great time and thought the show was very funny! We all had a great laugh.

Blends:

This week we have been focusing on the blends tw & sw ! We should be able to say these sounds, recognise them in our reading and write them in our writing.

Maths:

This week in maths we have been practising our skip counting in fives. We are all getting super good at doing this! We must be practising lots at home too.. We have also had a look at doubling and halving. Doubling numbers means that it’s twice as many. We liked doing this. Some of us used counters to help us. After that we had a go at halving. This was a lot harder than doubling! We will be practising all of these things throughout the year.

Art:

This week we did some “Lorax” art from Dr Seuss. We made ‘truffle’ trees. First we painted the background with water colours. After that we cut long pieces of paper for our tree trunks. Then we cut out the top of the tree and stuck it all together. They look pretty fantastic! 

Week 7 Highlights in MR

Blends 

This week we looked at the blend “th”

We found out that you can have a soft “th” and a hard “th”

We came up with lots of examples. We did a worksheet about the hard “th” and then we made our own like theatre and puppets for the soft “th”

We had heaps of fun making our own little shows.

Athletics 

On Wednesday we had our Junior Athletics. We all had a super great time and we trained really hard! Some of the people in our class came 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd in some of the events. We all dressed up in our house colours to support our house!

At the end of the day we had a house relay. Some of the children in our class were in the relay because they were super-fast runners! I wonder if people remember what house won the relay???

On Thursday we wrote some stories about Athletics. We were trying to use some interesting words in our writing and start it in a fun way! Check some of our stories out:

Run jump throw! Yesterday Adventure Syndicate did Athletics down on the field. We did shot put and long jump and high jump. I jumped like an athlete.

By Matthew

Guess what? Yesterday Adventure Syndicate had Athletics. I jumped like a kangaroo. I felt so exhausted. I won a race. I was super at running. I was wobbling when I was running.

By Evelyn

Yesterday the whole school had Athletics. We did lots of fun sports and some of the parents came to support their kids. My mum came to support me. Some did not have their parents but it was still fun.

By Yvonne

Dr Seuss 

On Thursday we also did a super cool language experience. This week we read the book “Green Eggs and Ham” so we made our own green eggs……. We just pretended that they were real eggs but they were actually chocolate green eggs! Yummmm! 

We got to go to the staff room to use the kitchen. First we melted white chocolate. Then we put a blob of white chocolate onto the baking paper with a spoon. Lastly we put a green M & M on top and waited for it to dry. We thought they were sooo yummy! After that we wrote a poem. We had to come up with interesting words about DR Seuss or Green Eggs and Ham.