EOTC Week

This week is our EOTC (Education Outside The Classroom) week.  What a start we have had!  We began by painting around some stormwater drains to remind everyone at our school that whatever enters these drains, ends up in the sea.  We want to keep our seas healthy and clean - Healthy Seas, Healthy People (the theme of this year's seaweek).

What a beautiful octopus - well done girls!

What a colourful shark - excellent team work boys!

Science in Room 2

Room 2 loves learning about science!  This term, we are using our observation and thinking skills to find about our natural and living environment.  We have a classroom swan plant and a monarch caterpillar, which has turned into a pupa (or chrysalis).  We also have a classroom kumara and we are observing how it has changed over the past 2 weeks.  Have a look at our photos below...

We are having a closer look at our swan plant, caterpillars and chrysalis.

We are taking a closer look at the roots and leaves of our kumara.

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Art - W.A.L.T colour in

This term, each class at May Road School has a swan plant and monarch caterpillars. We're observing what happens to the caterpillars and the plant.  Why? Because we see them outside in our gardens and we want to find out more about them both.  

So, for our assembly with our big buddy class Room 14, we thought we'd do something around The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  We coloured in pictures to show at assembly while children from Room 14 read the story.  We practised colouring in by using shorter, controlled lines in one direction.  This helped to create tidy, coloured pictures.  

Swimming

Hand up!

Practising straight-leg kicks

Practising straight-leg kicks

We are so fortunate to have swimming instructors at May Road School!  They will be working with the children in the pool for 2 weeks, building water safety skills and confidence.  Have a look at Room 2's photos... 

Room 2, 2016

Warm greetings and a big welcome to our students and families for 2016! We are looking forward to an exciting year of learning.  Thanks for visiting our blog, the Room 2 learning community welcomes your comments!

The Great New Zealand Shake Out 

At 9.15am on Thursday 15th October, the children at May Road School took part in the NZ Shake Out to practise what to do during an earthquake.  Here are some of the children from Room 11 who remembered to DROP, COVER, HOLD.  Well done!

Keeping safe during an earthquake drill.

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Science with Sally

We had such a fun and informative science session with Sally, from Watercare, today! Sally had organised several water science experiences. Have a look...

Molecules in a solid state are close to each other and do not move around much.

Molecules in a liquid state are a bit further apart and move around more...

...and molecules in a gas state are far apart and move around a lot!

Feeling the effect of water in the gas state (steam).

Exploring magnification...

...and refraction (when light rays are bent). Wow!

Learning about surface tension.