Room 2 Blog: August 2008

China

This term we are working on our China inquiry. We have been looking at the Olympics and other aspects about the country and the culture. We have made PowerPoint’s in pairs for a mini project utilizing the subject areas the famous places in China, the colours, dragon dance, festivals and the Olympic game symbols.

Mathletics

For the last two weeks the school has been happily enjoy the fun of maths week. Jean of Room 6 is coming first in the country with over 400,000 points putting our school into 11th in the country!

Healthy Habits of Mind

This term we have started up a small programme to help us with our work and keep us paced. It is called The Healthy Habits of Mind and we have a new topic each week.

Starting with Persistence we have been happily aiming for these goals all term and are seeing how making they help make things in general less stressful.

Division

Well done to the people who have successfully made it into the division crew. These people are; Charquera, Olive, Olivia, Angela, Lakan, Taylor, Olly, Matt, Georgina, Isaac, Sam, Cameron, Kayleigh and Nimthara. This means they get over 95% in their timetables in under three minutes. We know that everyone in trying hard to achieve this goal and are doing very well.

Healthy Heroes

Just a small reminder that you must do healthy heroes each week. If you do not have access to a computer you must go on before school on Friday. Come on guys don’t let them down!

Laptops

We have had some issues with the laptops this term and last term. Although we are improving, we still need to take special care of them. Remember this is a privilege to use these computers.

China Inquiry

This term for our topic we have been learning about China. For the first time, we have each come up with our own Big Question based on something about China we want to learn more about. We have come up with research questions to help us answer our main one. After we have all of our information we will be sharing our findings in different ways.

Art

A few weeks ago we had an art workshop in the hall, with Room 1 and Room 3. It went on for the whole middle block (which is between morning tea and lunch).

They all look fabulous!!!

Dancesplash

On Friday the 22nd of August, the whole school went to the Michael Fowler Centre to watch and support our school in the Schools To Schools event, where many schools around the region came to show their talent. There were choirs, bands and lots of different dances.

Our school did are dance. We were very impressed and enjoyed it a lot. The people who danced from our class are; Olive, Georgina, Olivia, Angela, Josh and Jacob.

Geometry Celebration

Check out our finished products!