New Homework Format

You will notice a third page in your child's weekly homework book.  Your child will now be getting a basic facts practice page each week to go with their reading log and essential words practice. I have posted a photo below. Thanks for all your support and hard work at home.

New Addition to Room 2!!!

We are so excited about our new white board table in Room 2. We practiced our doubles facts today in Maths on it.

The Rubbish Trip

Room 2 attended a presentation today called Living Without a Rubbish Bin. We learned from our presenters different ways we can reduce the amount of rubbish we create. It was very interesting to learn some of the little things we can do to make a difference. Mrs. Church loved to hear Room 2 applying and sharing what we learned last term about helping our environment.

Room 2 is ready for the presentation.

Practicing Our Doubles Facts

We are working on becoming more fast fluent with our basic facts. Today we played a partner doubles facts game in Maths.

Hip Hip Hooray for the 100th Day!!!!!!

Room 2 had an awesome day celebrating our 100th day of school. 

We decorated 100th day ties and hats to wear.

We used 100 charts to count 100 fruit loops and then made yummy necklaces with them.

Some of our friends in room 2 brought in things for a 100 collection. It was awesome to see all the different ideas we came up with. We grouped our items so they were easier to count.

 Phoebe grouped her pasta by two's

We had lots of cool 100th day read alouds.

We ended the day with a challenge to see if we could build a structure out of 100 cups without it falling over.

 We did it!!!!!

Room 2 will be celebrating the 100th day of school on Monday.  I discussed with the class that I would love for them to bring in 100 of something on Monday. See the below list for some ideas. Small things would be the easiest and in some kind of bag please. If you are unable to do this or don't see the blog before Monday it is not a problem.

Here are some suggestions if you're looking for ideas of items to send with your child for our class' 100th-day collections.

1. Coins

2. M&M's

3. Pieces of cereal

4. Jellybeans

5. Paper clips

6. Rocks (small ones)

7. Bottle caps

8. Popsicle sticks

9. Beads

10. Dried beans

11. Sunflower seeds

12. Legos

13. Straws

14. Popcorn kernels

15. Cotton balls

16. Buttons

17. Rubber bands

18. Stickers (already stuck on a piece of paper)

19. Markers

20. Crayons

21. Decorative stamps (stamp 10 rows of 10 on a piece of paper)

22. Playing cards

23. Collectible cards, such as Pokemon, Bakugan, etc.

24. Books you've read (write them down on a piece of paper)

25. Words you can write/read

26. Toothpicks

27. Deflated balloons (the class can inflate them up later)

28. List of 100 types of animals

29. Photographs (organised in an album)

30. Tally marks

31. Pieces of macaroni

32. Smarties

33. Marshmallows

34. Feathers

35. Birthday candles

36. Fingers (trace your hands 10 times)

37. Toes (trace your feet 10 times)

38. Fingerprints

39. Pretzels

40. Googly eyes

41. Puzzle pieces

42. Raisins

43. Pipe cleaners

44. Craft pom poms

45. Marbles

46. Golf pencils

47. Eraser toppers

48. Postcards

49. Cotton swabs

50. Index cards

51. Pieces of paper

52. Paper snowflakes

53. Hole punches

54. Stars (hand drawn)

55. Hearts (hand drawn)

56. Seashells

57. Collectible pins/buttons

58. Keys

59. Dominos

60. Grains of rice

61. Action figures (a picture of 100 is probably more manageable than bringing   them all to school)

62. Little plastic animals

63. Twist ties

64. Chocolate chips

65. Sequins (try gluing them into the shape of the number 100)

66. Packing peanuts

67. Paper cups

68. Paper plates

I am so excited to see everyone on Monday!!

Friday Stem Day!

Last STEM day of the term today. We had a great time creating marble mazes. Room 2 had their choice of tons of different supplies. The only criteria was that they had to have a start and end to their maze. I was happy to see that every member of Room 2 gave it a go without asking for help or saying it was to hard. We had a lot of friends that made their maze and then realised they needed to make adjustments. Some friends added amazing :) elements to their mazes as well.

Everyone got started straight away

Mrs. Church Loved seeing everyone in Room 2 super focused.