MEET OUR MATHS MONSTER

Year 2 meet our MATH MONSTER!


He/She will go home each night with a member of our class. You will choose a task to do with the Maths Monster and your family from the Maths Monster's Bag.

You will record in the Maths Monster journal the activity you did, how you did it and a photo of you and the Maths Monster completing the task. You will then bring it back to school with you the next day and share what you did with the class. The Monster will then go home with another class member.

Do you think our Maths Monster needs a name? What do you think we should call him/her?

WORD WALL

We do word wall every day at school. During word wall we practise our 5 new words every week. We start by doing Word Observations. This is where we look for spelling patterns, tricky parts and little words inside of big words. We then do word wall chants to practise spelling them. After that we play games to remember the words like "Don't Break The Ice", "Buzz Off Your Out", "Smack" and "Hangman". We than do different activities to learn the words. These activities are decorative writing, play dough, letter stamps, magnetic letters, foam letter blocks, typing on our pretend keyboards and using "Spelling City". At the end of the week we have to tell Mrs R one thing about each word before we give it a round of applause and send it to the word wall.
Check out our Animoto to see some of the activities we do!

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2010 Winter Olympics Project

Our class is taking part in a global project for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. We have our own page and we have tasks we are asked to do. One task was to find out the different sports in the Winter Olympics. We put them into a picture trail and labelled some of them. Here is our picture trail. You could also go to the wiki to see our home page. Do you know some of the sports in the Winter Olympics?

http://www.oxs.si/trgovina/product_info.php?products_id=123&language=en&osCsid=vopm392414dv1np6gkie35av33
http://www.awg.gl/sports.html
http://www.zimbio.com/ISU+Four+Continents+Figure+Skating+Championships+2008
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ccsai.ca/media/photo/CCSAI/4977587012b12/500x336.53846153846_ice%2520hockey.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ccsai.ca/articles/view/1471&usg=__gChwMGboyeR-s_OalseBl7s5tU4=&h=336&w=500&sz=24&hl=en&start=14&itbs=1&tbnid=lxNlunfIhi8CTM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dice%2Bhockey%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1
http://www.skeletonsport.cz/frmTexts.aspx?idtxt=1
http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/bright-just-not-right/2006/02/14/1139890741531.html
http://www.squidoo.com/winter-olympic-events
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/adam_hofstetter/02/15/scorecard.daily/index.html
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/kVNRFSbc0w1/2008+ISU+World+Short+Track+Speed+Skating+Championships/SayZO45jjls/Yuka+Kamino
http://english.people.com.cn/90002/94411/94442/6461949.html

TRY THIS WORD SEARCH

2R I have made a word search of the number names counting in tens from 10 to 90. Have a go at finding them . All you have to do is move your cursor to the beginning of the word, click and drag the mouse to the end of the word and unclick. The program will high light the word for you.

Make Your Own Word Search

ASH WEDNESDAY

Today is Ash Wednesday which is the start of Lent. On Ash Wednesday we get ash on our forehead. The ashes come from the palm leaves used on Palm Sunday last year. Ash Wednesday is the start of our waiting time for Easter.

PANCAKE DAY!

Today is Pancake Day and we made pancakes in class. Pancake Day is the day before Ash Wednesday. It is also called Shrove Tuesday. The 6/7's made us pancakes at first break. They cost 50c. and that money will go to Project Compassion. They raised $180 for Project Compassion. They tasted YUMMY!!

DANCE CART

This term we are doing Dance Cart. Dance Cart is a group of dance teachers who come out to the school every Monday to teach us dancing. Every class goes to their Dancing Lesson. We go with the 2mgems. Last year our dances were to songs from well known movies. This year our dances are going to be to songs about AUSTRALIA.

Our dance and song is about our beaches, surfers and lifesavers. The girls are the swimmers, 2R boys are the Lifesavers and 2M boys are the surfers. We will start to learn the dance steps in our lesson on Monday.

Each of our lessons start with a warm up, then we learn some dance steps for our Aussie dance and at the end we have a cool down.

During the lessons we wear name tags and the teachers put a star stamp on our name tag if we are listening and being sensible. At the end of the term the person or people with the most star stamps get a prize!

WORLD MATHS DAY

On Friday Mrs R told us about WORLD MATHS DAY on March 3rd. It is a day when children and adults all around the world participate in Mathletics World Maths Day Live Challenge. It is a chance to improve our numeracy skills while having FUN!

Mrs R registered our class for the big day and we were given our usernames and passwords. We logged in, which was a bit tricky and we were able to play against children in other countries as well as in our own class. It was lots of fun! We will be using our login details at home and at school so we can practice for the big day! We can't wait!

BOYS AND THEIR BUILDING

During our first 2 weeks at school, we have been earning FREE TIME MINUTES. To earn a free time minute we all have to be on task and we have to be a 5 star listener. If Mrs R sees that we are doing these things we all earn a FREE TIME MINUTE (we can also lose a FREE TIME MINUTE if we are not doing these things). At the end of the day we count up our FREE TIME MINUTES and that is how long we get for free time before we go home.



Some boys in our class have been using their free time to build roads, buildings and garages with the wooden blocks, while others have been using the Mobilo to make cars, rockets, aeroplanes and spaceships.



They have been working cooperatively to create their objects and then both groups have been combining their creations.



When it is time to pack up the boys have been very keen to keep their creations but because we have limited space in our room they decided that they could take a photo with the digital camera.



Here are some of their creations in Smilebox and an Animoto.

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2R's MARVELLOUS MEDICINE!

After reading all of the things that George put into the pot to make a medicine for Grandma, we decided to write our own Marvellous Medicine. This is what we thought we would put into 2R's Marvellous Medicine.

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  10 brown rats


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  1 bottle of salt and pepper


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  2 spoons of sugar


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  15 poisonous baby scorpians


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  10 stinky shoes


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  7 chunks of chocolate


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  6 electric eels

George's Marvellous Medicine

We are reading George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. We have made a wordle about Grandma. This is what we think Grandma is like.