OUR MONSTER PROJECT

Our monster for the Global Monster Project has finally been made. We were so excited this morning when we got to see all of the body parts made by 2M, 2BP as well as our own class. Mrs R, Mrs M, Mrs B, Mrs J, and Mr S with the help of Caitlin's mum, had to be very creative when we put all of our parts together to create what we think is the BEST MONSTER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!!!!! We were very surprised at how well all the pieces were able to fit together without any alterations. Mr S set up the video and the Macbooks to record the construction process. Have a look at a snippet of what we did. Keep updated with all the other monsters by checking them out at www.smithclass.org/proj/Monsters/index.htm and click on Monsters 2010.

FUN WITH MATHS

Today (26/10/10) we went to the library for an Incursion to do fun things with maths. The person who helped us was called Greg. First we got a partner to work with, then we sat on the floor and listened to Greg's instructions. He asked Lathan and Jack to volunteer to show everyone how to do the chain activity. The chain activity was when you and your partner were chained up with two chains and you have to try and untangle yourself without taking the velcro wrist bands off, it was very tricky. At the end Mrs M and Mrs R showed us how to do it and it took them 3 seconds.

There were 30 activities, some were called Skyscrapers, shoes, pick a wand activity, the marble race tower, different kinds of puzzles, making a cage for T-rex, number puzzles, weighing activities, treasure search activity, train activity, building the same castle as your partner without looking and the landing pad. These activities were called PROBLEM SOLVING ACTIVITIES. We found out that problem solving was tricky but lots of fun if we WORKED TOGETHER and TALKED with each other and GAVE SOLUTIONS to each other. We found out that there were lots of different ways to solve the problems.

OUR MONSTER ACROSTIC POEM

In class we wrote a MONSTER acrostic poem. An acrostic poem is when you use the letters of the subject or topic of the poem to begin sentences to describe the topic. Mrs R showed us a picture of a monster and we came up with words (adjectives) to describe what it looked like and how it moved. We then chose the adjectives we liked the best to write our poem.

Mouth is like a dark cave.
Oval shaped, lime green body.
Noisy like a trumpeting elephant.
Stomps so hard the ground cracks.
Tiny, flat, yellow teeth with green gums.
Enormous, aqua coloured eye on his forehead.
Runs so fast it is a blur.

In pairs we chose a picture of a monster and wrote our own acrostic poems. You will start to these on our blogs and we have made a class Acrostic Poem book about monsters.

THE GLOBAL MONSTER PROJECT

Our grade 2 classes decided to sign up for the Global Monster Project. The project is about working collaboratively with other people around the world to build a monster. First we had to choose a body part that we wanted to describe, then we came up with 8-12 words to describe the part. We described the ears. Now all of the classes have to build the monster by HALLOWEEN (29 October). After we build the monster we will take a picture of it and send it to the monster project site. Everyone in the project votes for the best monster.

Our monster is going to live in our school library.

We are looking forward to participating in the Monster Project.