2R'S WILDSELVES

We made our own wildselves for our avatars. We saved them in our folders and then we put them in a Smilebox. It was fun and we think it is a great way to get our avatar. Can you guess who our last 4 wildselves are?

Another scrapbooking design by Smilebox

The Math Monster

We have been having lots of fun taking our new class member "The Math Monster" home each night to do a maths task with him and our family. Each day we will add a voicethread for each person who takes home the Math Monster. Last night James S took home the Math Monster and he taught the math monster how to count to 10 in Dutch. We recorded James on a voicethread counting to 10 in Dutch. We noticed that some of the numbers in Dutch sound the same as when we same them in English. Can you count to 10 in another language?

COLOURFUL CLOTHES DAY

Today we had colourful clothes day at school. Everyone came dressed in their most colourful clothes! There was a competition for each year level and prize given for the person who wore the most colourful clothes. We haven't found out who the winner was in year 2 yet. To be able to wear colourful clothes to school, we had to bring in a gold coin donation. Our $1 and $2 coins are gold so we had to bring in money that was equivalent to $1 or $2. The money we raised was going to be sent to Caritas to help with the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

Mrs R asked us if we knew why we were having coloured clothes day and why we were bringing in a donation. We started talking about what happened in Haiti and just recently in Chile. Sophia asked what an earthquake was and some people shared some information that they knew about earthquakes. We were all very interested in finding out more and Mrs R suggested that we could do and inquiry about earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes. We made a wallwisher to record some of the things we already knew about earthquakes and this afternoon we wrote down on a chart some things that we wanted to know about them. Here is our wallwisher of what we already know.

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!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

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