THE GLOBAL MONSTER PROJECT

We had lots of fun working together to create our monster for the global monster project. We have sent our photo to Mr Smith at Monster Central to show everyone what our finished monster looks like, we have yet to give it a name. Do you have any suggestions? Leave a comment with your suggestion. All the year 2 children decided that it looked more like a boy than a girl and maybe it should have the word Aussie in its' name.



We spent last Friday morning(29 October) putting our monster together and this was the first time that most of us got to see what some of the other body parts looked like because the other 2 classes were making them.



Our teachers helped us put all the parts together and we were amazed at how it looked when it was all completed. We were very surprised that none of the parts had to be altered or changed in any way to fit together. That must mean we really thought about the part we were making and we collaborated really well with others who were making the other parts.



We made a onetruemedia to show who made the different parts and putting it all together!

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

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.

COUNT US IN

Today our school took part in MUSIC, COUNT US IN. Children from Prep to year 12 all over Australia joined in singing the song PLAY YOUR PART. We sang this song to let everyone know how important music is and how much fun it is.

COME PLAY YOUR PART

Year 2 here are the words to Come Play Your Part, the song we are singing on Thursday for Count Us In.

It's your time, what are you feeling?
Look all around, can you believe it?
Give it your all, let it flow through you
I'm by your side, all we need to do is...(sing)

Don't have to hide what's inside you (all you gotta do is...sing)
Let it out, let it surround you

We're gonna shout, we're gonna sing
Let the music give us all we need
Lay down a groove - move to what we feel inside
Feel the rhythm, keep the beat,
Feel it in your hands and in your feet
Lift your voice, find it in your heart, come play your part

Don't have to hide what's inside you (all you gotta do is ...sing)
Let it out, let it surround you

We're gonna shout, we're gonna sing
Let the music give us all we need
Lay down a groove, move to what you feel inside
Feel the rhythm, keep the beat,
Feel it in your hands and in your feet
Lift your voice, find it in your heart, come play your part

ooh x2

Come play your part, sing from the heart
You can't get it wrong, who knows you might even get it right

Come play your part, sing from the heart
You can't get it wrong, who knows you might even get it right

We're gonna shout, we're gonna sing
Let the music give us all we need
Lay down a groove, move to what you feel inside
Feel the rhythm, keep the beat,
Feel it in your hands and in your feet
Lift your voice, find it in your heart, come play your part

We're gonna shout, we're gonna sing
Let the music give us all we need
Lay down a groove, move to what you feel inside
Feel the rhythm, keep the beat,
Feel it in your hands and in your feet
Lift your voice, find it in your heart, come play your part