Friday 30 June 2017

Calendar Art

                                                               Sonia and Amelia
                                                                           Max
                                                                              Isaac
During Arts week room 24 looked at Eric Carle as an author and illustrator. We read many of his books and visited his website to view his painting techniques. We then used a variety of objects to paint with to create interesting and textured effects. Next we used the paper to design a sun and something special that will be displayed in the hall next week.

Friday 9 June 2017

Junior Assembly Year 2 Hosting

 Emily and Jessie and Jade below
 Charlotte
 Amelia
 Alexandra
 Sonia
 Max and Caleb
 Rylee
 Isaac
 James
 Toia
Ayyan
 Last Friday Room 24 presented an item at Junior Assembly telling about our learning during the term. We talked about Crabs, Enviro Week, Antonyms like happy and sad, Anzac Day, A Cat called Kite big book, a tongue twister, sound effects using the circuits and our Visit to the Buddhist temple. Every-one was amazing!!!
A big thanks to Jessica's Nana for helping us out with the face painting!
Aston
Narrators: peter and Aayush
Drake



Monday 5 June 2017

Introducing Hour Of Code


The week before last Mr Armstrong worked with Room 24 introducing them to the website
"Hour of Code" which has an i pad app version. Mrs Dijkstra hopes to use this program as a component of Tinker-time. It requires the children to problem solve and write instructions. We began with a Minecraft theme and later on children can opt for Moana or Star Wars version. This learning builds upon the coding we do with the Osmo Kits and will prepare the class for working with "Scratch" as they progress through the school. James was on hand if  Mr Armstrong had any queries.

Friday 2 June 2017

Tinkertime

Many children in Room 24 have learned to use the circuits to make different sound effects, like an ambulance, a fire engine, a machine gun and a vibration. It was fun but it gave Mrs Dijkstra a big headache.

Making Shapes

As part of our Maths we were given two squares. We folded them in half and then halved the half to make quarters. We ended up with four triangles and four squares. We followed the instructions to use these to make different  shapes. Here James has made a large square.