Rhubarb - the Mystery Fruit

Leaf or stalk

Chopped up and ready to simmer.

Fruit starting to mush up.

The Lions read the  Junior Journal 44 story, That's the Idea, about gardening and the Zebras read Leaves.  Then we harvested some rhubarb from the school vegie garden; should we eat the leaves or the stalks?  Most people thought the leaves!  We chopped up the stalks with apple and cooked them  with water and sugar on a hot plate in the classroom.  The smell was delicious!  After the fruit had cooled, most people tried a little sample after lunch.

Kelly Sports

 Kelly Sports came to Cockle Bay and took every class at the school for a Kelly Sports session. It was a great way to start the new term!

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths)

We changed the slope of the ramp using more, or less, Maths books

We have one STEM lesson a week in Maths, with a different theme each term.  In term 1 STEM (Science),  we measured and recorded length in metres and centimetres to see how far different balls and marbles travelled down a ramp, and made comparisons.  In term 2 STEM (Technology,) we measured quantities in grams to make different substances.  In  term 3 STEM (ICT), we are learning to use and read non-digital code.

Matariki

We read the book, Matariki, and then we telescopes so we could view the Seven Sisters.  We drew Maori designs around the telescope, and cellotaped black paper at one end.  We pinpicked seven hopes in the black paper to make the constellation, which we could see when we held the telescope up to the light.  We started these in term 2 and just had them finished in time for the end of Matariki in week 1.

Reading Logs

We counted up the total nights of reading we have done since the beginning of the year, and then we stood in order of number.  Hinus was our champion with 104 nights of reading - fabulous work!

Reading our PPP parent letters

On the last day of term, we read the letters our parents had sent about our PPPs.  It was  exciting to receive our own mail at school, and super relaxing to read it in our PJs! 

Teddies find reading tricky, so we had to read it to them ourselves.

Last day of term 2

In the same way as term1, everyone in Room 18 collaborated to make a PMI  (positive, minus, interesting) chart about Term 2.

There was plenty of room on the last day, even for two (quite well behaved) giraffe because
we had moved our desks to the edges of the room.

It was a strange day because we wore PJs all day; doing our spelling tests, fitness, reading our PPP parent letters, even singing in the choir at the celebration assembly!