Reflection of Term 2

On May 26^th we went to the Howick Historical Village for the day and on the 4^th of June we went to M.O.T.A.T for the day and we had a lot of fun. We learnt that new innovations always bring challenges and opportunities. At both these places we saw innovations from the past to the present in housing, work related tools, communication technology, transport etc.

In Mathematics we learnt about measurement in the first part of the term and then we learnt how to multiply and divide using smart strategies. In the last part of the term we also did some work in Algebra.

Technology has been fun for both the girls and boys. In the cooking classes with Miss Tafira we learnt how to make many yummy dishes. Our theme for the term was Kiwiana food and so we made various dishes using New Zealand ingredients.

Room 3 was lucky to have Miss Yee as our student teacher. She was a lot of fun. She helped us with our work. To show our appreciation, before she left we had a shared lunch to thank her for teaching us. During her time with us she would give us fake money when we did something good. At the end of her time with us she brought in some items such as red and blue pens, chocolate, lollipops, ice-creams and pencils. Each of us counted our money and bought something from Miss Yee using our money.

Mrs Parker-Tofa has become a blog addict on behalf of our class. She is constantly putting our work on our blog for us. She has also been teaching us how to use the blog and how to make comments on other students’ work from our school and from different schools in our cluster.

For our Unit Study we had to do I.R.T assignments. Those were fun and helped us learn a lot. We had to research our information. Find a timeline about our topics and then make a presentation using our information. We also had to present our IRT to the whole class and then Mrs Parker-Tofa assessed our work.

For Oral Language we had to write speeches and present our speech to the class. The introduction of our speech was a mihi which we learnt to write with Mrs Bailey in Te Reo.

Term two has been an amazing term. We have been busy all term and we have had fun learning.

I am looking forward to Term 3 and to know what Mrs Parker-Tofa has in store for us.