Crazy about Bees

We have been 'busy as bees' in Room 1 and 2 learning about Bees and creating DLO's. We have created videos about how bees make honey using either WeVideo or Google Slides along with Screencastify. We have also made QR codes of our videos and put them onto our wall to share with others.

Our display of QR codes for the videos.

An example of the poster with the QR code.

An explanation about the dance of the honeybee.

HERO Day

On Tuesday we all had a great morning for Hero Day. The ambulance, police and fire service came along to share their role in the community with us and talk to us why they are heroes. There were lots of fun activities. We got to crawl through a tunnel to practise get down, get low, get out if our house is on fire. The police recorded how fast we could run using their speed camera. Mosese was the fastest! We also got to have turns on the different stretches in an ambulance.
Here are some photos of our day.

The tunnel!

Checking out the fire truck.

Checking out the chair stretcher.

The Challenge Tunnel

 Then they challenge the school to a tug of war using a fire hose. It was the emergency services against the senior school. The emergency services won 2 out of the 3. 

The emergency service team.

The Senior Team

Honey Bees

For reading we have been learning how to skim and scan for information. Then find key words and write the facts into our words. This week we read a book about Honey Bees. We used google drawing to explain the different parts of the book about honey bees. Each group read a different chapter from the book and have created their own drawing to explain. We have put them all together in a slide.

Recycled Musical Instruments

For Art this term we created musical instruments from recycled materials. We had to plan our design and decide what materials to use. We then used our instruments to play Three Little Birds by Bob Marley.
Here we are performing it at our assembly

Olympics Day

On Friday we had our Olympics Sport Day, run by our Senior School.  We were all given a card that listed all the sports and activities available.  We got to choose which activity or sports we wanted to do. Each one we competed in gave us points. The children with the most points won the gold, silver and bronze medals. For Team Awa Sam won the gold, Antonio won the silver and Deevon won the bronze. Everyone had a great time. Here are a few pictures of our day.

Maths

In maths, we have been working hard at solving addition and subtraction problems using a strategy instead of counting. For addition, we have been making a tidy number first then adding the rest on.

For subtraction, we have been doing it by splitting the number into parts. We are getting very clever at using these strategies. We starting subtracting one digit numbers and splitting them but now we are challenging ourselves and subtracting small two digit numbers.

Here are two videos explaining subtraction in parts.

Solving the subtraction problem 45 - 16, by splitting the 6 in 16 into parts.

Solving the subtraction problem of 81 - 17.

Term Three

Welcome to Term Three
This term is going to fly by very quickly with it being a short term. Team Awa have lots planned so watch this space to check out what we have been up to. We are busy planning our movies for the Movie Night, learning about measuring perimeter, area, capacity/volume and weight and creating musical instruments from recycled materials this week.