Monday 15 December 2014

Our Christmas Play

Today we performed the christmas play for the other classes at school in the morning and for our parents, grandparents and friends in the afternoon.
Tillie had the role of being the inn keeper and she was a terrific leading lady. Our readers Charlotte and Josh kept everyone informed about the story of Jesus' birthday - they read clearly and beautifully.
All of the other characters, singers and actors alike were just great.
To see all of the photos of our play go to stannes101blogspot but Mrs Grant took a photo of us all in our costumes this morning.


Thursday 4 December 2014

The Impossible Bridge

Orange group have been reading a book called "The Impossible Bridge".
The children in the story had to make a bridge using only one piece of A4 paper and there could only be one cut of the paper at the most. Then the bridge had to support a toy car so we decided to give it a try too.

Tillie and Eliza were successful and they built a second bridge just the same as at the back of their reading book to see if it really did work.






Wednesday 3 December 2014

Our Postie Boy

Austin and Denise delivered a very special envelope last Friday.
"Denise and I walked down the road to Woolston to post Room 2's Christmas letter to Santa."said Austin.
We hope that Santa writes a letter back to us here at school.

Wednesday 26 November 2014

Kiwisport

It was great to get on the field and try out our soccer skills last Wednesday. Ata from Kiwisport had us dribbling the ball and using both feet.


Austin dazzled us with his expert skills. Well done.

We had a fabulous time during the relays.

Monday 24 November 2014

A and P Show

We are at the farmyard feeling the coats of the woolly lambs.


The chicks feel so soft and warm.
You can just stretch to touch the lambs tail Tillie! 
We enjoyed listening to the band at lunchtime. Some children even got up to dance.
We will not be alarmed by the llamas- they are so cool.

Thanks Courteney for taking the photos.

Welcome

Talofa. Welcome to Room 2 Sophia. We hope you will be very happy at St Anne's school.

Thursday 16 October 2014

Super Science

Science Alive

Room 2 were all architects, designers and builders today when Science Alive came to school to talk about the city. It was awesome!

Monday 21 July 2014

Welcome Hollie and Olly


Shiloh's Birthday

 
Thank you Shiloh for sharing your birthday celebration with us.



Shiloh’s Birthday

It was Shiloh’s birthday on Monday.

While we were working, we saw Flor and Gordon at our classroom door.

They were holding yummy cupcakes and a stack of pizzas. We wondered why they were bringing treats for us. Then we remembered that it was Shiloh’s birthday.

The cupcakes had chocolate icing with colourful sprinkles on them. Some of them had cars or dinosaurs on a stick and others had fairies.

We sat in a circle and ate the delicious pizzas first. There were four different toppings on the pizzas so we could choose our favourite.

Afterwards we felt we felt very happy that we could help Shiloh celebrate his birthday.

By Room 2


Term 3 Newsletter


Room 2 Newsletter Term3 2014

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome back to another school term. It is nice to know that we will have more daylight to enjoy as the term progresses.

A lot of the children managed to avoid sicknesses last term, so hopefully they can stay well this term and enjoy all the fun activities that are planned.

Our theme this term is Communication. We thought it would be fun to look at how we communicate through The Arts. We will be observing our changing city scape and using drama, dance and music to express what we see and understand. A trip to the Art Box in the city is planned, as well as a visit to the Linwood Library on Friday,1st August. We are lucky to have this trip paid for by the school.

The Health topic this term is the excellent “Keeping Ourselves Safe” programme. Watch out for more about this in the school newsletter.

There will be lots of opportunities for a variety of writing and oral language exercises. We will be exploring the narrative genre in particular. Later in the term Room 1 and 2 will have our annual Poetry Recital competition. This is a great confidence booster for the children. More information on this will follow closer to the event.

Kiwi Sport will continue this term and Room 1 and 2 will also be having the 2 regular PMP sessions each week. It is wonderful to see the confidence and skills that have been developed in the children who have been doing this programme since we first introduced it in 2012. It is certainly very worthwhile. The children love it and we are all grateful to the generous parents who volunteer to make this possible.

This term starts with our St Anne’s Feast Day celebration on Friday to which you are all invited (see school newsletter). The term ends with the Mission Fair. In our RE programme we will be covering the Church strand and also be introducing the Sacrament strand when we will learn more about our baptism. We will also be acknowledging Social Justice Week.

Don’t forget to check out our class blog : stannes102.blogspot.co.nz. and feel free to  register as a follower and post comments. You are also welcome to email photos of special events or visitors that the children might like to share. Room2@stannes.co.nz

Children who celebrate their birthday or half birthday will be receiving their reports this term. This will be followed up by an interview.

Thanks for all your support.
Marian

Tuesday 6 May 2014

Newsletter


Newsletter for Room 2, Term 2   2014

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

We had a mixed bag of weather these holidays but I hope you all managed to have some fun times with your children. With the winter term upon us the goal will be to stay healthy and avoid the bugs. If your child is sick, please keep him/her home.

Every term we have a school-wide theme and this term it is Sustainability under the science umbrella. Room 1 and 2 will be staying close to home and exploring the Estuary and the difference that we can make to keep it healthy. With this in mind we plan to catch the Red Bus to the Estuary on Wednesday, the 14th May, weather permitting. If not, we will go on Friday, 16th May. Can your child please bring $2 to school for the bus. On the day they will also need to bring an extra pair of sturdy shoes and a jacket.

In English the main genre will be descriptions. Hopefully we will have lots of opportunity from our exploring of the Estuary and other activities to talk and write about and to develop descriptive language skills in reading, writing and oral language.

In the first week of the term we will be learning more about the Easter season in Religious Education and then we will explore some traditional prayers. I have enclosed an overview of this study to help you support these ideas with your child. When that is concluded we be covering the Holy Spirit strand and beginning the Jesus Strand.

The Perpetual Motor Programme will commence again this term. This is hugely popular with the children and so beneficial for all aspects of their development. Thank you so much to the parent help who make this programme possible. If you find you are able to support us in this programme at any stage, please let me know as it will run for 2 terms. We will also be continuing with Kiwi Sport.

Visual Arts will be the main art topic for the term but there will also be opportunities to explore dance, drama and music through all the other curriculum areas.

Don’t forget to look on our blog (stannes102.blogspot.com) to see some of the activities the children are involved in and the children’s own work. Thanks to those who write a comment. We really enjoy them. Most of the children’s work is done in their Learning Book and they all take pride in everything they put in this book. Sometimes your child will bring it home to show you what they have done. Please ensure that it is returned to school promptly.

Lastly, just a reminder to read the Newsletter each week and to check what is on. Sometimes dates change and I wouldn’t want  you to miss something important.

Thank you for all your great support and keep up the good work you do with your children.

 

Marian

Monday 5 May 2014

Welcome Tillie

 
Room 2 are thrilled to have a new student.
Welcome Tillie.
We hope you enjoy being at St Anne's.


Tuesday 15 April 2014

Drama

Thank you Anne and Michelle for the great drama lessons. We loved it!

Sunday 9 March 2014

Tuesday 4 March 2014

Thursday 27 February 2014

Wednesday 26 February 2014

Picnic in the Park


Dear Austin

Dear Austin,

Thank you sending us some pictures of you in hospital. It looks very scary and we feel sorry for you but you look like a brave, happy boy.

Who are the funny clowns in the background?

Love from your friends in Room 2

Monday 24 February 2014

Thursday 13 February 2014

Austin's Poster

Austin made this lovely poster with Denise. He will be 7 in April.