TERM TWO - Today's mahi...

Kei te mahi tatou i tenei ra...

Wednesday 30th June/

Wenerei te toru tekau o Hune

As Mrs Hall was away today and her class were split we changed the order of our day. We also didn't do word work as we had a longer writing editing and recrafting session.

Patrols

We are on patrols this week.

Remember, if you can't make one of your duties, please let me know as soon as you can so that we can arrange someone to cover for you.

Karakia me Pepeha o Mangapapa

Let's start our day with our MK Karakia and Pepeha


Through this we are meeting our te reo schoolwide progressions as we are able to;

  • Say and know the actions to the school blessing and/or karakia - He Honore

  • Say and know the actions to the school pepeha -Mangapapa Pepeha

Copy of Karakia me Pepeha mo Mangapapa

Our Maramataka

Now let's share our maramataka for today.

Through our calendar we are learning to ask/answer;

  • Today's date in te reo (day, number, month)

  • The day it was yesterday

  • The day it will be tomorrow

  • The day's weather

  • The current season

Maths time!

Maths changeover today.

Room 2 Maths group can find today's learning by clicking on the button below.

Fitness

Word Work

Independent:

Steps Web or Spelling Words

You can either continue with your Steps Web programme or use the time to keep learning your spelling words.

Independent

Vowel team - 'oo' Good Food

Today you need to sort the words with the 'oo' vowel team.

Do they have the sound like in good or the sound in food?

Cut out the words and glue them into your books.

Vowel team 'oo' - Good food

With me:

Y rule: Keep the Y or change the y when adding a suffix to a word ending.

Let's find out more...

Y Rule

MORNING TEA

Writing


Our writing task

Today's during our writing time we will continue to work on our 'The Skypath' text.

Think about;

*Your hook in/opening line

*Vocabulary

*Punctuation

*Sentence starters

The Skypath pre-writing and writing activities

Reading time!

We will start our reading before lunch and continue after our lunch break.

Steps Web

Those of you with a STEPS account need to continue with your programme.

Silent Reading

The rest of Room 2 need to be using this time to practise their reading skills and strategies by SILENT reading!

Have you chosen the right spot?

Guided Reading

Reading with Ekam, Xavier R and Maia

Today's focus: Rereading text, Speed reading, /a/ sounds

This week for our reading we are exploring SPACE.

You need to look at the texts for today, and decide which text you would like to explore for today's reading.

You will need your device.

TEXT #1

What is the weather like on other planets?

Have you ever wondered what the weather was like on Venus?

Do you wonder if the weather we have on Earth is the same on other planets?

If so, this could be the text for you!

TEXT #2

What is a black hole?

Do you want to know what a black hole is?

Have you wondered how a black hole forms?

If so, this could be the text for you!


Independent Activities:

Koru writing...

If you didn't get it posted to your blog, please share your Koru writing to your blog.

Tick on the tracking sheet below when you have moved it to your writing folder and posted it on your blog please.

Tracking my mahi - Room 2 - Koru Writing

Our Atua...

Continue working on the slides/book creator book around the Atua that we started yesterday afternoon.

Full details can be found on Monday's page if you were away.

Wonderopolis

A few of you asked about whether it is possible to live on other planets when we were reading yesterday.

Read the wonderopolis text to find out the answer to your question.

Exploring Space...

If you would like to find out more about SPACE or the PLANETS, check out this website.

There are also a pile of books in the class around planets, space, stars, etc that you might like to explore too.

LUNCHTIME

We will continue our reading in this block until we go to the Library.