Week 8

What a busy bunch of bees we have become!  We are learning about the living world in science INSECTS "delicate flyers and deadly predators!"  We are learning about characteristics of insects and eventually, we will be writing an investigative report on an insect of our choice.

We had 28 children out of 29 participate in the school triathlon.  Even myself (Mrs Clark) participated in the teachers team!  We came in 6th place overall and I hear from parents that they will enter a team next year!  We look forward to athletics over the coming weeks, Easter Fair and of course somewhere in there is the Weetbix triathlon here in Palmerston North.

A huge achievement in Room 2 has been our progress in writing.  We have discovered some big words that can change an okay piece of writing into something magical and interesting by using:

- conjunctions to make our sentences longer
- a variety of punctuation including speech marks (when someone is talking), commas, full-stops, question and exclamation marks.
- interjections which are action words like "Wow!", "Hey!"
- compound words which help us with our spelling
- contractions that are shortened words like 'that's' instead of 'that is'.
- adjectives which are great, juicy describing words.

This week we identified all these wonderful writing tools in other peoples writing.

Later this week we hope to begin recorder lessons.  The recorder needs to stay at school and you are encouraged to use your own recorder if you have one.

Have a wonderful week and we hope to add our stories and classroom work here really soon.