Room 4 - Miss Karen Wymer (Yr 1-2 Team Leader)
 

During Term 2 we learnt about various cultures and some of their traditions, activities, art and dance.  As part of this unit we had a fantastic trip to Knighton Normal School and the Hamilton Gardens.  At Knighton Normal School we took part in a Powhiri.  Then the children shared some songs with us and some of the children introduced themselves and told us which part of the world they came from.  Back at school we used the globe to find the countries.  At the Hamilton Gardens we visited the special gardens such as the Chinese Garden, English Garden, Japanese Garden etc.  This allowed us to talk about the things that are similar and different to our own gardens. 

We were really lucky during Term 2 to have Janene come and take us for music.  She brought along lots of props and instruments for us to use.  Miss Wymer noticed a big improvement in our ability to keep in time with the music and to follow a beat.

This term our topic is "A Class Party".  This relates to the future focus of Enterprise.  We will be looking at ways to make money and to plan and budget for a party.  Hopefully, if we can plan and budget correctly we will have a class party towards the end of the term.

In maths we continue to learn about numbers to 100 and addition and subtraction.  We will be learning about money which fits with our topic.

In the DMC this term we will be learning to send emails and to use Kidspiration.  We will also visit a neat wikipage that Miss Weedon has set up for us with links to lots of cool literacy and maths games. 

For the first part of the term we will be getting fit for the school cross country.  We will be developing our fitness and playing games.  The Kelly Sports team will be back this term to help us with this.  We continue to work on improving our fundamental skills such as skipping, hopping, sidestepping, galloping.  Jen from Project Energize will be back to test us at the end of the term.

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