Christmas Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWq60oyrHVQ&feature=player_embedded

Working Hard

St. Joseph's Movie

This is a movie the Year 4's created. We created it to promote St. Joe's.

Amazing!!

Thomas singing "Irish Call"

Room 2 (particually Thomas and Eimear) are wishing Ireland good luck for the Rugby World Cup, we support the All Blacks but we really hope Ireland continue to do well!!

And we hope Thomas and Eimear and their families have fun in Dunedin this weekend watching Ireland play Italy!!

GO IRELAND!!

A wee life lesson to remember...

Weekly Report

Room 2’s report.

This week we have been doing athletics and we

had the real thing on Wednesday.

 At athletics we did sprints, discus, long-distance,

shotput and long-jump.

There was lots and lots of parents

watching us do our athletics.

We had to practice lots before the real. day.

On Thursday our legs were hurting so bad.

On that Thursday we had to do

high-jump with Jenny.

It was really tiring.

We had a really fun time at

 our athletics day and

 hope you guys had a fun time watching.

By Amber Kennedy and Faith Scott.

Weekly Report

Kia-Ora

Last week we started getting rugby tokens from our teacher, Miss Langley. This is how you do it. If you want to vote for a team in the World Cup then you give the token to the teacher then you would put a vote on for that country. If your country wins then you get your token back. At the end of the rugby world cup we will see who has the most tokens. - Miss. Langley here...The whole is idea is to practice probability in maths with the children, what team is most probable to win!! :-)

This week we are learning to do athletics the 8 year olds are doing well, first they are doing spirints then we are doing long jump. We are doing it next Wednesday.

This next two weeks we are doing soft ball and we are learning to throw and catch the ball.

Thank you for listening to our story!

By Natsaha and Emillea

Famous Room 2 Kids!!

We made it into the Ashburton Newspaper early this week! We did a 10 minute read on Thursday at 1.30 to celebrate the fact that we could all read! Heaps of other kids around New Zealand did this too!
Thank you to Mrs. Gray who sent us this link so we could see oursleves hot off the press!!

Have a look -
http://www.ashburtononline.co.nz/site/local-news/local-news/read-focus-promotes-literacy.html

Lee Stream School

ATTENTION ROOM 2-
This is the story that was on TV One News about Lee Stream Schools snow days!! Have a look and think about how it is different to our school!!
Also look how cool their school looks covered in snow!!
Lucky children :-)

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/snow-school-1-46-video-4400296

Snow Stories

Weekly Report

On Thursday we did the Jump Rope for Heart which was about skipping and whoever jumped the longest was the winner. Eilish, Hannah, Isabella came in a tie in first place for the junior jump off. That day it was also Grandparents Day and they came to watch the jump off. There was a lot of Grandparents. For the Senior jump off Ebony abd Lily won. It was also mufti day. On Fridat it was snowing, but there was not very much.
By Faith and Jet

Trinity Artwork

Last term we were learning about God in RE. These are our drawings and art of the trinity.

We know that the trinity is God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

We got a circle and we had to create 3 circles that linked together. Then we had to draw a symbol for each part of the trinity. Then in the background we had to draw a picture of something that reminds us of the trinity in our lives.

Have a look at the fabulous work we have done. They are also hanging in our classroom if you would like to come and see them.

Reading Comprehension

Yesterday we learnt about the comprehension skill of synthesizing, this is when you take what you already know and then you go an learn more about it and then in the end you have a lot of information that you can share with others.
We learnt about J.K Rowling, we only knew a little about her, but then we researched and we found out way more.
We made a title page to her autobiography. We hope you like it.

Special Character-For Parents

At St Joseph’s we aim to provide high quality education within a Catholic Special Character.  We would be grateful if you would take the time to go to the following link and complete  the survey - your feedback provides us with valuable information which helps us review and develop our practice.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GTBWZLB

Pete the Cat

This is a story we found that we really enjoy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUubMSfIs-U

Report Writing

We are learning about Report Writing in Room 2.
These are a selection of reports about St. Joseph's.
Enjoy

Weekly Report

Kia Ora   

On Friday 8^th of July most of the class went to the rugby world cup road show it was at Braided Rivers. We dressed up our Celtic uniforms or All Black gear and we held banners saying “Go Celtic the All Blacks of the future’’ and ‘’Go the All Blacks.’’ We even got on TV with Tamaiti from the Breakfast show. 

There were two dress ups one was and kea and a Kiwi.  We got high-fives from both of them and we got a photo taken with both of them to. There were spot prizes too.

By Amber and Tasha

ROOM 2'S FAMOUS KIDS!!

http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/rugby-world-cup-2011-roadshow-ashburton-10-29-video-4291769

Check out this link to see the Room 2 stars on the Breakfast Show!!

www.flickr.com/rugbyworldcup

Check out this link to see the Room 2 stars beside the Rugby World Cup trophy!!

Try this at home :-)

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/aw/wr/article/0,28138,1183990,00.html

Have a go at this quiz and see how much you know about New Zealand!! Some of the questions are really tricky so you better get your thinking hat on!! Good luck :-)

Weekly Report

24/6/11

Kia ora

Last Friday we had half of our class party we had we had chocolate and watched Charlie and the chocolate factory. Next Friday we are making chocolate truffles. In maths we have been doing times tables. We did this 2x8=16 and 8x2=16. Also in maths we have got a times table thing going. We do a test and then we write our score on a piece of paper and if you get 50 you will be in the 50’s club, cool ah. Every Monday and Friday we do Jump Jam. The leaders are Eimear, Hannah, Poppy, Paige, Eilish and Amber our favourite song is Dancing Queen.

By Eimear and Megan

PMP

Every Friday we do PMP. PMP is when we work on things like our hand eye cordination and our foot eye cordination. We also work on our ball skills and fitness. It is so much fun, we get to play lots of games and practice skills we have learnt. Today we played in groups of 3 and each group had a skipping rope. We had to hold the rope tight then one person had to jump over until it became too high, then the game turned into limbo, we had to limbo under the rope until it got too short. Have a look at our pictures.

P.E. with Jenny

Creating our writing rubric

Today in writing we looked at a number of writing samples. We had to find out what made a good piece of writing and why. We worked in pairs, first we read the 3 samples. Then we thought about what one was excellent, what one was okay and what one was poor. We then used our highlighters to show parts that were good and parts that weren't too flash. We then started to create a rubric. We talked about what an excellent piece of writing might look like and what an okay piece of writing might look like and what a poor piece of writing might look like.

Now we are going to add to our rubric when we need to.

We will soon be able to see how we are going and place our own learning on the rubric! It is exciting stuff because we are going to be in charge of our own learning!!

We can't wait to use it, or use the highlighters again!!!

We are learning that if you reverse a times table then the answer will stay the same!!

Look- We went 8x6, Alex and Miss. Langley put out 8 groups and filled each with 6 jellybeans. Then they reversed them and they had 6 groups with 8 jellybeans.

The answer was still the same!!

8x6=48

6x8=48

Children talk about the Holy Spirit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkHHiBLDg9c
Have a look at this You Tube link.
It is our fab children talking about what they have learnt in the Holy Spirit Strand. They were in groups of 5 and they had to interview one another on what they had learnt.
Some are so well done and they speak very clearly, others have learnt that if they are going to speak into a microphone then they must remember to practice hard before they perform!
We all had heaps of fun doing this.

Room 2

We thought that we would show you all what our classroom is looking like at the moment!! We are learning about our place in the world. We have been asked the question "Am I who I am because of where I am?" and we are in the process of answering that at the moment by interviewing other schools.

We are also learning how to do multiplcation and division. We are learning our Times Tables. We have a Times Table comp on at the moment and we are all aiming to be in the 50 club!! We could win a really cool prize if we are in the 50 club the most!! And we can win spot prizes.

We love being in Room 2.

Our St. John's Visit

On Wednesday the 20th June we had a visit from a lady from St. John's. She came to talk to us about what we can do if we see someone who is sore or injured badly.

We learnt that we have to ring 111, we have to speak loud and clearly and tell the person on the line where we are and who we need.

We learnt that there are 2 emergency services, the ambulance, the police and the firefighters.

We know not to ring 111 unless it is an emergency because people who actually need 111 need to be able to ring through.

We got a bag full of goodies and a certificate.

Holy Spirit Artwork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKCXWgiHh_o
Have a look at our awesome Holy Spirit artwork!!

Check this out!!

Crazy Room 2 Kids!!

P.E on Thursday with Jenny