WALT look after our environment.

Room 4 has been thinking about how we can help the environment and animal habitats, especially aquatic animals. We have learned that even if it is far away from the ocean, rubbish can still find its way there. We went out one afternoon and collected as much rubbish as we could find from around our school. We know that if everyone does a little bit to help the environment, we can make a big difference.

WALT create repeating and sequential patterns.

Room 4 have been learning about patterns during maths time. We have found out that there are two different types of patterns, repeating, where the patterns continues the same way, and sequential, where it gets bigger. After learning about these patterns and looking at some examples, we were able to explore patterns through different materials and made our own! It was a lot of fun!

WALT make sea creatures out of Playdoh.

During our Inquiry Day for the topic 'Under the Sea', we had fun making different sea creatures out of Playdoh. It was great to get creative and use our imaginations! I made a lobster.

WALT work with a buddy.

Room 4 has been lucky to have been able to work with our Year 4 buddy class, Room 16. They have been working on their inquiry topic, Volcanoes and wanted to share what they had learnt with us. We had fun making a paper volcano and learning some fun facts along the way!

WALT Explore and act on issues and questions that link our science learning to our daily living.

As a part of our inquiry topic, Under the Sea, Room 4 has been looking at the effects of human activity on aquatic animal habitats. We followed the story of 'Freddy the Fish' who was cut out of sponge and soaked up all of the different pollutants that we added to his home as the story went on. It was interesting for us to see all of the different ways that our actions affected Freddy's habitat. Even though we had fun adding all of the different 'pollutants', it made us feel sad to see how dirty Freddy's water had become.

This led us to think of how we could fix what we had done and decided to try to clean Freddy's water and home. We looked at making a water filter out of sand, gravel and coffee filters. We could definitely see a difference between the polluted and filtered water, but it was nowhere near as crystal clear as it had been before. It showed us that pollution is hard to reverse once it is done.

WALT discuss sea creatures.

Room 4 have been learning about sea creatures for our inquiry topic. We know that penguins have a special oil that keeps their feathers waterproof and dry. We did an experiment to see whether we could make our penguin pictures waterproof in a similar way. We used wax crayons to cover all of the penguin and then sprayed on water. It was exciting to see it roll straight off the penguin instead of soaking into the paper!

This is my penguin!

This is what it looked like when the water rolled off the penguins' feathers!

WALT write a cinquain poem.

Room 4 have been learning how to write cinquain poems. These poems don't rhyme, but have a special number of words per line. We used adjectives, which are describing words and verbs, which are action words.

Success criteria:

- Write the correct number of words per line.

- Use two adjectives.

- Use two verbs.

Winter

Snowy, cold,

Snowing, freezing, sparkling

I like making snowmen

Snow

WALT cut shapes into Halves and Quarters.

In Room 4 we have been learning about simple fractions. We now know how to find a half, a quarter and one whole of a shape. To show our knowledge, we decided to make pretend pizza and cut it into different fractions.

Success Criteria:

- Understand what 'equal parts' mean.

- Know how many equal parts are needed to make halves and quarters.

I cut my pizza into quarters. I could give a piece of pizza to my mum, my dad, my sister and me.

Chinese New Year.

Room 4 celebrated Chinese New Year by making drums. First, we learned about the legend of the monster Nian who came out to terrorise villages at New Year. The people of China learned how to scare the monster away with loud noises and the colour red, like our noisy red drums!

Welcome to Year 2.

Welcome to Year 2!

We are very excited to be in Room 4 this year.