Visit the virtual classroom!

Kia ora Team 2 students  - you were so amazingly brave and calm on Monday. We are thinking of you all and hoping school can reopen next week. We also hope that you are keeping safe in these tough times.

Here is a cool Maths site to visit with lots of interactive games to help with multiplication. Have fun!
www.multiplication.com

Remember if you are registered for Mathletics to keep using it! There are great links to other maths websites on Mathletics too.

A good website for spelling is www.spellingcity.com  It has lots of interactive activities for spelling.

Keep up with your reading! Hopefully you have a good book at home. Christchurch South Library is open and it is a great place to visit. It also has lots of cool interactive stuff to do and a cafe for your parents! The newspaper at the moment has excellent photos and articles on the earthquake. You could make a scrapbook to share at school  - remember to put the date on anything that goes into the scrapbook.

Here are a couple of great websites connected with our mammal topic:
http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/mammals.htm
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/

Writing: think about doing a photo essay on what is happening in your community or home or around the city. Use a digital camera to take photos and organise them logically, creating captions and information to go with them. You could put this into a power point that we can share at school or into a booklet or poster.

There are also RED Challenges you can do: artwork, design your own, helping others, cooking meals, simple experiments etc 

Keep an eye on our blog site for new updates.
Kia kaha. Stay strong. We are looking forward to seeing you soon.
Ms Thomas, Miss Murphy, Mr Paxie, Miss Mauchline

Winter Sport starts this Friday!

Parents: Thank you if you have offered to help with winter sport. We have accepted all offers and parent helpers will receive a letter on Monday giving details. Check your child's bag! We have a real shortage of help for netball. Do give some thought to helping to run some ball-handling skills with the girls. We have 44 players and only 2 courts so we need to run a rotation on and off the courts. You don't need to be a referee! Let Susie Murphy or Sandy Thomas know if you can help with netball, rugby, soccer, hockey or basketball. It is just for an hour Friday afternoons 1.45-2.45pm.

Transport: None needed. We will walk the children to Redcliffs Park for soccer and McCormacks Bay Reserve for rugby. All other sports will be played at school.

Students: Make sure you have the correct gear at school on Friday. Wear the Redcliffs sports uniform if you have it. Bring all gear no matter what the weather looks like. We will decide before interval if we need to cancel.
Netball - at school - suitable footwear
Hockey - at school - suitable footwear, mouthguards, shin-pads
Basketball - at school - suitable footwear
Soccer (football)  - at Redcliffs Park - shin-pads, boots if you have them (otherwise suitable footwear)
Rugby - at McCormacks Bay reserve - mouthguards, boots

Home Learning Rewards Day

How to take part? Complete 5 RED Challenges by the end of Week 10. Even if you haven't started yet you could do 1 challenge per week from now on and still make it!

Welcome

Welcome to the new Team 2 blog. We are learning how to use it and will gradually add more to it as we become more knowledgeable. We will initially use it to send updates on what is happening in Team 2. We hope it will become more and more interactive as students and teachers use it regularly.

A recent trip to Orana Park saw Team 2 feeding a very cooperative giraffe!

Coincidentally we will be visiting Harold the giraffe in the Life Ed mobile caravan next week to revisit our Healthy eating module from Term 1