We are learners!
Swimming, raking soil, planting,  watering, writing poems, dancing, singing, underwater art, recycling.
We are visiting Annaliese Haven on Wednesday to sing and dance.
Hope you can come to our Junior Show on Thursday at 1-15pm, a gold coin donation would be appreciated.

What an exciting afternoon we had yesterday!. Jamie won a new bike, a helmet, a safety pack and a T-shirt. We all went to the netball courts and watched the Mayor of Waimakariri  give lots of children new bikes. Other children came from different schools.
Swimming has started and we are going to bring our togs everyday so we can improve our swimming skills.

We are SO excited! A trailer load of healthy soil has arrived for our garden in the planter box!
We can plant some of our seeds that have grown in our classroom.
If you have any cuttings of small flowers we would love to have them to grow with our veges.
Our garden is going to be great with lots of color and veges to eat.

We are all going to try and remember to bring a grocery item for the P.T.A. Christmas Raffle.
Remember the  Junior Athletics are on Thursday. Bring you lunch and enjoy picnic.

Today there are 3 Newsletters to read. We are making a big effort to remember to wear our sun hats everyday, bring a drink bottle of water and have a piece of fruit to eat for morning tea and for lunch. We have been learning about 5+a day and it would be great if everyone had at least 2 pieces of fruit or vegetable everyday.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone at our Junior Sports next Thursday.

It's great to be back at K.B.S. and catch up with all our friends.
The weather is warmer and we need our drink-bottles and sun-hats everyday. Sun-hats are best left in desks for all of Term 4. KBS hats are preferred as  they are part of our school uniform.
The seeds we planted have sprouted and soon we will be able to plant them in the garden.
We are practicing our athletic skills for the Junior Sports on Thursday, 8th November at 1-15pm. A reminder will be sent home closer to the day.
At Jump-Jam today we learnt a new dance called "Crocodile Snap".  We need more practice to learn all the moves.
Our published books are all finished. Have a read when you next visit Studio 2. We are very proud of our efforts.

The last week of the term has arrived very quickly. On Tuesday Jed and Chris from Sport Canterbury came to show us some cricket skills. We learnt how to throw the ball and catch by making a basket with our hands. We had to say "Basket, close it and chest" so we wouldn't drop it. We had turns hitting the ball with the bat and we learnt to have the bat  on the flat side. They taught us some games like snowball and ball basket.
At Art class we finished our Spring paintings and they look fabulous.
Yesterday and today we worked on our calendars and have them finished. They are ready to be laminated and will be for sale next term.
We performed our song and played musical instruments at Whanau Time. We thought we made a brilliant effort and everyone clapped. Jamie and Kaylee did a fantastic job as our announcers.

This week we have been writing CHAPTER STORIES1
We wrote about a sad chimp and we used our GREEN HAT and our imagination for ideas.
Our stories are super.
Next we have to illustrate our stories and make covers for them.
We are really glad that we can keep coming to KBS because there are happy kids here and we get to learn more each day. KBS is a great place to learn!

Today we did some planting - Phelix
We put our names on the pottles so we would know who  they belong to. Alfie
Next we used a spoon to put soil in our potholes. Isaac
The seeds had to be put in carefully up the right way.
Then we had to cover the seed with more soil. Steph
All the pottles were put in ice-cream containers and put on the table in the sun. Libby
Now all we have to do is wait until our courgettes grow and we can eat them, Yum, yum.

Here are the "happenings this week!

Singing Twinkle Twinkle Vegemite with Noah playing on the keyboard.

Making blossom trees and learning facts about Seasons and Spring,
Making paper daffodils - they really make our room look like Spring!
We wrote stories about Spring.

Today our poem was about a hairdryer. We had to use our Blue and Green Hats to design a hair dyer. We had to think about color, shape, power cord, on/off buttons, hot and cold buttons. We had a vote for the best design and Jade won!

We think Sophie Pascoe is great to win all those medals at the Olympics and she only has one leg to make her swim the fastest!.

The Patiki Production was awesome. Some of us had a brother or a sister in it. The costumes were great. Some of them were sparkly. Darth Vader was cool! We liked the way the dog did his acting.
The singing was really brilliant and the children remembered the words. When we are in Year 3 we hope we can be in a production.
Today is Kase's last day and we wish him the best for his move to Australia. We will miss Kase. He might email us or write a letter and tell us know about his new school.

BEST OF THE WEEK!
Choice reading when we can read magazines, poetry cards, our own stories, big books and library books. We make a list of reading activities then we choose which activity we want. We have a turn at each activity and read with some friends.
Writing stories.
Making a garage with the big blocks.
Making a racing track with obstacles for the cars.
Noah, Phelix and Caleb built a robot with boxes and glue.
Libby and Noah played the keyboard at Shine Time. We sang while they played for us.
Kaylee and Lily made a paper laptop.
We loved having some sunshine today and hope it will be sunny next week.

Yesterday Lesley Ottey from the Community Garden came to visit and help to get us started on our new garden. We need compost, soil, shingle, water and sunshine. When we have enough soil and compost we are going to plant some vegetables and flowers. We are really excited about starting our garden. At Whanau Time tomorrow we are going to tell everyone about our garden.
Today we did a new photo board. We worked with a buddy and wrote captions for lots of new photos. Our board looks really cool. Next time you visit Studio 2 remember to have a look.

Olympic Whanau Time
What a wonderful time we had. It was a great way to celebrate the  Olympics. Here is what we thought.
Amazing!
             Excellent!
                           Brilliant!
                                        Terrific!
                                                   Interesting!
                                                                   Exciting!
                                                                                 Fantastic!
                                                                                                Fabulous
We can't wait to do it all again in 4 years time!

Yesterday it was a wet day so we sang our rainy day songs.
We used pieces of paper and round lids to cut out lots of circles. We called each circle a lemon meringue pie. Jamie said," Folding the circles was a good way to figure out fractions". We had to cut the "pies" into pieces and work out which pieces were half, quarter or eighths. Next we glued the pieces into our books.
The Clouds group read a book about dinosaurs. After reading they pretended they were dinosaurs escaping from the volcano. They presented their stories to the class. Their stories were written on  dinosaur shapes.

Choosing Time in Studio 2!
Alfie, Jamie, Josh, Phelix, Kase, Caleb, and Mitchell made a base where you could keep safe and Alfie was the doctor. "We were using our imagination".
Jacob and Rico made a skyscaper and a tower where people could live. They used blocks.
Issac, Lily, Kaylee and  Nerissa created birthday cards and presents to take home.
Noah designed a new game with Blake.
Jade, Libby and Steph made some colorful bracelets and bookmarks.
A great way to end the week.

We are presenting our animal research for news this week. We do an audience check to make sure everyone is looking at the speaker. Our voices have to be loud and clear. This is what we think about the talks so far.
Kase " We did lots of work on them".
Stephanie, "Some of them are very long because there is lots of information about the animals"
Nerissa," I leant a lot about foxes from Jade's presentation".
Mitchell," I liked Libby's because she gave lots of polar bear facts and information."
We are looking forward to listening and learning about more animals tomorrow.

BEST OF THE WEEK!
Mitchell -  The  show "Antarctic Adventure" by the Court Theatre.
Jade -  Running around with friends in our playground.
Alfie - Coming back to see all my friends at school after being away yesterday.
Caleb - Playing touch and playing with my friends.
Steph - Writing Class.
Libby - Penguin art.
Jamie  - Reading the penguin story.
Kase  - When the pirate got pushed off the boat in the Antarctic Adventure.
Rico -  "Antarctic Adventure"
Phelix - Penguin poem.
Isaac -  Playing with my friends.
Jacob - Being with my friends.
Blake - Coming back and seeing all my friends.
Kaylee - Whanau Time.
Josh - Watching "Antarctic Adventure"
Mrs McKenzie - Reading the wonderful penguin stories. Fabulous thinking and writing!

We watched the Court Theatre perform "The Antarctic Adventure" We saw 3 penguins and 2 scientists. There was a pirate  who caught all the krill so there wasn't any food left. We created some art work, using our Green Thinking Hats. Our icebergs and penguins look great. We wrote penguin stories on penguin paper and Mr Guthrie thought they were brilliant. The stories are going into a book for our Library Corner. You can read them next time you come to Studio 2.

Wednesday 25 July
The Ned Show came to KBS today! What did it tell us about? What did we see?
N - Never give up.
E - Encourage others.
D - Do your best.
We saw awesome tricks with a yo-yo. It made us laugh and clap. We saw trick with a tissue and it turned into a colourful streamer. Jacob from Year 7/8 got a special hat made out of balloons. We learnt a lot about being friends and what a cool school we have.

BEST OF THE WEEK! "Reading the Magic Wand" said Lily. "Doing Spelling Buddies" said Isaac. "Doing the food pryramid" said Stephanie. " Shine Time" said Mitchell. "Going to writing class" said Jade.
" Reading the crocodile poem" said Caleb. "Writing about Winnies Magic Wand" said Rico. "Doing Shine Time" said Noah. "Choice  Reading" said Phelix. "Going to Whanau Time" said Nerissa.
"Going to Jump-Jam" said Kase. "Listening to the Rock Band" said Libby. "Choosing Time" said Alfie. "Going to Whanau Time and singing songs" said Jacob. "Listening to the Rock Band at
Whanau Time" said Kaylee. " Doing Spelling Buddies" said Joshua. "Reading the Crazy Critters Cooking Convention" said Kayvarne.

On Wednesday we worked in groups to write a story about a picture. There were 2 girls playing on the beach and we had to look carefully and find out as much as we could. We had 3 in each group and we worked together, listening and helping each other. The paper was divided into thirds so we each had a space for our sentences. At the end of writing time each group had a turn at presenting their story. It was a great way of working with different people in our studio.

Today we have welcomed our  5 new students to  Studio 2. We are learning to use the "cr" blend. the Cloud group presented their animal activitly. We played follow the leader on the colourful playground. A great day to start Term 3.

Studio 2 is in 4th place in the Junior Studio toothpaste carton competition. We need to keep on bringing cartons to  school as we only have until the last day this term. This afternoon we have been working on our giraffe art. We watched a video showing giraffes in Africa. We cut out brown shapes to glue on. Some of our giraffes look like Harold. At Whanau time we saw the movie of Mr George's Studio  when they were filmed by CTV. You can see it on our KBS Face book.

Today we collected 16 toothpaste boxes because we had Mufti Day. We had a special morning with a visit from the new children who will be part of Studio 2 next Term.  Some of us already know them so they have lots of friends. We showed them around our Studio and played King of the Dice with them. Harold wrote a letter back to us. He wants us to be happy and healthy. There is a BookFair on the days of the Parent Conferences. At Art Class and painted our salt-dough insects. We are using White Hat Thinking to find out about giraffes for our News Teams.
 Another busy and happy day at KBS.

Reflection of the Day.

Today we have been learning about things that float and things that sink. We put water in a big container and then we put some objects in to see if they would sink or float. One thing had an air bubble under it and it floated. One plastic thing could float and sink because of its shape. We have been busy publishing our "Elephant in the KBS Library" stories and had fun at Jump-Jam and Singing. the Coconut dance was our favourite.

Our First Post

Welcome to our blog. We are looking forward to writing and sharing the "happenings" in our Studio.