A celebration of Shakespeare's birthday

We were all so excited when Mrs Regard told us a while back that we were going to be able to dress up as a character from a book to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday. Mrs Regard set the tone .......

and we all followed suit! My class were beautifully turned out and I marvelled at my parent's creativity....

Kiran, Augustine, Kgali and Rachael

Dipika, Lukas, Adenika and Zipho

Carter, Yashav, Veyakhar, Connor and Otsile

But of course we had to have a girls' photo ......

and the boys .......

We all then went and gathered in the hall where we paraded our attires. 

There was much clapping and dancing and eventually the judges chose four children in Grade 2 R as 'best dressed'. They were...

Dipika, Augustine, Keemiya and Adenika

and the winner was 
 Dipika!

We went back to class where we had a last chance to do a whole class photo shoot!



Before we change and 'Wolly Wonka' handed out sweets to a delighted Grade 2 R class!

Thank you Mrs Regard for a special day! Please can we do it again soon!

The actual stories!!

Stories

This week Pim was introduced to a brand new baby BABOON! Therefore I divided my class into 3 troops -each having a strong male baboon as a leader. Josh , Lukas and Augustine made wonderful leaders and taught the rest of their troop how to bark as a warning sign of danger! Loads of fun was had! I awarded beans for individual work and as a group we will count the beans on Monday to see which troop was the eventual winner!

We further explored the world of adjectives and ended the week by producing little stories. Mel and I gave them 6 sets of words : dark, moonlit night : grumpy aardvark: dry, sandy veld: sleepy baboon : tall trees .  We then asked them to choose a partner and write a story using all these words. We we thrilled with the results!

My star of the week: Connor

Connor has worked so well on his sentences this week. He has also tried to work faster while writing them. Well done Connor - you can be very proud.

My Speech Festival Stars

My class were awarded an 'A+' in the recent speech festival for their coral verse : 'A visit to the dentist' Thank you Mrs van Elden for all your hard work!

The serious one ......

                                               ....... the fun one!

Keemiya and Veyakhar can be very proud of their individual 'A' awards for their poems.

Adjectives and nouns

Mel and I have been trying to improve the quality of our children's sentence writing. After some brainstorming we decided to introduce the concept of nouns and adjectives. We have done this by using our novel 'The Aardvark who wasn't sure' which uses delightful phrases such as ' juicy termites' . The children have so enjoyed it and have come up with these sentences!

I was bursting with pride so I thought I would share them.......

Well done  my STAR grade 2's!

Our Termite week!

Pim, the aardvark, met a termite! This led us into a new adventure in our classroom! We turned our classroom into a termite mound! We had soldiers, workers, nymphs and lastly a queen and king termite. The children all learnt what their role was in the colony and how much team work there was in order for the colony to function well. Keemiya embraced the idea so much that she brought 'wings' which she attached to her uniform to fulfil her role as a nymph! She also painted us a beautiful piece of sky which we could see out of the top of our mound! I was so impressed with the amount that they remembered and how many skills I was able to incorporate.

At the end of the week Mel and I decided to put the idea of 'teamwork' into practice by creating one big masterpiece! Each group was responsible for a section. Keemiya and Azraa designed and drew Pim's mother.

Another group consisting of Lukas, Yashav, Otsile, Rachael, Adenika and Augustine designed the termite mound and were responsible for tearing up egg boxes and glueing them on to create the termite mound.

The last group was responsible for making the ants from fingerprints. They glued them into the tunnels of the mound at the end.

I was so impressed with their ability to work together and produce this masterpiece! 

WELL DONE GRADE 2 R!