Vongai's shopkeeper day

Vongai bounced into school on Friday with all her things ready to sell in beautiful pink baskets! All her 'goodies' were marked and just before second break she opened her shop. She managed the change very well. There are still a few things left over so she will open her doors again on Monday! Thank you Vongai.

Buongiorno Italy

Mel and I decided to introduce the children to Italy by using one of Italians most favourite foods ......... spaghetti! So with passports in hand each child had to 'enter' Italy by sucking up a spaghetti 'worm'. There was lots of hilarity but eventually we all 'arrive' safely into ITALY !

Shriya,over the weekend, thinking that we may be going to Italy brought some Foccacia for Show and Tell. She showed us all exactly how to make it......

Thank you, Shriya ...... you were right, we are in Italy!

After that we went straight to MILAN .... the fashion city of the world!

After a short introduction to some fashion designers Mel and told the children that they were going to be fashion designers for the day! They were each given a paper cut out doll with two outfits that they had to design. Oh my word what excitement ...... 

The boys' outfits

The girls' outfits

During the week Mel and I gave them an Atlas to look at. We found various countries that were in the World Cup and looked at where Italy was in relation to South Africa. They loved it and it was hard to tear them away..... so much so that Mel and I decided that we need to do more Atlas work with them! Watch this space!

On Friday after a short Prezi on the various tourist attractions found in Italy, we divided the class into groups of 3. Each group was given a map of Italy as well as some pictures of each tourist attraction that we had discussed. They had to choose 6 tourist attractions, locate where you would find them and write a sentence about each one. This was to be presented in a poster form. 

 Some groups found it more difficult than others to decide who was responsible for what and some needed a lot more guidance than others but at the end they all made posters that I was so proud of....

Well done Grade 2's

Sejal's Shopkeeper

Not only did we have soccer on Friday but we also had Sejal's Shopkeeper day!

She had lots to sell and was a wonderful shopkeeper. She gave change easily and there was no queue waiting for change! She even opened today to sell the tail end of her stock. Well done Sejal!

World Cup Fever

The world is abuzz with Soccer World Cup Fever and we in Grade 2R are no different! Mel and I organised a World Cup Assembly last week and all the Grades drew a country which was theirs to support for the duration of the World Cup! And we got ........     

PORTUGAL

GHANA

and....................IRAN

The children have been avidly watching at home and every morning I get an update! It really has been exciting especially when we saw Spain eliminated! 

Mel and I realized that the children had no idea of how a knockout tournament worked so we set out to rectify the situation!  We divide the children into groups of 4. Having done this they played a 'Beetle' type game - instead we made them draw a 'soccer man'!  Great fun was had by all with the girls team beating the boys team in the final!

We then decided to hold a soccer knockout tournament on Friday with Grade1's, 2's and 3's all participating in mixed teams!

all ready waiting to start

 A wonderful goalie

Great supporters

Action

Even the girls got involved

Great save Connor!

Finals :  Denmark vs.......

Croatia

And the winners held their trophy high! Well done Denmark!

Now we wait to see who wins on Thurs ........Portugal vs Ghana

Maths Beach Day

We are introducing multiplication to our wonderful little children so Mel and I  decided to take our classes down to the beach where we could we could explain this concept in a big space with lots of sand to manipulate!

It was a perfect winter's day which made everything so much more enjoyable. We let the children have free play to start with ......

We had split them into groups before we left so they all organised themselves for the morning.

To introduce the concept the children had to get into groups after we called out a number. From there we made the children do various sums using sand balls!

After completing multiplication sums, we moved onto a capacity relay. They had to use a sponge to fill a 200 ml ceres juice container, then use the juice bottle to fill a 500 ml water bottle, the water bottle to fill  a 1 litre milk container and lastly use the milk container to fill a 5 l container. at each stage they had to 'clock' in and tell us how many of each container filled the next one! Loads of children were sent back to start again as they had not measured carefully enough!

We then let the children have lunch and a beautiful dip in the sea!

A worthwhile morning learning outdoors!