Tuesday 28 May 2013

Out The Front of Room 2's Garden

Room 2 have decided to create a garden out the front of Room 2. We voted for the top three and then got Miss Small to choose the best one. The winning one is a palm garden with shrubs around the edge, three seats around the edge with two palms for shade and an umbrella in the middle for more shade and then turf for the ground. We started planning the other day and are trying to figure out all the prices of our things. We are going to try use as many reused things we can to be environmentally friendly. We are excited for the finishing product.

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Grace S and Grace L Anne Wryill

On Monday, in sign language week a deaf lady called, Anne Wyrill from the New Zealand Deaf organization came in to teach us sign language. We learnt the song “Old MacDonald” and the colours red, blue, white, green, yellow and black. We also learnt love, like, don’t like and the animals pig, dog, cow, sheep, chicken and horse. We learnt the alphabet and the vowels. For the vowels you point to the five fingers on your left hand and you point with your right hand. If you Google Sign language N.Z there will be lots of websites to look at.
By Grace L and Grace S

Monday 20 May 2013

Our Carbon Footprints

We traced our feet onto pieces of paper and drew around them. The theme for our cut out feet was Kiwiana. Here is a picture of one of our footprints. We did footprints because our study for the whole year is “Our Carbon Footprints”. These footprints are now around our classroom to remind us of our study. Room 2.

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Sunday 19 May 2013

jack and Vera's deaf lesson with anne

On Monday 13th of May Anne Wyrill came into room 2. Anne is deaf. She taught us lots of sign language.  She was so nice and she brought a cute dog with her. She told us how to do old McDonald had a farm in sign language, it was cool.
When she came in we could say our names in sign language it is good that we know some sign language. We know lots about sign language. We can sign the alphabet, colours, animals and vowel sounds. Miss J also found a website when she googled: sign lanuguae nz. It was cool to practice with an actual deaf person in the room.


Tayla and Breanne Sign Language with Anne Wyrill

One Monday a deaf lady called Anne Wyrill came to our class to teach us sign language.The high light of our day was when we played the colour game, where she did a colour in sign language and we had to run to that sheet of paper that was red,blue,green,black,white and yellow.She taught us how to do the vowels, the thumb is A next in is E next is I then O and the pinky is U, it was a really cool experience because we learnt how to do sign language.

By Breanne & Tayla

jacob and levi deaf lesson

Anne taught us some colors and the old MacDonald song. She taught us how to do animals in sign language. She gave us a quiz too. We got a sticker and an alphabet sheet  in sign language. Anne had a guide dog which was cute. There is a website about sign language if you want more information type nz sign language on the internet.


By Jacob and  Levi

Sarah and Jaden's deaf lesson with Anne

The other day Room 2 had a deaf lady called Anne come and teach us about sign language. She taught us colours like black and green. She also taught us the vowels. Your thumb is a, the next finger across is e and so on to the other fingers. The best was Old Mc Donald Had a Farm  as sign language. We played a fun game where she laid different colours around the room and then she would make a colour action with her  hand and we would all run to the colour. The last person that got to the colour was out.  
By Jaden and Sarah

Caitlin, Lavonne deaf lesson

On Monday 13th, Anne Wyrill came in to teach us sign language. We learnt the colours, Old Macdonald, the vowels, animals and the alphabet. She also had a dog with her. It was very cute (but a bit naughty)! You do the vowels on your left hand. Your thumb is A, index finger E, middle finger I, the fourth finger O and the pinky finger U. She did this game where she signed and you had to run to the coloured piece of paper that matched the sign.
Caitlin and Lavonne

Adelaide and Leon deaf lesson

On a sunny day room 2 had a deaf lady named Anne Wyrill come into our classroom to teach us NZSL.

We learnt the colors, alphabet and  OLD MCDONALD HAD A FARM. We played a game with colored  paper, it was loads of fun.First Anne would do a color in Sign Language and we would have to run to the color that she did, sadly we didn’t win.
We will now teach you how do the colours. First is blue - you rub your left hand on your right hand going around. Next is green - you slide your right hand up your left arm starting from your hand. Now is red - you rub your index finger down from your mouth to the bottom of your chin. Let’s go for yellow now - you put your thumb and index finger together and twist it just above your ear.

Ask use how. We can show you at home and teach you how to sign your name.
  
I would recommend Anne to teach other people, it was awesome and I can teach my family now that I know more about sign language.

By: Adelaide and Leon



Thursday 9 May 2013

Study tips, visualisation

Hi everyone, I have these great study tips and just sometimes a great idea which I will share. Here is one on visualisation. Miss J

Visualisation

Many studies have proven the power of visualisation.
A Stanford University researcher took the 3 top basketball teams and asked them to throw basketballs from the free throw line. On average players scored 8 out of 10 successful baskets.
The teams then had a different task for the duration of the study.

Team one were asked to go to the courts each day and practice throwing balls into the hoop from the free throw line.
Team two were told not to go to the courts and not to practice.

Team three’s requirement for the study was to go to the courts each day and sit on the benches and visualise throwing balls into the hoop.

At the end of the study when players were asked to shoot 10 baskets - tea one averaged 8 out of 10, team two averaged  8 out of 10 and team three scored ten out of ten! Why? One reason is that each time they practised they were successful. That is every time they visualised practising they got the ball in. A 100% Success rate.

As part of your study see yourself sitting in the exam with lots of confience and relaxed. Image being in the exam an the answers flowing out the end of your pen. Imagine that you have already passed. What does it feel like? What would you say to yourself?