Term 2 week 2

Reading: This week's Availl was about the relationships in Hugo, a steampunk movie based on the story of a buy that lives in a train station. We only focused on relationships so that we would be able to add more detail and learn about all the complex relationships in this movie.

Writing: This week we finished our 'bug stories', and gave them to the children at Papakura West Kindergarten. There were smiles all around and we kept them waiting for the next page. My kid was named Ella and she was shy at first, but eventually, she came out of her shell and started chattering in an unintelligible way. I had put some interactive bits in my story including a colour in the rainbow, and a spot the wasp. They were really enjoying my story and I loved reading to them. Their attention span was short but it was reasonably easy because I got them to talk about the pictures.

We also wrote a few more poems, one of them being based on a line from 'The Raven', a poem by Edgar Allen Poe.

Maths: During the course of these five days, we've learned about basic converting of fractions and the three types of fractions. This includes proper fractions: 2/5, Improper fractions:75/5, and mixed numbers: 4 5/7

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