Facebook - is your child safe on Facebook?

Dear Room 2 parents, 

Is your child using Facebook?  Are they 13?  If not, are you happy that they are breaking the law? Are you their friend on Facebook?  Is their profile private or public?

Here is a great blog post from Allanah King about things parents should consider when their child asks or sets up a Facebook account.

And a video you to think about who you and your children become friends with on Facebook...

For further information about Cyber Safety visit our Cyber Safety page.

Puberty - Health

As part of Health this term we are taking a brief look at puberty.

WALT - recognise the changes in boys and girls during puberty.

Mrs Bradshaw created an assignment on Edmodo using a BBC - Science and Nature website:

Initially there were a few giggles as we felt a bit uncomfortable, but we learnt an awful lot!

Spelling Under Scrutiny - Sounds of Spelling

WALT recognise the sounds of spelling

This term we are working on our spelling.  We are using a wonderful resource called Spelling Under Scrutiny by Joy Allcock.

To help us with our spelling we need to identify the different sounds that different letter combinations make.

Today we looked at the sounds 'or', 'er', 'ow',  and 'oy'
We were really surprised to find out that that the 'or' sound can be made up by 12 different combinations of letters, such as ough, or, aw, ore, ar, augh, our, awe, a al, au, oor.
These sounds can be found in words like: thought, organise, saw, ignore, four, talking, naughty, floor, water, board, awesome, warming, August.

Can you think of any more word that have the sound 'or'?

Book Club

Last term during Technology time, when our class was split in two we started up Book Club.  During this time we ask our buddy 5 of the questions from this list (we can also make up our own questions, as long as we use the Seven Servants), then we share as a class. 

This term we are looking forward to bringing the whole class together for book club and using what we are learning with CSI (Comprehension Strategies Instruction) programme.

These questions can also be used by parents and family member to ask about our reading too. 

WALT - discuss what we have read

What is the title of your book?
Who wrote your book/article/magazine/blog?
How did this book compare to others you have read by the same author? What did you like about this book?
What happened in this book?
Where is your book set?
When is your book set?
How did this book describe a character/problem/point/solution?
Which book do you think you will read next?
What did you infer when reading this book?
What genre/type of book did you read?
What does this book make you want to do or try?
What was the purpose of this book?
What predictions did you make when you started reading this book? What is an interesting fact that you learned?
Describe this book in your own words
What has happened in this book so far?
What would you rate this book out of 5? (1=poor, 5 = awesome!)
What would have made this book better?
What do you predict will happen in the next part of your book?
Which words did you find difficult to find the meaning of?
What did you learn from this book?
Where was this book published?
What connections can you make between your life and the book?
When was this book written?
How many pages are in this book? 

Room 2's holidays

Over the holidays, some of the students from Room 2 set their own Holiday Homework - via Edmodo, to write about what they did in the holidays and add it to their blog.

Here is one example, from Jesse: