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**Welcome to Room 2B's wiki.** ** We are a class of 21 Year One students plus Mrs Dean. **

**What's the time, 2B?** media type="custom" key="9838895" Parents...The children have had a lot of fun making musical Christmas cards which can be seen on the Ho! Ho! Ho! page of the wiki. If you would like a copy of your child's card, leave your email address with me and I will send one to you. ris
 * 4/10e **
 * The second person from our room to have lunch with Mr Jenkin was Brooklyn. He and 14 other junior students munched on pizza today. Brooklyn saod it was nice and comfortable in Mr Jenkin's office. **

Congratulations to all the cross country runners and extra congratulations to those who received certificates. 

We are fortunate in having a student teacher, Miss Natalie Fels, in our room. She will be with us until November 4th.


 * Emma was the official photographer on Friday 9/9. She focused on food as you will see in her slideshow on the Out and About page. **

Questions about birds - What are the biggest and smallest birds in the world and the biggest and smallest New Zealand native birds? Bring your answers to school.

Two new pages have been added - Out and About with... and Birds.


 * Friday is dress in black day when we celebrate the opening of the Rugby World Cup. Remember to wear your black clothing that day. **


 * You may have noticed a new page Hedgehogs, Hedgehogs, Hedgehogs. This is the work of the Wasps reading group who are currently working with Mrs Warburton. Over the next few weeks they will be adding to the page all the things they know about hedgehogs. Stay tuned! **

A big thank you to Kerrie Hunt for putting our Beside the Seaside dance on Youtube. If you go to the Move and Groove page on this wiki, you will be able to watch the 2B stars in action.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">17 August **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">Congratulations to Panchasut who received a certificate at today's school assembly for great progress in written language. **

**At last we have some photos up of our Move and Groove dance. Go to the Move and Groove page to see our slideshow**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Lunch with Mr Jenkin <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Wei Bin had a special lunch today in Mr Jenkin's office. Here is Wei Bin waiting to be served by Mr Jenkin. Wei Bin said, "I had pizza and I got a pencil. I was happy."

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<span style="color: #2d00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">For the next few weeks of term 2, we will be busy practising our dance for the Move and Groove show which will be held in week 11. The children are dancing to the song 'I do Like to be Beside the Seaside'. <span style="color: #2d00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">I am in the process of sorting out costume requirements and will send a note home regarding this in week 9.


 * Rippa Rugby **

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 * Rippa Rugby has lots of games. The tag gets ripped and we say rip then pass the ball to a person in your team. When everyone has had a turn you pass it to the other team. **
 * Emma **

<span style="color: #de1212; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 210%;">Wakaaranga Creek Visit <span style="color: #de1212; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 210%;">Sight, hearing, touch, taste and smelling - we used all our senses when we went exploring the Wakaaranga Creek area. <span style="color: #de1212; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 210%;">You can see some of what we experienced in the slideshow below.

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 * All the little mini beasts were decked out in their **


 * finery for the Ugly Bug Ball!**

**Giant wetas, beautiful butterflies, furry spiders, creepy crocodiles and cute baby animals were some of the things we saw at Butterfly Creek today. It was such a wonderful day and we all enjoyed ourselves. The train ride was great fun, too. Have a look at the slideshow below to see some of the sights at Butterfly Creek.**

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We have begun our new Landscape Learning topic "Mini Beasts" and are looking forward to our visit to Butterfly Creek on March 16.

<span style="color: #0055ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">On Friday, we had a special lesson with Mrs Warburton where we searched for mini beasts. We went to the compost heap and Emma, Komail, Sam and Annie dug up some compost. We took it back to Area 7 and the exploring began. <span style="color: #0055ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">There were lots of little mini beasts which we examined using magnifying glasses. Kyle was the day's official photographer and his work can be seen in the video on the Mini Beasts page.


 * On Thursday, two monarch butterflies emerged from their chrysalises and fluttered around the classroom. **
 * Before they were released outside, Kane took several photographs of them. **
 * You can see them on the Mini Beasts page. **


 * Family Picnic - to be held on Friday, 11 March at 5:30pm. **

There was a great response to the red and black mufti day. $2279.30 was raised for the Christchurch Earthquake relief fund.


 * Our first topics for term 1 are all about ourselves, our families, healthy food and keeping safe in the playground (Phys. Ed). **
 * Some of us have recorded our thoughts on how to keep safe while playing. Go to the Keeping Safe page to hear our comments. **


 * On the same page is a slideshow of us following the safety rules. A big thank you to Freya, Jason and Komail for taking the photos. Photographers extraordinaire! **