Welcome to our 2010 blog for our Room 2, Year 2 class of children at Botany Downs Primary School in Auckland, New Zealand. We hope you enjoy looking at the work we do this year.
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Monday, August 9, 2010

Our Homework Question



What is your favourite TV programme?
If you are 5 or 6 or 7 years old open the comments box and leave an answer to the question.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Our Maui and the Sun stories


Maui and the Sun
The sun was too fast. Maui said to his brothers, “The sun is too fast. We should make the sun go slow.” But the brothers said, “The sun will burn us.” Maui said, “We can build a wall of rocks so we won’t get burnt.” So they made flax rope. Then they hunted for the sun. When they got hot they knew they were at the sun. Maui said, “When you see the sun, catch the sun and don’t let go, so I can stop the sun.” When the sun came up, Maui said, “Throw your rope and hold it tight.” Maui hit the sun and the sun said, “Don’t kill me.” Then Maui said, “I will not kill you, but I will make you go more slowly.” So the sun went slow and Maui and his brothers were happy. PC

Maui and the sun
The sun went too fast. So Maui and his brothers got an idea. There were short days and long nights. So Maui and his brothers made some flax ropes. Then, when the sun rose up, Maui and his brothers attacked, and Maui hit the sun. Then, after Maui and his brothers hit the sun, Maui’s brothers said, “We can leave the sun now.” Then they left the sun and the sun was really slow. Then Maui and his brothers were really happy because the brothers got to do some work.
AR

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Our "Digikids"

We have made some of our classmates "digikids". They are good at doing things on the computer and mimio and can help other children when they don't know what to do. We have two "digikids" each day and they have tasks to do. They also wear badges so we know who we can go to for help.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Space Story

One day when the rocket was flying it broke down. They landed on Venus. They thought they would find something and they looked and looked and looked but they did not find anything. So they looked again, but they still did not find anything. They looked for an hour.
Along came an alien. He asked, “What is the problem?”
“We broke down.”
“You can use mine.”
“What about you?”
“I have a spare one.” They all felt happy. Sometime they visit each other.
KM

The Stuck Duck

Once upon a time there was a duck. She went for a swim in the pond but it was too muddy and she got stuck. No one came. She waited two days. At last the pig came. “Are you stuck?” asked the pig. “Yes,” said the duck. The pig called the cat and the cat could not pull the stuck duck out. So the cat called the cow, but the cow could not pull the stuck duck out. The cow called the horse and the horse pulled the duck out. The horse felt good because he pulled the duck out.
KM

Making our Alien Pictures



Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Aliens and the Underpants




One day the Aliens were coming to Earth to steal some underpants to make big underpants for their statue to celebrate underpants world. The Aliens like underpants. It is funny. The Aliens went inside the home and looked and looked in the drawer and they found some underpants. When the people woke up they were surprised and angry. The Aliens went to their spaceship and went home to bed.



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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Queen's Baton visits Botany Downs School








Today there was great excitement at our school when the Commonwealth Games baton arrived from Howick Primary school as part of the relay around the commonwealth countries. We made flags to wave to welcome our visitors and the baton. We thought the baton looked really beautiful with the red, white and blue colours shining. We learnt that the Queen had written a message and it was inside the baton. The message will be read out at the commonwealth Games in India, in October. Some of our Year 5 and 6 children ran in the relay to take the baton to another school.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

The Year 2 children learning a Heart Jam dance



We are learning a special dance to improve our fitness. Later this term the whole school will be dancing this Heart Jam dance to raise funds for heart research. Heart Jam is lots of fun. It is like Jump jam and we all love doing that. We are trying to learn the dance by watching a DVD that is being shown on the big screen in the hall.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

We are making flags for ANZAC day


We have been learning about ANZAC day. We have been reading some stories to learn about the First world war. Today we read the Bantam and the Soldier written by Jennifer Beck. It is about a New Zealand soldier in the war, who looked after a bantam he called Bertha. We have made some New Zealand flags to show you.