Year 2 (R7) | Hebron Christian College

The Class:
Room 7 is our Year 2 class at Hebron Christian College. It is made up of 25 students: 12 girls and 13 boys with ages ranging from 5yrs to 7yrs. There are several nationalities including European, Korean, Chinese, Samoan, Tongan, and Indian. There is a wide range of sporting ability in the class and some children are very musically talented. Room 7 also has some very artistic and creative students as the Artwork displayed in the corridor outside our classroom will testify.

Term 3 Theme

- God is Faithful
Our theme for Term 3 is 'God is Faithful - He wants us to be faithful. Throughout all of time God has proven Himself to be faithful. His Word tells us that He will never leave or forsake us. He hears us when we call; He catches us when we fall. He is able to do exceedingly and abundantly beyond all that we ask or think. What an awesome GOD.

Book Week and the Character Parade

In Week 5 Hebron held its Book Week. We had visiting authors come to our Assembly and into our classrooms to talk about how they find inspiration to write their books. Some of the Secondary students also came and presented items in our classrooms based on different well read books. On Friday the children formed groups and took part in a Literacy type of tabloid sports run by the Year 13s. The activities were much loved and enjoyed by all the children.
However, the highlight of the week was the character parade held on Tuesday afternoon where the children got the chance to dress up as their favourite book characters and parade around the school then walk across to the Everill Orr Village to parade around for the elderly residents there. The children of Room 7 were beautifully turned out and if you click on the link below you can see just how fine they looked.

Click here to view Room 7's Character Parade

Rising to the Cell Phone Challenge.

As we go into Term 3 we in Room 7 have collected 68 cell phones.We are really keen on the idea of Hebron winning an Active Board that everyone will benefit from using. Room 7 is still leading the competition in both the Junior and Middles Schools. The competition is continuing until the end of the year so we are still keen to collect more old cell phones. We only need 230 more and the Active Board is ours. So, if you know somebody out there who has 50 or 60 old cell phones that they don't want and are willing to pass them onto Room 7 then we would be able to be the overall winners and receive a really good prize. Way to go, Room 7. An excellent effort on your part.

We now have two photos showing Mr Breetvelt receiving some of the many cell phones Room 7 has collected so far.

Term 3:TOPIC

Fins and Feathers!!
We are focusing on 'Fins and Feathers' this term for Topic. Isn't it amazing how God much such interesting creatures- no two species are exactly alike. Some birds fly; some don't. The shape of a bird's beak will tell you alot about the type of food it eats. Some birds build nests in trres. Some make their nests on the ground. Some birds will even lay their eggs in another bird's nest. As for fish. Well, there is just so much we have to learn! AND we will be doing just that this term.

ART: Learning to draw fish

The children have been learning to draw fish. They learn how to draw their fish by following as I lead them through a 'step by step' process on the whiteboard. Below are two examples of fish modelled on the whiteboard.

The children follow the step by step process then colour in their fish. As you can see by the results their fish are beautiful. The fish on the left was drawn by Jacqueline; the fish to the right is Joyce's masterpiece and the rainbow coloured fish at the bottom was drawn by Veronika.

Following 'Fins and Feathers' the children are going to learn all about the greatest rugby team the world has ever known; the All Blacks. More about that later. Then we will be having a little look at our brains and how they function. Have you ever asked yourself just why your brain is so important? By the end of our unit every single child in Rm 7 will be able to tell anybody who asks the answer to that question.

Pet Day
Students from Room 7 won 3 awards at the Junior Pet Day held in Week 8.

Here is a photo of our 2 judges; Mrs Hayes and Mrs Laughland. If you want to see more photos of the children with their pets.
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Christmas Child
On Friday of Week 8 all the Hebron students brought along their shoe boxes. They had been filled with small gifts of toys and clothing for the children in Cambodia.
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Gymnastics
This term Room 11 have incresed their skills by attending gymnastics classes at the Waitakere Gym Club. All students had a great time and found they had a lot more confidence and skill. To see photos and a blog Click Here

More beautiful ART
If you care to walk the corridor outside Room 7 you will be able to delight in the beautiful artwork displayed there. The children work very hard to produce quality art work. This term we are drawing 'koru' as well as fish and birds alongside our Topic unit.

Below you can see the 'Tree of Peace' which is on the wall outside Room 7.

Click here to view more of Room 7's Artwork 2011.

SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM TERMs 1 and 2:
Life Education for Room 7.

In Term 2 The Life Education mobile classroom came to Hebron. Room 7 learned all about being V.I.Ps - very important people. They also learned about their bodies and where certain organs are in their bodies. They learned that the heart is the largest muscle and that it pumps blood all around their bodies. They also learned the importance of having lots of exercise, eating the right food to give them energy and about how they breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. They got to meet Harold a giraffe puppet who is a V.I.G. or a very important giraffe and Tam who is a life size plastic see through female torso which displays all the organs of the body.

Here are some comments from three of our Room 7 students regarding their visit to the Life Education mobile classroom and what they learned there.

Today we went to life Education Trust. We learned about our body. We got to see Harold. I know where my heart is.

My lungs help breath in Oxygen. You breathe out Carbon dioxide.

From Jordan

We went to life Education trust I saw Tam made of plastic who looks like human being. I learned that you breathe Oxygen. You breathe out Carbon dioxide.

We also saw a giraffe that is 6 years old.

REI

Today we went to Life Education. We now know about our body. We breathe Oxygen and breathe out Carbon dioxide. We saw Harold the v.i.g.. The v.i.g. stands for very important giraffe.

SUHYUN KIM

Mother's Day
The children have all been very busy making Mother's Day cards and hearts and writing Mother's Day accrostic poems. There are some very special women going to receive these tokens of their children's love and affection this Sunday.

Here is Keziah, Suhyun, Rei and Jordan with their cards and poems.

We even CELEBRATE birthdays in Room 7.

In Room 7 we like to think of ourselves as a family so therefore when one of us has a birthday then we really like to celebrate the occasion with them. Jacqueline had her birthday on Wednesday June 8th and she brought along a beautiful chocolate cake from the Cheesecake Shop to share with the whole class. It was so yummy.

Here is a photo of Jacqueline with a few of her classmates and that beautiful chocolate cake.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM TERM 1: Lane Smith
In Term 1 we were privileged to have Mr Lane Smith in our class. Lane has completed his studies and is now a REAL teacher. He is back home in Ohio and plans to find a job closer to home than NZ is so unfortunately he will not be returning any time soon.

Mr Conway, Katies dad, came in on Mr Smith's last day to take some photos of the children having their final P.E. lesson with him.

Mr Smith doing his 'thing'.
If you click on the links below you will be able to view a PowerPoint of Mr Smith's time in Room 7 in Term 1 and also a short video of the children in Room 7 offering Mr Smith their congratulations on his recent graduation. Mr Smith is now a REAL teacher. We are so proud of him.
Click here for 'Mr Smith in Room 7 2011' PowerPoint Presentation
Click here for 'Congratulations Mr Smith' video

READING:The children in Room 7 really enjoy putting on performances.

Here is a picture of Jordan, our caterpillar pretending to be the most ferocious of animals who can trample elephants.

Here is the cast of our award winning play taking a bow before a very appreciative audience.
Junior School Athletics.
In Term 1 the Junior School held their annual Athletics event. Here are some photos showing some of the Room 7 children in action.

Veronika, Emilia and Jacqueline sprinting for the Finish line.

Our first photo shows Daniel T about to run the race of his life in the House Relays.Our other photo shows Ruby and Sophie bagging it out in the sack race.

Junior School Swimming Sports.

Term 1 also saw the Junior School holding their Swimming Sports at Nan's Pool in Mt Roskill. Some pictures of some more Room 7 children in action.

Isaiah hits the water for the noodle race.

Our first photo shows the wonderful Mrs Tomlinson assisting Emilia in the water. Our second picture is of Daniel, Samuel and Timothy patiently awaiting their event.

The wonderful children of Room 7 working in peace and harmony with each other.