MOTAT trip

On Wednesday room 2 went to MOTAT. We got to look at some really awesome things. We learnt a lot about how life was in the past. This helped us to see how technology has changed overtime.

 I like trains. Abraham 

 My favourite thing at MOTAT was the doll. I learnt that old toys are made of wood. Dereon

My favourite thing at MOTAT was the cars. I learnt that old toys were made of wood. Nitika

 Look at the buzzy bee. Mariah 

 My favourite thing at MOTAT was the doll. I learnt that old toys are made of wood. Davlyn

 My favourite part at MOTAT was the motorbikes. I learnt that old toys are made of metal. Te Koha

Calendar art

We were lucky enough to go to the art room! We made some trees using, chalk pastels, pastels and paint. 

 We made a picture. We used paint and crayons- Lio 

 We made the leaves on the trees with jovis and paint. The leaves were dark green, white and gold- Nitika 

 We made a tree. We made the leaves with the paint- Ana 

I like doing art because you learn new things- Lianne 

They look AMAZING and you can buy them and make them into calendars, diaries or cards. 

Peace in the Park

'Rhythm, Rap and Rhyme.... Creating peaceful times' has been the driving statement for our inquiry this term.

To finish off a wonderful term of learning all the students at Tamaki Primary School participated in 'Peace in the Park' to showcase songs we had chosen.

Our whanau brought picnic blankets and we sang to them class by class, had some band items and then had our community farewell for our Principal Ms Hansell.

Here is a video of Room 2 on stage.

Peace in the Park from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Vet Visit

Our pet rabbit Tūpeke is going for a visit to the vets.

We talked about how we will miss him, and the students in Room 2 wanted to know if Tūpeke would be ok with the vets. We talked about what a vets job is, and decided that he would be very safe with them.

Here are some messages we wanted to say to the vets. 

Tupeke's vet visit from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Our School Values

At Tamaki Primary School we have 4 school values

Rangimarie

Tukumarie

Manaakitanga

Whanaungatanga

We wrote a song to help us remember what our values are.

Values at Tamaki Primary

Tune – ‘He’s got the whole world’

At Tamaki Primary we have values x3

At Tamaki Primary

Rangimarie, Peaceful Relationship’s x3

Rangimarie

Tukumarie is tolerance x3

Tukumarie

Manaakitanga means we care x3

Manaakitanga

Whanaungatanga makes a family team x3

Whanaungatanga

At Tamaki Primary we have values x3

At Tamaki Primary

We are also learning what we have to do to be a performer, some ideas we came up with were...

- Being brave

- Practice

- Focus on the audience

- Practice

- Speak clearly

- Practice 
- Stand nicely

Hope filmed us singing our song.
This is our first attempt as a class. After watching it we talked about what we could do to make it better, and we have some things to work on (Like more people playing the ukulele, looking at the camera, having our best voices and smiles....).

You will have to look back to see how we have improved after working on being a performer!  

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Our Values from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Our work on 'ShowMe'

We have been writing stories about Stick man and Gruffalo. Calais and Janaiah have published theirs on 'ShowMe'.

Nitika and Cyrus started their first day of school yesterday, we used our numbers to practice finger control on the iPad.

Elizah did some math questions on his own as a followup to his groups lesson.