Tuakana Teina time with room 5

This week we had buddy time in the library. Our buddies from room 5 helped us to read and decorate a poem about a robot. Here are some photos of the work we did with our buddy 

                                                   

Sosaia and October buddy time

We are good at ART!!!

We are really good at art in Room 2.

Today we had Mrs Manuyag come and teach us how to smudge when using pastels.

We did SUCH good work because we listened well and we didn't rush our work.

Baseball - with Room 1 and Room 2

This term for Kiwisport we are learning how to play Baseball.

We are learning how to stretch, throw, catch and strike a ball.

Running as a team to warm up

We are good at running

Stretching our body

Sosaia is good at cathcing

We all practiced together

Wesley is happy with what he is learning

Davlyn practicing his catching

We had a competition to see how accurate we could throw

Our coach was our target

We tried our best!

Terell was the most accurate at throwing and won a pair of sun glasses!!!
Well done Terell!!

WALT take a screen shot

We have been learning how to use the technology in our class.

We now know how to take a screen shot on the iPad.

We can use a screen shot to show our learning, capture our writing and record progress in a game.  

All of the photos below are screen shots the students took. 

Independent math time

During independent math time, the Blue Squares and Green Rectangles were both in the iPads practicing adding numbers together using their fingers... Mrs Vercoe was watching them do their maths and was so impressed she took some short videos!

Below is a video showing the students doing their maths.... and if you look carefully you'll see one student adding in their head!

Math time from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Duffy Theatre!

 We were lucky enough to start the year with the Duffy Theatre team come and visit us with this years theatre show

'Duffy King of Books'.

 

Sosaia from Room 2 used an iPad to take some videos of the show. 

Below are some highlights (but nothing to give the show away!) 

Duffy Theatre from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Thank You Duffy for another wonderful show to help us learn more about the importance of reading!

We like MUSIC

In Room 2 we absolutely love going to the music room to learn how to play the ukulele's and bucket drums.

Mrs Vercoe loves how well we listen there and how well we follow instructions (even when she doesn't use her voice!!).

Have a look at what we've been doing!

Ukulele intro from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Bucket Drums from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

We are learning to throw and catch a small ball

We are about to start learning Baseball in our Kiwisport time, so for PE this week we started to practice our throwing and catching skills.

We had lots of smiles and laughs as we tried throwing and catching the balls different ways, and we even saw if we could hit a target at distance.... Mrs Vercoe!

Our wonderful photographers were Sosaia and Dziah.

Leon-Lebron

Carla made a wonderful catch!

Lopiseni working very hard

Well done Michael!

Terell has lots of concentration

Great work Havea!

Throwing and catching in action

3...2...1.... try hit the target!!!

We even tried throwing and catching on our back. Well done boys!