Why do we read?

Our inquiry this term is Reading for Pleasure and Writing for leisure. Our friend Susie did not want to learn to read so we decided to make posters to convince her why she should learn how to read.

Reading makes you happy - Mohokoi and Punua

Reading makes us smart - Chance, Nifa, Opeti

I like to read the Duffy Books - Allegra and Moana

Reading is fun - Rakel and Xyrus

You can be a good reader - Jorjah and Lusia

I like to read the big book - Lynch and Htoo Say Wah

It is good to learn - Selu and Kelly

Reading makes us happy - Pauliasi

Susie is convinced!!

Our beautiful posters

KiwiCan Celebration

There was a KiwiCan celebration today. There were lots of cool games and competitions and some basketball players came as well as Kandoo the Kiwi! Some Room 2 students won some prizes too!

Room 2 prize winners:

Chance

Moana

Pauliasi

Pauliasi also got a hug from Kandoo!

New Bike Track

Room 2 have been enjoying the new skills track

Waiting nicely!

Look at us go!

Anzac Day

We have been learning a poem for ANZAC Day and learning about what ANZAC Day is about.

Our buddy class also helped us make poppies to present at our school ANZAC service.

Whanaungatanga Circle Painting

For Inquiry this term we are learning about our school values - Manaakitanga, Tukumarie, Rangimarie, Whanaungatanga and Ako.

We are learning about Whanaungatanga and this week we made circle paintings. We had a colour each and we all started by painting a circle. Then we went around and added a little bit to someone's circle and kept doing this until we had all worked together to create four beautiful paintings.

Tuakana/Teina Day

Tuesday was the first Tuakana/Teina day of the year. Our buddies helped us with our learning and we had a lot of fun spending the day with them.

Getting to know our buddies - they helped us fill in our Buddy Books

Chalk art with our buddies

Reading with our buddies

New Year, New Class.

It has been such a great start to the year. Room 2 has been settling in nicely and we have been very busy! Here are some highlights from the last 2 weeks:

First Day!

Practicing writing our whole names

Making playdough and then writing about it

Meeting our buddy class

Kiwi Sport

Music Lessons

Triangle group- Maths session

Today in maths we were learning to count on from the biggest number. We have gotten really good at saying the number that comes after,  so today we practised counting on from the biggest number. This pictures shows that we know which number is the biggest. 

Today we even added two numbers together by counting on from the biggest

 number. Miss Nua thinks we are pretty clever!

By Eve, Ana and Carla 

Double Transformer AA- Milan

Today in developmental Milan made a Double Transformer AA. Here is a short video of the cool things it can do!

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