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.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2013

Here is our movie which is a part of the Manaiakalani film festival for 2013.
Please watch, enjoy and COMMENT!!

Room 2 is a class of New Entrant and year 1 Students. There are lots of new things you have to learn when you start school, and one of them is learning how to read.

Learning to read takes involvement from many people.

In this movie students in Room 2 share a song they originally wrote about some of the people they read with through the week.

Reading is important and it is fun!

We Like to Read from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Elijah knows his alphabet

Elijah is super clever and now knows his whole alphabet mixed up!!

He found a quiet spot to go through the alphabet on the iPad to show how clever he is. 

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Our Writing

We all sent Mrs Vercoe an email with one of our stories.

We are learning Ukulele in Room 2

To start the term we're getting into learning some ukulele.

Today we were learning the parts of the ukulele through a song.

WAL the parts of a ukulele from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

We are also learning how to strum in time to a beat. Everyone was doing so well strumming in time, that we decided to sing along too!

With practice we will get better and better... and have fun along the way!

WALT Strum in time to the beat. from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Athletics Day!

Tamaki Primary had a wonderful athletics day on Wednesday!

Here are a few photos from the day...

Go BENGHAZI!

5 year old Girls race

5 year old Boys race

Tupeke enjoyed getting out with everyone too!

 

Rangimārie

We are learning more about some of our school values this term. 

Rangimārie is one of our school values, which means Peaceful Relationships.

We brainstormed as a class what we could do to show Rangimārie in our class, and after role playing peaceful relationships we signed our names to say that we will try our best to have peaceful relationships.

We are showing Rangimārie.

We are showing Rangimārie.

We are showing Rangimārie.

We are showing Rangimārie.

We are showing Rangimārie.

How we can show peaceful relationships.

We are going to try our best to show peaceful relationships.

Peter Rabbit

We have been learning about rabbits.

We watched a youtube video of Peter Rabbit eating Mr McGregors carrots after his mum told him not to, then we wrote our own stories about it... here they are!

Peter Rabbit - Written and Read by Room 2 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Our first Skype!!

Last week we were lucky enough to skype our Quadblogging friends from Hamilton East School.

We had lots of fun making new friends. 

We told each other our names, and talked about our days. 

We look forward to skyping again!

Waiting for 10am... Our skype time!

Elijah introducing himself.

Lia introducing herself.

Petelo talking about our day.

Elizah talking about our day.

Look at us!

We looked through our writing books and chose what we wanted to read out to put on our blog!
 

Have a listen to us read some of our stories!

Elijah - baby Bear from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Janaiah-Muddy Dog from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Ngataupaki - popcorn from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Stanley-Monsters from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Viliami-Popcorn from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

The Plastic bag Princess and the Rubbish Raiders

Plastic Bag Princess - Lia from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Our Story Writing

Our start to learning fractions

Room 1 and 2 were lucky enough to do all their learning together today!

For Maths we did a snapshot on learning fractions, and in partners we had to think about how to make a half and a quarter, what they look like, and what one half and one quarter means... we started off with pencil and paper, and then had a bit more fun...

Solid, Liquid, Gas

In Room 2 we have been learning about what a solid, liquid and gas is. 

To help with this we have been doing a lot of hands on experiments... which we LOVE doing!!!

In our class we have salt crystals growing and been watching how we can make a solid into a liquid and how it turns back into a solid, we have also seen this through our melted crayon pictures which glow in the windows when the sun shines through!

We have looked at eggs, and made predictions about what they were like inside their solid shell... Room 2 though that it was a solid too, 

but when Mrs Vercoe broke the egg it was a liquid!!

We then cooked them and saw steam which Petelo knew was a gas, then we broke them again and found that they had turned into a solid!!

Yesterday we started an experiment with 'water boxes', we tried to hold them, but they always fell though our fingers... a liquid needs to be in  a container with no holes, 

or it will go EVERYWHERE!!
Our 'water boxes' are now in the freezer to change them into a solid... I wonder what they will look like this afternoon!

Our Work on Kid Pix

We have been learning how to type out the stories that we have been reading in class, and then have them read back to us.

Here are snippets of our books that we have typed out, and an illustration by us!

Thanks you Kiani for helping us with these.

Buddy Time!!

We had buddy time today with Room 9!

We're looking forward to doing more learning together throughout the year.

Today we read together and practiced our spelling words.