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.

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.

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!

Our first week at School for 2014

We have had a great week getting to know each other and beginning our new learning.

We like having some new and some old faces in our class!

Colour maths! We all are really good at knowing our colours!

Our school values help us use our heart with each other

Dziah beginning to paint her heart.

Michael painting his heart.

Carla painting.

It's nice to have Terell, Isaia and Dziah back!

It's great having Lopiseni back too!

Havea took a wonderful photo of Michael showing Mrs Micic his independent work.

Day 2 of 2014 at Tamaki Primary!

Welcome back to Room 2 at Tamaki Primary for 2014!

We've had a lovely start to the year with some new and old faces.

Here are some photos of what we have got up to on Day 2 for the new year.

Hard at work practicing writing. Our word for today was 'I'.

Michael working hard learning 'I'.

Carla learning how to be nice to Tūpeke.

Leon-Lebron working hard.

Carla working hard.

Havea working hard.

Leon-Lebron and Havea worked hard to make this puzzle.

We finished today with a brainstorm of what we have done.