Science in a Van

This Morning we were very lucky to have Alan and Emily from

Science in a Van come and visit us.

We were learning about 'The wonderful world of bubbles'.

After the show, we did some writing and recorded us reading it.

Have a look at our stories and look back later for some snippets of what we saw. 

ing

In Reading the Red Stars have been learning word endings. Today we were looking at 'ing'.

Ajani and Isaia's book

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.