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.

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.

Our work on 'ShowMe'

We have been writing stories about Stick man and Gruffalo. Calais and Janaiah have published theirs on 'ShowMe'.

Nitika and Cyrus started their first day of school yesterday, we used our numbers to practice finger control on the iPad.

Elizah did some math questions on his own as a followup to his groups lesson.

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.

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.

Sending our first emails from our iPads!

We are learning how to send an email.

This morning we worked with Mrs Vercoe to learn how to send her an email. 

We chose a story from our story writing book to type out and then send it to Mrs Vercoe. 

We liked looking at the board and seeing that Mrs Vercoe had got our email.

Mrs Vercoe has 1 new email.

Here are some of the emails we sent.

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

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.

Easter eggs and Calais is 6!!

Last Thursday Tamaki Primary was gifted Easter Eggs! Janaiah was very happy about getting hers.

The students in Room 2 weren't allowed to eat them until they got home, when  we talked about them today, some students ate them all on their own, some shared with others, and some gave them to their brothers and sisters to have! 

Calais is now 6!

Over the long weekend Calais turned 6! Room 2 had some party cake to celebrate.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALAIS!

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.

The New Cat

In Room 2 we read the book 'The New Cat' by Joy Cowley

We looked in our lunch boxes and thought about what Greedy Cat would eat if he was in our class.. this is what we thought... 

Room 2s Cat from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.