Tuakana Teina time with room 5

This week we had buddy time in the library. Our buddies from room 5 helped us to read and decorate a poem about a robot. Here are some photos of the work we did with our buddy 

                                                   

Kelly Tarltons trip!

We were lucky enough to go on a trip to Kelly Tarltons last week. We got to see lots of animals that live under the sea. Here are some photos of what we saw.

Leon-Lebron loved seeing the Jellyfish, they looked like they were glowing!

The stingray came so close to the glass that Carla got a fright!

Abraham loved the starfish because of all the colours. 

Can you spot the young fluffy penguin?

Look at this huge shark! It was so big we could all fit inside its mouth!

Leon- Lebron. Fun Friday

 I like playing with Bumble bee. 

I like Bumble bee because he is cool. 

Leon-Lebron and Alazae buddy time

Thank You Science in Van!

Have a look at their website if you want to know more about
Science in a Van.

Science in a Van - Bubbles from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

ing

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

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.

Tupac and Tūpeke

Mrs Kelly has a baby bunny at home called Tupac.

One day she brought him into our class instead of Tūpeke to see if we would notice...

and we did!

We did some writing about Tupac being Tūpeke's friend...

Michael

Wesley

Leon-Lebron

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!

We have been doing some wonderful work!

(Click on the photos to enlarge)

The Start of Week 3 of Term 1

It's amazing how many photos can be taken in  a day!

Today we have been beginning to look at how we take a good photo (and video) with an iPad, when Mrs Vercoe looked through them she was amazed at all the ones that were blog quality!!!

Great team work here!! Terell and Leon-Lebron worked together to order  sentence.

Mrs Vercoe was very proud of Michael getting his work done all on his own!

Well done Abraham! He can put a sentence in order.

Dziah hard at work!

Lopiseni worked so hard and quietly that Mrs Vercoe was very impressed when he told her that he was finished!

Today Terell and his reading group were learning the word 'come'.

Dziah painting her face on the background.

Terell painting his face on the background.

We finished our art so quickly that we even had some time to go into the music room for a short music lesson. Mrs Vercoe is very proud of us because we always have our best listening ears on the the music room!

Welcome Abraham!

 With Waitangi day on Thursday, last week zoomed by!
We have been looking at Hauora, and part of that is learning about ourselves. We have been learning how to do self portraits (Mrs Vercoe thinks we're pretty good!) and we're now ready to paint some to display!

Terell working hard to make his coloured background.

Leon-Lebron knows that we need to make the colours bold.

What wonderful artists!

Everyone is awesome at working together and sharing.

Carla is very good at using a paintbrush!