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.

Vet Visit

Our pet rabbit Tūpeke is going for a visit to the vets.

We talked about how we will miss him, and the students in Room 2 wanted to know if Tūpeke would be ok with the vets. We talked about what a vets job is, and decided that he would be very safe with them.

Here are some messages we wanted to say to the vets. 

Tupeke's vet visit 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.

Lia-Elisha has been learning how to do 'take away' problems.

Here she shows how she can do 10-4.

Our Writing

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

The Gardner - Read by the 'Busy Bees'

The Gardner - Busy Bees group 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.

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.

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.

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.

Tuakana Teina Day - Term 2

Tuakana Teina Day T2 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

The Plastic bag Princess and the Rubbish Raiders

Plastic Bag Princess - Lia from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Today we had a SURPRISE!

Mrs Kelly and the year 7 and 8 kids made a hutch for us - Petelo

Ms Hansell came in to look at it, and said we're getting rabbits! - Lia Elisha

I want to get a nice one - Dziah

Thank you for the Hutch - Timote

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...

Making Ginger Beer!

Kurariki adding Ginger and Lemon.

We have started to make Ginger Beer in Room 2.

Through making it we have looked at how some solids dissolve into liquids, and some don't. 

Right now our Ginger Beer is sitting next to the heater to make the yeast grow... which will make a gas!

Petelo and Dziah worked together to pour the  Sugar through the funnel.

Now we add the wet mix!

Lia was our photographer, but still got a turn at shaking!

We had to shake to mix everything together!!

 In a few days our Ginger Beer should be ready to drink!

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!