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.

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.

Our visit from Laura

We had Laura from Animates come and visit our class.

We told her some things we have been learning about our rabbit, and she answered our questions. 

Laura answering our questions.

 We went into our school garden and showed Laura what leaves we thought our rabbit would like.

 Tūpeke has his first adventure outside with his harness.

At first he was a bit scared. Laura told us that when he started eating some grass it meant that he wasn't scared any more.

Dizah knows that we don't pull on the lead.

Ngataupaki knows that we keep the lead loose between us and Tūpeke.

 Laura taught us how to hold the lead the right way. 

Walking a rabbit isn't the same as walking a dog, so we had to learn how.

Tūpeke feels safe with Petelo.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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!

There has been lots happening in Room 2 the last little while....

Last week on Friday we had our Duffy Role model assembly.
Our role model was Tony Williams, he talked about how important it is to learn words and read us some of the new book he is writing!

To find out more about Tony Williams, Click here.

Paeroa and Paki were given Duffy books for having an awesome attitude towards reading! 

 Last week we had a go at paper mache, Our shared book for the week was 'The swamp nest', so we made some swamp eggs! We learnt what happens when we mix flour and water together, and we learnt how to work together. Look at all our green balloons!

It was also the last day for Abigail before moving over to Samoa to live.
 We will miss you Abigail, hope you have a great time over there, and keep up the awesome learning!

Foam Fun!

On Friday Room 1 and Room 2 joined for the day...

We had fun writing our numbers, words, letters and names in foam!

Have a look at the photos that students from the classes took...

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.