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.

Using 'ShowMe' to showcase our learning

In Room 2 we have just begun to learn how to use the 'ShowMe' app on our iPads to show our learning.

Calais is learning how to add 2 sets together.

Timote is learning how to skip count in 2s.

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.

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.

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 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...

Thank You KidsCan!!

We have had wonderful rain jackets donated to us by KidsCan, and now we have super cool new shoes!

Don't we look flash!

Mrs Vercoe checked we all had the correct sizes.

Super cool shoes!!! We think they make us run fast.

LOTS of smiles in Room 2!

With it wet outside, there will be lots of dry feet walking home :)

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!

Welcome to Term 2!!

In maths we are learning about measurement.

The Term has started with a hiss and a roar, getting right back into some awesome learning with wonderful smiles on our faces!

Here we are measuring our heights.

Room 1 and 2 get to join together for Netball!

We are learning how to pass and catch a ball.

Emms is our Netball coach, she is really good at catching and passing!

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.

Aspirations

"If it's meant to be, it begins with me!"

Two of our focus words this term are 'Aspiration' and 'Inspiration'

Below is a movie Room 2 made about what they aspire to be... 

Aspirations Room2 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.