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!

Our first week at School for 2014

We have had a great week getting to know each other and beginning our new learning.

We like having some new and some old faces in our class!

Colour maths! We all are really good at knowing our colours!

Our school values help us use our heart with each other

Dziah beginning to paint her heart.

Michael painting his heart.

Carla painting.

It's nice to have Terell, Isaia and Dziah back!

It's great having Lopiseni back too!

Havea took a wonderful photo of Michael showing Mrs Micic his independent work.

Day 2 of 2014 at Tamaki Primary!

Welcome back to Room 2 at Tamaki Primary for 2014!

We've had a lovely start to the year with some new and old faces.

Here are some photos of what we have got up to on Day 2 for the new year.

Hard at work practicing writing. Our word for today was 'I'.

Michael working hard learning 'I'.

Carla learning how to be nice to Tūpeke.

Leon-Lebron working hard.

Carla working hard.

Havea working hard.

Leon-Lebron and Havea worked hard to make this puzzle.

We finished today with a brainstorm of what we have done.

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.

Tamaki Primary Movie Trailer

Click play to view the trailer of the movies our school has made for the Manaiakalani Film Festival this year. 

 

Manaiakalani Film Festival Trailer - Tamaki Primary School Movies 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.

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.

Lopiseni writing his name

During handwriting Lopiseni practiced writing his name with different colours.

Elijah knows his alphabet

Elijah is super clever and now knows his whole alphabet mixed up!!

He found a quiet spot to go through the alphabet on the iPad to show how clever he is. 

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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.