Room 2's Performance Of The Christmas Story

 

Hifo Sharing Her Beautiful Dancing

 

What happens when light hits an object?

We have been learning about what happens when light hits and object. We have been learning lots of new vocabulary and have been practicing using them. 

My Sandcastle Story By Sofya

 Today Sofya wrote her first sentence independently. Isn't it fantastic!

Horoi Ringa

 

The Water Cycle

 

 In the water cycle the sun heats the water to do evaporation. It goes up to the cloud to be a condensation and if the cloud gets too much water it's going to rain. That's called precipitation. 

By Elijah

 

Today we have been learning about dirty water in our rivers and streams.

We made water filters to clean the water. It was so much fun!

The Water Cycle

 

Making A Cloud In A Jar

 We have been learning about precipitation. 

We made a cloud in a jar. 

Maths Problem Solving

 

We read The New Lambs.

We then had to solve this maths problem...

There are 6 lambs. Each lamb needs 2 bottles of milk each day, one in the morning and one at night.

How many bottles does the farmer need to make each day?

This is how we solved it...

Awesome Maths In Room 2

Ani and Opharas are making their own repeated addition problems using blocks.

Nia, Epalahame and Robert are practicing counting on from the biggest number.

Matua Stefan's group are solving a DMIC Problem.

Krypton and Tavita are learning basic facts.

 

Boat Fun At Swimming

 

Swimming Lessons With Swim Magic

 

'a e fanga kumā

 

Tuakana Teina During Pānui

 

Learning to spell words and our basic facts through coding

 This week we have been coding bee-bots to spell words ad to show the answers to basic facts. 

Writing Time Over Google Hangouts

Check out our amazing writers!

We have been writing our stories over google hangouts during lockdown. We have been trying to use describing words and to sound out the words that we want to write.

We are learning to write facts.

Today we are learning to write facts. We are reading a book about water boatman, crazy little insects that live in water.

Miss Gormly went on a bush walk down to the stream to see if she could see any. She didn't find any but she discovered a few other interesting things along the way.

Our writing challenge is to write some facts about water boatman. Here is Toko's.

 

New Zealand Penguins By Toko

 

Horoi ō Ringa

Letters To The People We Miss

Today we are learning to write a letter.

We have been writing letters to our friends that we don't get to see during lockdown.

Here are some of our letters.

Dear Rakeena

I hope you have a great day today because we play together and we get to be friends.

Love from Saryah

Dear Ani and Saryah

I love you because I have been your friend.

Love rom Rakeena

Story Writing Over Hangouts

I went to make a tree house because I like tree houses.

By Rakeena

I like my tree house. 

I like it. 

It is the best and it has lights and it has a swing.

By Ani

Uploading to Google Drive

Today we have been learning how to upload to Google Drive.

Well done Rakeena.

 

 

Here is how to do it.

Te Reo Māori Lessons With Matua Andre

 

We have been loving our Te Reo sessions with Matua Andre. 

Robert's Weekend Recount

Birthday Celebrations

Our Fire Fighter Stories

Hifo has recorded her story using Explain Everything. 

The fire fighters have stuff on the fire truck. They have a crow bar and cones and they have a hose in the fire truck. They have ladders on the back of the truck. They help people if they crash or if they get stuck in the house. If there is a fire in your house get down, get low and get out fast to a safe meeting place. They wear gloves, coats, a helmet, gas mask and a tank bottle.

By Toko

Wen we went to the fire fighters they said we can have a picture. we looked at the fire truck and we saw ladders and cones. they brought a smoke alarm and it was loud. You have to get down, get low, get out fast.
We saw a hose. It was cool. We got fire fighters stickers. I love fire fighters.

By Saryah



The Fire fighters came here to school.

By Rakeena


First the fire fighters wear gloves, a helmet and coat. We do not touch a fire because it is going to hurt people.
The fire fighters are fast.
They help people to get better because they are good people.

By Elijah


They wear pants, boots and they wear gloves. we went to see the truck.

By Aaliyah


The fire truck is helping people to get away from the fire and get down get low and get out fast! The lights open up. We took photos outside the fire truck.

By Virginia

A Visit From Fire Fighters

Today our Panmure Fire Fighters came to school to teach us about fire safety and what fire fighters do to help the community.

We have been doing lots of learning about fire wise so it was a great opportunity to ask the fire fighters questions.

What is your whanau's safety plan in the event of a fire?

What are the escape routes?

Will your whanau meet at the mail box? Where would be a good meeting place?

Remember... if there is a fire... get down, get out and stay out!

Welcome To Medical School

Our topic this week is jobs.

To learn about jobs and how to do them we have been going to Tamaki University.
Today we went to Medical School to learn how to be doctors.

We learned the names of our bones and found out why bones are important. 

We made two bodies out of play dough, one with bones (straws) and one without. The one with bones was much stronger and could sit up. The one without bones was floppy and couldn't sit up.

Making Kites To Celebrate Matariki

We have been celebrating Matariki with Te Puna Wairua.
Here is a movie showing the process of kite making. We had to problem solve, work collaboratively and think about what we knew about kites and other things that fly.

Cyber Smart Learners

Krypton and Rakeena Share Their Amazing Mathematical Thinking

We have been learning to use skip counting and repeated addition to solve multiplication and division problems.
Krypton and Rakeena would like to share their thinking with you.

The Crow Tales;

Today we read Clever Crow from the book Crow Tales.
Miss Gormly re-enacted the story using our friend Skippy Frog. He was thirsty and needed to have a drink but couldn't reach the water. How did he solve the problem?

Then we wrote about it.

We love reading with each other.

This week we have been reading Tricky Rat. We read the story with our friends. We help each other.

Tricky Rat

The Faces In Room 2

As part of our Oral Language Programme we had to follow instructions on how to create a face using different kinds of lines, patterns and shapes. We discovered what vertical, horizontal and parallel lines were. We had to draw curved lines and connect lines together. 
It was hard following instructions but we did it and the results were amazing. Each of our pictures is unique, special in their own ways...just like us.

Sharing Our Learning So You Can Create Art Like Us

Cohen's 'How To' Video

Writing About Our Art

Teaching My Friend

Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa

This week we have been celebrating Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa, Samoan language week.

William, Toko and Puanesi learned how to great each other in Samoan. This is the video they made.

Back to school!

Back to school!
What fun!!!!

This week we have been reading the book Grandma's Vase.

First we read the story. Then we sequenced the parts of the story, matching the text to the pictures.

In the story the little girl makes a vase for her Nana using things from the recycling bin.
We decided to also create something from objects in the recycling bin.

Look at our wonderful creations.

Ani and Rakeena's sea bird after a discussion about seabirds and the fact that they eat fish not worms.

This is Elijah and Cohens water tank after talking about the drought that we are having and how Miss Gormly drinks rain water from her water tank.