Room 2 2019

Welcome to room 2 2019

Kia Ora and welcome to our class page. Room 2 is a delightful class of students from year 3-5. Our class page is a place where we share news and information with our community and celebrate the learning of our awesome tamariki.

'Visiting' egypt:

This week our class 'stopped' at Egypt on our Journey around the world in 80 days. We learnt about the pyramids, mummies, pharaoh's and lots of other interesting things about Egypt. We created our own pharaoh headdress with chalk and learnt how to write our names in hieroglyphics. We had so much fun!

Our new karakia:

This term our school is focusing on a new karakia that we are all learning in our morning hui.

Our first stop on our journey 'around the world in 80 Days'!

For the past two weeks we have been learning about England and the United Kingdom. We learnt about the different celebrations each country has in the United Kingdom and some symbols that represent these countries. We made a St George shield with symbols from each country; a daffodil for Wales, a rose for England, a Shamrock for Ireland and a Scottish thistle for Scotland. We learnt about St David's day, St Patricks day, St George day and St Andrews day. To finish of our 'visit' to the United Kingdom we had a high tea with food from each of these countries; scones, sandwiches, welsh cakes, shortbread and lucky charm popcorn.

Happy mothers day!

This week have spent time making flowers and poems for out special Mum's, Aunties and Nan's in our lives. This morning we had our Mum's come into class and help us with some of our art. We also had a special mothers day assembly and morning tea for all of our awesome Mum's!

Room 2 Gully inquiry-camping area

Last year our school made a Vision Map for our gully, this term we chose an inquiry from the vision map to focus on for the term. We decided that it would be awesome to create a camping area in our gully. Today we started planning where we might have our camp area and what we might include in our camping area.

Paper Mache Hot air balloons:

Today we started to make our hot air balloons to start off our inquiry of 'Around the World in 80 Days'. We can't wait to see the finished results!

Term 2 Newsletter:

exploring our gully:

We have been exploring our beautiful gully this term. Our senior students are about to start an inquiry into our gully and are hoping to improve its environment and look after the native animals and trees in it. We hope to create learning spaces throughout our gully so all students can enjoy it.

Year 5 & 6 aongatete camp:

Our year 5 students joined the rest of the senior school on our bi-annual Aongatete camp at the end of term 1. Students did lots of awesome activities including; visiting Tapuna Quarry park, archery, rock climbing, challenge course, bivouac building, burma trail and Katikati bird gardens.

Room 2's thinking club:

Some of our students have been working with Miss Martin in our 'Thinking Club' every Friday this term. These students have been learning about Rube Goldberg machines and have been planning, creating and testing their own versions of these machines.

Our Mindfulness Pillows:

Room 2 is learning to practice mindfulness in class. We have learnt all about the benefits of being mindful and have been working on mindfulness everyday in class. Our pillows help us to relax and be comfortable during our mindfulness time.

Collaborative building Challenge!

Room 2 has been learning to work collaboratively this term. Check out some of our awesome creations from our collaborative building challenge!

Busy, Busy, Busy!

We have had an extremely busy start to the year here in Room 2!
We got into our gardens and got them ready to plant with new plants for the year, our garden is going to be a Rōngoa garden (healing plants).
We have also been practicing for our school swimming sports in week 4, we have been learning about pool safety and have been practicing our swimming skills.