Drop, cover, hold!

On Thursday it the National Shake out day and lots of people around New Zealand did an earthquake drill, which is a practise. A sound came over the speakers and we had to get under a table and hold on. We had to cover our head because we have to look after our brains.

Here is some of the writing we did today. We put in some pictures of us under the tables to show what we did when we did the earthquake drill.

Elijah 

Michael 

Ngere 

Zion 

Maui and the Sun

Last term our inquiry topic was Myths and Legends. We looked at lots of different myths and legends. We really enjoyed learning about Maui and we drew the sun from Maui and the Sun.
We practised first by drawing them in our inquiry books. We practised drawing the half sun and then a full circle to see which one we liked best.

 Savannah and Jordis's practise sun

 Cheldyn and Vaka's Practise sun 

 Mariah and Jairus's practise sun 

 Fereti's practise Sun

 Chance and Lino's practice sun 

 Orlando's practise sun 

Jah and Dane got to take Mariana's sun home.

Then we did them on a big piece of paper

If you went to the Matariki light festival at Te Oro you might have seen some of our artwork because it was on display at an exhibition! 

Buddy time with Room 7

Maui and the Sun, by Vaka and Matthew.

How the tiger got his stripes, by Curtys and Fereti.


How the tiger got its stripes, by Dane and Alo


How the tiger got his stripes, by Falakiko and Christine


How the elephant got its trunk, by Aja, Jordis and Kupri


How the tiger got his stripes, by Paris and Savannah


How the tiger got its stripes, by Kira and Matthias


How the tiger got his stripes, by Faith and Ana Fifita


How the tiger got its stripes, by Demetrius and Michael



Maui and the sun, by Azaleigha and Diziah

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Sequence

We have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar in Room 2, we cut out and coloured parts of the story, then put them in order to show that we understand the story!

By Fereti

By Ngere

By Jordis

By Jairus

By Michael

By Vaka

Star of the week

Congratulations Michael! You have tried really hard with your biking!

Room 2's Zoo

In Room 2 we made posters of animals we would love to see at the zoo! 

We can write- By room 2

This week in Room 2 we have been reading the big book I can write. The book is about a boy who shows us all the places he can write, so we decided we would make a book of the places that we write in our classroom.

Room 2's alphabet book

This term in Room 2 we have been practising our letter sounds. We know all of our letters and letter sounds now and we are starting to learn blends. We made a book to share our learning about letters and letter sounds.
Check, check, check it out!

WALT read with our eyes- Sharks

Sharks guided reading

Today during reading time we were practising reading like we are talking.
First we looked at the different punctuation marks in the book and talked about what we do with our voices when reading.
Then we looked through all the pictures to give us clues about the book.
In this photo you can see the picture of the map, after we read the book once we read it to each other and tried to follow the path on the map.

Writing in Room 2!

Today we went to the sandpit to make sandcastles. We found out that patting wet sand was the best way to build a big sandcastle. Some of us worked with buddies and some of us worked by ourselves. Look at these pictures and let us know who you think has made the biggest sandcastle.

 Ana Fifita and Savannah 

 Lino, Ana and Elijah 

 Michael 

 Chance and Vaka

 Jah 

 Ocean 

 Christine and Chelydn 

Mariah, Matthias, Orlando and Fereti