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

Room 2's Zoo

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

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!

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

Welcome back for 2015!

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are happy to be back at school this year. Here are some photos of what we have been doing in Room 2 this week.

 Look at some words that Orlando wrote during reading time! 

WOW!  Chelydn can read and write these words by himself.

 Ana is learning to write her full name all by herself. 

 Christine can write her full name without looking at her name card now! Great stuff Christine. 

 Savannah is practising writing her full name because she has a very long name. 

Vaka can nearly write his full name by himself and is working on remembering finger spaces between words.  Keep up the great work!