Water simulation

Water is something we take for granted, we turn on the tap and clean water appears.
 Many families around the world do not have access to clean water, and sometimes have to walk long distances to collect and carry water back, every day!!
 They have much bigger containers than a bucket, and often carry it on top of their heads (like the character, Mariatu, in our class book).
 It is suppose to be our right to have access to clean water, but many are not having this right being met!
We experienced what it would be like to carry water over difficult terrain.
 We were competing to have the most water remaining in our buckets,check out our video to see how we did... Imagine if we had to live a life like Mariatu, collecting water daily?

Blood diamonds

A big thank you to Reon and Findlay from Room 8, who came and shared their slide show project
on a protest song about Blood Diamonds by Kanye West. We learned that this song is based on the people who are not having their rights met!! Instead they are being beaten as they work, and being paid little money to find these diamond, just so they have enough money to by food to live.
What message or facts did you find out today??

Here is the song they show us



What other songs do you know that try share a message about peoples rights not being met??

Good Luck

We wish all those students participating in the Winter Sports Tournament good luck for their games!!
Play fair but play hard and of course have fun!!
A special good luck to all the students in
Room 2 taking part; Philip, Josh.N, Jimmy, Lauren,Josh.B, Maggie, Hayley, Zane, Xavier and Georgia. We can not wait to here how you went! Also a big thank you to all the students taking billets from Bohally Intermediate.

Put a comment of good luck here!
Think of a good comment like Mr Tyers favourite:
 "If you lose say nothing, if you win say even less!"

What are our rights?

We have started looking at human rights, particularly children's rights. This great video gave us a look at how our rights were formed. Do you now know some of our rights? With rights comes responsibilities too!! Do you know of any cases where peoples rights are not being met, locally? nationally? globally?

Opening ceremony

Here is our opening ceremony for the Tamanui Te Ra's winter sports challenge.

Teams chant off

Today the groups presented their chants.

Bhutan

1. How well they presented it as a team

2. The chant reflected their country

3. It was a positive team challenge

Cambodia and Burma were tied at 8 out of 10,

while Bhutan scored 6 and Vietnam got 4.

I hope you are learning your chants for 

tomorrows opening ceremony!!

Cambodia

Vietnam

Burma

Preparing for the opening ceremony

This term we are having a syndicate Winter Sports Challenge. Classes are put into 4 teams and have adopted a developing country. In Room 2 we have Cambodia, Bhutan, Burma and Vietnam.
Here is a look into their preparation, as they make banners and flags to represent their countries.
I can not wait to see what they look like in the opening ceremony!

What interesting information have you found out about your country???