Introducing Mateo

Hello Room 2, I hope you had a good holiday and have had a positive start back to the term!!
It must be exciting having Mrs Andersen teaching you.

In the holidays my son decided to come early. He was born on the second Monday of the holidays at 6:40 in the morning! He weighed 6.7 pound, how heavy is that in kilos??

Here is a photo of Mateo, I will bring him in to meet you sometime later in the term.

Work hard and enjoy the term, I want to hear lots of positive things from Mrs Andersen.

Mateo sun bathing

Cultural shared lunch

To celebrate all our hard work we have done this term with our topic culture and identity, Room 2 decided to have a shared lunch with food that was either from our New Zealand culture or the culture the students have been studying. There was an amazing effort and thought put into the plates of food. We had amazing curry from Cambodian, interesting rum ball with mashed potato from Hungry, Italian pizza, French biscuits and breads, Tapa's from Spain, Sushi from Japan, Toffee apples from the States, German muffins and of course our famous Anzac biscuits and Pavalova, plus many more amazing creations!!

What was your favourite food? What have you enjoyed learning about this term?

Our delicious shared lunch

Time to eat

Plenty of food!!

Reading activities

This week students could choose what they were interested in reading about, either cultural sports, tapa cloths, flax weaving or ANZAC biscuits. After reading the text, they had hands on activities to complete. Here is a look at how their activities went...

Following instructions to make a flax flower

Jay and Matt trying to make the flax fish

Trying to make colours from natural resources

More flax weaving

Keyle and Bronte giving instructions on how to play this adapted Aboriginal Australian game

Originally this game was designed to help Aboriginal women learn how to protect their babies 

Brazilian Day

Last Friday, Room 2 had an awesome Brazilian day. We started the day by learning numbers, we learnt one to ten and also several other Brazilian words. We then had a feast of the cultural Brigadeiro, which is a yummy Brazilian treat of an interesting kind of chocolate fudge. Thank you Vanderley, Miss B's husband for making that for us! Then Miss B had one of her Brazilian friends, Leonora come to our class to teach us Samba. After dancing our hips off, we ended the day with a game of Brazilian hot potato (batata quente) and the movie Rio.

What was your favourite part in the Brazilian day?

Written by Jazzy

 Check out our short video of parts of our day

Stage Band

Here is Piper and Jonathan playing their violins in assembly with the stage band.

They played "I need a dollar" by Aloe Blacc. It was fantastic to hear them play live.

Well done

Stop Racism Posters

We have been learning about what racism or discrimination during or topic of culture and identity. We were shocked to learn that racism is happening in Nelson. We decided to make some posters to help change peoples attitude. Here are some examples:

By Gemma

By Olly

By Zoe.G

By Jay

First Aid Day

Practicing recovery position - by Cameron

On Monday, Jen from Red Cross came in to do a first aid course with our class. We learnt lots of valuable skills, like how to help someone who's had an accident using the D.R.S.A.B.C method and how to save someone from choking by using back blows and chest thrusts. My favourite part was at the end when we got to bandage each others arms.
What was your favourite part? Do you have any first aid stories you'd like to share?
Written by Bronte

Back thrusts on bottle - by Max

Jen telling us the order of choking - by Daniel

Keyle seems to like having a pen in her arm - Piper

All tangled up after attempting to wrap a bandage - by Keyle

Rabbit Island

Playing touch on the beach- Kuyar

Last Friday Tamanui te Ra had a trip to Rabbit Island. We had a great day and we started it off by orienteering, followed by an awesome game of predator. "I loved all the running around" said Kendall.
We then headed down to the beach in the afternoon and had a huge game of touch, making sand castles and some of us had a refreshing swim.
Written by Samantha

Fun game of cricket - Ryan

What was your favourite part of the day??

Exploring the beach - Matthew

The brave swimmers - Grace

The start of a kingdom - Kade

Early New Zealand

Early New Zealand

What was it like?

What have you found out through your own research?

What other questions do you still have?

Strike

"STRIKE original music, dynamic presentation and creative flexibility have wowed, entertained, moved, surprised and impressed audiences within New Zealand and around the world."

Sam, Megan and Ollie up on stage

Today we were wowed by an amazing performance from Strike.
Megan, Sam and Ollie were fortunate enough to be selected to go on stage to give it a go. Megan said "it was really cool going up there and trying to go fast and keep up with the other people!"
Ollie thought "it was good being up there with other drummers, because I am a drummer. It was really loud and gave me a good vibe!" Sam "could see why they enjoy it, because it was so much fun!"

What was your favourite part of their performance??

Interviewing

We have been learning about how to ask open and closed questions, and how good questions can provide us with alot of information. We have come up with 10 open questions that we asked a buddy in the class, that would give us more information about their culture.

Here we are asking our questions and writing down the key words in their answers.

I can not wait to read what they found out!!

Lit Quiz Winners

Keyle, Daniel, Jonathan and Bronte

Congratulations to Keyle, Daniel, Jonathan and Bronte, who represented our class in the school literacy quiz last week.
We found out today that Room 2 won the quiz!!

A special congratulations to Jonathan who has also been selected to represent our school in the inter-school competition next Friday!

Well done team!!

NZ Icons

Today we used our artistic skills to try and create New Zealand icons from plasticine.

Check out some of their creative creations.


Can you recognise any of them?



Do you know any interesting facts about any New Zealand icons?

Icon guess

We have been learning about culture and identity, and how icons represent the identity of something.

Can you guess what country this icon represents?

If you are up for a challenge, see how many of these brands you know.

Interviewing Steve Carell

We are learning about how to do an interview, and notetaking peoples answers.

Now we know how to ask open and closed questions, what open questions would you ask Steve Carell if you had the chance??? 

Write you open questions as a comment on the blog, remember your name!!

Successful Swimming Sports

Well done to everyone who competed in an event at the swimming sports today. I was very proud of you all doing at least one event as a length!! We had many successes today, but a special mention to Caleb for coming first in all of his final events, well done Kaleb!!!

The highlight of the day would have to be winning the class relay!!
Thank you to all involved and everyone else who cheered them on, well done.

Our winning relay team!!

Swimming Sports

Today was our swimming sports day, and everyone came dressed in yellow to support our syndicate Tamanui te Ra!!

Best dressed class!!

You can vote here for the best dressed boy and girl in yellow!

I think you all looked fantastic, and I was impressed by the effort you all put in to supporting our syndicate, by wearing yellow!!

Who am I?

We have been writing some Who am I poems in class this week.
Can you guess who wrote these poems?
Keep guessing the person before you might be incorrect!!

Number 1 Who am I?

Number 2 Who am I?

Number 3 Who am I?

Number 4 Who am I?

Camp photos

Last week Room 2 traveled to Hanmer Springs, to spend the week having fun on our school camp.
We participated in many awesome and challenging events, like team building, rock climbing, mountain biking, tramps, high ropes, tenting etc..
Check out our photos Kendall put together to give us a quick glimpse of our week.



Put a comment, saying what your favourite part of camp was.
Don't forget to write your name before posting!

Hanmer Camp 2014

Next week we are heading to Hanmer Springs for our class camp.

I am sure you are looking forward to it as much as I am :)

There are so many exciting activities and new friendships to be made while we are there.

Post a comment telling me what you are most looking forward to.

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