Nikau's trip to Tahuna Beach

We hopped on to the hot, stuffy bus to our destination, Tahuna Beach. We arrived there excited and ready for a big day of awesomeness. First, we played on the playground and the field with some sports gear. Then soon enough we got hungry for some sausages. We ate them and had lunch. After that we were on the beach swimming, playing and enjoying a great day. Soon, it was time to get back on the bus and go back, sandy and wet.
 Comment about what you liked about the day.
 Written by Jordan.

 Check out the photos from our day

What was the best part of your holiday?

In the holidays Vanderley and I traveled to Brasil to introduce our son Mateo to Vanderley's family. The best thing about being in Brasil was eating all the amazing fruit straight off the trees, like these bananas.

Tell me what the best part of your holiday was. Remember to write your name with your comment :)

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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