55 Feathers slide-show...

Check out our slide-show from our creative reading and art activity with the book, "Fifty-Five Feathers"...


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55 Feathers fun!

Today we got the opportunity to spend some time learning with our friends in Room 6 and Room 14. We read the story, "Fifty-Five Feathers" by Ben Brown & Helen Taylor and then worked in our co-operative groups to create a feathered cloak for Gecko.

Room 6 helped us get started and Room 14 helped us finalise the last details for our final fashion show!

Miss G said that we were fantastic role models and she was so impressed with all the creative ideas and experimentation that went on in the class...! Thank you Room 6 and Room 14 for working with us.

ASSEMBLY!

Room 2 ran Senior Syndicate Assembly today, and we did an amazing job! 

Miss G asked us what we wanted to share with the rest of our syndicate and we organised it all... 

We sung "Tutira mai nga iwi" with Mrs Gear playing the guitar for us (Thank you, Mrs Gear!)... 

 

Bethany, Levi, and Samara ran the assembly, and they were so supportive for the rest of us! 

 

Jake and Matariki shared a slide-show presentation that they had created about Wolverines... 

 

And we taught the "Bim Bum - Handclapping" song with our peers... 

 

... they loved it! 

 

Thanks to our crowd controllers, too, who kept a look out for positive behaviour and rewarded those people with a GOTCHA and the privilege to sit on the back row of chairs... 

 

Well done, Room 2! 

Spelling Place Names Phonetically

Yesterday in Room 2, we did challenge number 4, which was to spell place names in New Zealand phonetically.

Look at what we have come up with so far!

Our Tuesday I.T. Project!

We are really lucky in Room 2 to have so much whanau support. Today we had Morgan bring in a freshly-made loaf of rewena paraoa (traditional Maori bread), baked by her dad; which we shared for morning tea - YUM! 

We also have Aiden's dad - Tony - coming in to work with us on a Tuesday morning. He is helping us to learn more about I.T. through videos and other media. Tony has created a website for our learning on a Tuesday morning where you can stay up-to-date with what we're up to. It is called, 

'Room Two - Awapuni School - Tuesday I.T. Project' 

Thanks, Tony! 

 

 

Room 2 - What We Do!

Getting our hands dirty!

In Room 2 we understand not only the importance of caring for our environment, but to also have a balance with putting pen-to-paper, fingers-to-keyboard, paintbrush-to-canvas, and hands-to-earth!

We have had a busy week this week; learning to re-craft our writing, spending time publishing, reflecting, and learning about the origins of ourself and our whanau through our mihimihi and art. So it was a really lovely change for us to be able to get out of the class for the afternoon and get our hands dirty...

We have been looking after our seedlings in class and Mr Whitehead came in with some new seedlings this afternoon, too, which we all worked together to plant in the Awapuni School garden. When we weren't working with our partner to plant our seedlings, we were exploring the school garden and enjoyed spending some time connecting with our school environment.

Mr Whitehead says that we worked really hard and did an "amazing job" - he looks forward to coming back to plant the rest of the seedlings with us next week. Thank you, Mr Whitehead!

More photos can be found here on the Room 2 space on the Awapuni website.