Special Visitors to Room 2

On Thursday Josiah and his mum brought along his two piglets for us to look at. They were very cute. They were in a bin with some hay to keep them warm. They were very small - only two weeks old. They drink milk from their mum but when they are bigger they will eat almost anything. Josiah said they don't like orange skins much or onions. They made little squealing noises when Josiah's mum picked them up and they were a bit scared. We tried to be really quiet. We liked having them in our classroom!

Kiwiana Art By Room 2

Here is Xanthe's art work. Notice the lovely koru shapes on the frame.

Here is Grace's piece of art. She has some lovely 'greenstone' shapes on her frame also.

Cameron's Buzzy Bee is flying over the mountains. Cameron has some  NZ koru shapes on his frame.

Kiwiana at the Art Gallery

On Friday we went to the Art Gallery to look at some of the art there that has a kiwi flavour to it. Here we are listening to John our Art Gallery teacher. 

After looking at some art we went into the classroom to create our own pieces. We drew a buzzy bee - one of New Zealand's icons - and coloured it with pastel. We cut it out and stuck it onto a picture from around New Zealand. 

We stuck foil onto the frame and cut out shapes from 'greenstone' (textured paper) to put on top of the foil. We love our masterpieces which are going to be displayed in our classroom at school.

Kiwiana

In Room 2 we are learning about what makes New Zealand special. We have been talking about icons - a symbol or picture of something that is unique to our country. We have created some pictures using kidpix to show some of the well known New Zealand icons.

This is Campbell's  New Zealand flag.

Here is Salani's kiwi.

Jack's All Blacks are ready to play.

Our Olympic Fun Day

On Thursday we had our Olympic Fun day .We started with an opening ceremony where we sang the school song and raised the flag to the National Anthem. The olympic oath was read and Mrs Tobin made a speech.

 The whole school got put into teams and we went round lots of different stations. There were activities like straw javelin throwing, tennis ball shotput, knee wrestling, tug of war , balloon bob and many others. It was so much fun.

The Greatest Feat.

Last Friday was the last day for our pedometers. We were really pleased that we got as far as Rotorua on our map of New Zealand. We are going to keep up with all our wonderful exercise.

Jayden's Kidpix Story

We have been using the kidpix programme on the laptops to plan and illustrate our stories. We had to choose a character and a setting for the first picture. Then we had to introduce a problem in the second and solve the problem in the third picture. We used these pictures to write the text to go with the story. Here are some of our stories.