Fun Day

 Two weeks ago we had a wonderful fun day. We all enjoyed a cool movie and hanging around in our warm pyjamas. 

This awesome video was made for Ms Scanlan to show you all the cool things we got up to. 

Maths and Movement Part 1

 This term our class is focusing on learning our addition, subtraction and multiplication facts in fun and engaging ways.

We are all at different stages with our knowledge and to help each other we are making dances to some cool songs we found online. 

First our teachers helped us to select some facts and songs to sing. 

We choose this song about bonds to 10 and this song about doubles. 

Then we worked in 3s and 4s to come up with some cool moves to help us stay fit and learn our maths facts. 

We hope you like our dance moves and would love a comment in you try it out in your class. 

Bonds to 10 

 

Doubles 

Art Works Week One

This week we have been very busy in room 23 learning about how Art Works. 

We started off the week learning about primary colours and how to mix secondary colours. This lead to our wonderful colour wheel Art. 

 Each day our teacher shared with us a song of the day. Our favourites this week were Sweet child of mine and fly me to the moon.

Later in the week, we took on the challenge of blending colours to create sunset. We all used lots of water to help mix the colours on our paper. 

 Some of us who read with Mrs Carruthers read all about art. We learnt how to paint cute pots that we will later plan plants in and take home to our families. One great make beautiful flowers, another made clay faces and one group even learned how to make their own chalk. 

We had a great week. Check out our art and a video showing what we did. 

Art Works Assembly

 In term 3 our school theme is Art works. On Monday we had a big assembly with all of the teachers and students from Pt England School called an immersion assembly. 

All the teachers put on a show for us sharing some of the creative arts we would be doing. 

Our team is learning about all kinds of art from Music to dance, drama and of course visual art with painting and drawing to come. We can't wait to have a great term learning how Art Works! 

Have a look at team 3 item. We love the teachers funny facial expression and singing. 

Team 3 is Awesome!

This week we share our story with the school on our Pt England News Network. We wanted you to see it also. 

We hope you enjoyed our movie. 

Thank You to Niah for the amazing voice over. 

Our First day

 Today we had our first day back at school for 2022. For some of us this was the first day back for ages has we had not returned after to 2021 Covid 19 Lockdowns. 

Our First day was fulled with happy times. 

We met our teachers

We made Lego Art

Solved some maths problems

We can't want for the rest of the year!

Siapo Art

 This week we made Siapo Art.

This is Niah's recount about what we did: 

On Wednesday we did Siapo art. First Mrs Carruthers gave us paper. Then we have to make big petals. So we drew big patterns in it: next I made the big patterns. After I showed it to my teacher. I coloured it in with crayons. After you went outside to dye my art with my friends. Finally my art was finished, it looked good. 

Whale Tales

Our school is lucky enough to be designing a whale tail for the art trail. It is a trail to remind people what treasures the Bryde’s Whale are. We had to plan and a design for the tail and only one could be choose. 

Room 23 decided that we needed to have a reminder about the Bryde’s Whale in our classroom so we created Crayon and dye whale tails for our walls. 

Our First Photography Lesson

This term we are learning Photography with Ms West. Today we had our first Creative Space lesson for the term. We learned about having the subject clear in our picture. 

We used lego people as our subjects. 

Have a look at some of the amazing photos we took. 

Our Class Treaty

 We have been learning about being kind and responsible members of a classroom. As part of our learning we made a Treaty. Our Treaty has three value much like the Treaty of Waitangi has the three Ps, Protection, Partnership and Participation. 

We value Respect, Responsibility and Relationships. 

Have a look at our Treaty:

Room 23 New Friend

 Hello Everyone, 

My Name is Jimmy, I am Room 23 blocky friend. I leave them notes and remind them how amazing they are. If you look in the windows of Room 23 you will find me, I like to move around so look carefully. 

This message is from today. 

I hope to share more messages with your throughout the year.