OLYMPIC SYMBOLS

OLYMPIC SYMBOLS

We have been looking at the Olympic Symbols.

Here is what we learnt:

Olympic Motto: 

Citius

Altius

Fortius

This means Faster, Higher, Stronger

Olympic Rings

There are 5 rings they represent the 5 continents:

Asia, America, Africa, Europe, Oceania

Olympic Flag:

This flys in the country that is hosting the games until  the closing ceremony

The Torch:

This is lit in Greece, Olympia 100 days before the Olympic games start. People carry it around until the opening ceremony.

Medals

3 medals are given the the top 3 athletes in each event. 1st is gold, 2nd is silver, 3rd is bronze

Olympic Hymn

This was created by Spyridon Samaras and it was performed at the 1896 Opening ceremony Olympic Games.

Olive Branch

In the olden days these were the prizes instead of medals.

Mascot

Each country have a Mascot that represents them. NZ has the Kiwi.

TOPIC OLYMPICS

OUR TOPIC THIS TERM IS 

2016 RIO OLYMPICS

We will be looking at

Ancient Greece: Ancient Olympic Games

Rio, Brazil: Facts/Information about the host country

Current Games: links to NZ Olympic Team

Modern Olympic Games 

Olympic Symbols

"Athletes"

How to be the best

What skills and qualities Team NZ have to get to where they are

Look at documentaries of Athletes and how they got there.

GOAL SETTINGS

Room 17's - WHOLE CLASS GOALS TERM 3

Mathematics

We want to all pass level 1 and level 2 basic facts.

How will we achieve this?

We will learn the basic facts we got wrong for homework or for extension work.

Reading

We want to move up at least 2 reading levels in our next reading test.

How will we achieve this?

We will read a book EVERYDAY for homework.

We will ask and answer questions about what we read

We will sound out, read before and after words and use clues from the text or the pictures to help us with unfamiliar words

Writing

We want to add more details to our writing.

We want to work hard on our spelling.

How will we achieve this?

We will answer how and why for each idea we have.

We will learn all our spelling words for homework and during spelling activities.

MATARIKI ART (Term 2)

To celebrate Matariki our class embraced a Maori skill which was used alot for mats, baskets for food, hats and other amazing useful things. Harakeke (flax) was an amazing natural resource which was used back in the days and is still being used today to make many cultural items.

We used skewers to weave an art piece that we coloured using pastels.

Come See them in class :) 

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On there is a glimpse of our Assembly Item. We performed a Hip Hop Dance which was choreographed by our class dance experts. Hope you enjoy :)  

Cook Island Shakers

Fia Fia Night Term 2

Room 17 girls & Room 16 girls learnt 3 quick Cook Island dances. They practiced every lunch time and some of them practiced at home just to perfect their actions in preparation for the big night.

The Y8's hosted a Fiafia Night as a Fund Raiser for their trip to Rotorua and we volunteered to showcase an item.

After all the lunch time and home practices we did amazing and we looked amazing as well.

Thank you to our parents for their contribution in making this night special for the kids.

Here they are :) 

The Cook Island Squad

JUST KEEP SWIMMING

COMMUNITY SWIMMING

JUST KEEP SWIMMING

Term 2 Week 2

Our school is privilege to be able to be taught swimming skills and water safety every Thursday's. Everyone in Room 17 enjoy learning how to swim and gain confidence and knowledge on how to be safe around the water.

Thank you to those you have made it possible for our class to be part of this programme.

*Remember bring your togs every THURSDAYS

TERM 2 

We have started off to a great start working hard and ensuring that we are not wasting our learning time :)

OUR TOPIC FOR THE TERM IS

NATURAL DISASTERS

Our Class Definition for word
Natural
and 
Disaster

Natural to Room 17 means:
When something happens by itself and humans have no control over it.

Disaster to Room 17 means:
When a bad thing happens and sometimes people get hurt.

WE ARE EXPLORERS

We are Explorers!

This Term our topic is on EXPLORERS.

Recently we have been learning about 

SIR EDMUND HILLARY

CAPTAIN JAMES COOK

&

NEIL ARMSTRONG

We integrated MATHS, TOPIC & ART and created

either a ROCKET SHIP or A BOAT.

We used 

SHAPES and Different Art Materials like: Paint, Crepe paper, toilet paper roll, paper plate, pastels, straws and different coloured paper.

Rocket Ship

We used paper plates for our background and painted it black. We then added stars by putting white and yellow dots on it. After that we made our rocket ship. We looked at rocket ships and identified the different shapes we could see and we created our own rocket ship and added crepe paper at the end for effect.

Boat(Waka/ Vaka)

We learnt about the different patterns we have for each culture in our class. Kowhaiwhai (koru), Island Tapa cloth patterns including the MANULUA (our senior school).

We selected the different kinds of patterns we liked and used 3 different coloured pastels to create a personalised boat.

Come and see our FINAL PRODUCTS

in the HALL

Buddy Maths

In Week 6 we BUDDIED up with our senior class RM 9 and did Maths together.

We add one group working on a word problem with Matua Fou and then another group with Whaea Marie doing Number Knowledge Activities.

Mixed abilities groups helps us learn from each other. We were all teachers and students teaching and learning together.

Things we learnt.

• How to work well in groups
• Share our ideas 
• Make sure we are not passengers who just sit there and do nothing, we need to help each other
• LISTEN
• If we don't understand we need to ask question until we do understand
• BE RESPECTFUL

Number Knowledge Activities

• Numbers before and after
• Place Value Games
• Identifying numbers between 0-1000
• Making 10s
• Shapes 
• Basic Facts

We partnered up and the "magic began." Thanks to Room 9 students our class were able to see how helpful we should be to each other, how to ask questions when we don't understand and respect others opinions and other interesting things.

Thank you Rm 9 :)

 Looking forward to our BUDDY SPORTS SESSION

  

BUDDY CLASS

WE HAVE A BUDDY CLASS! YAY!

We had the opportunity to have buddy reading with the year 5 & 6's in Room 9. It was GREAT FUN we all enjoyed it. Room 9 came with a book of their choice and we all buddied up and they got to read us a story. They asked questions to test us and make sure we were paying attention. We all got together in the end and talked about our books and shared what we had learnt. 

We ended off with a shared book "Dragons! Dragons! Dragons! 
Thank you so much room 9 (http://potuiva.blogspot.co.nz/), we would love to do this again and hopefully we can buddy up one day for maths.

"The best way to learn is from each other" and this is an awesome example of the concepts "tuakana teina," & "AKO"- reciprocal learning. 

PORTS OF AUCKLAND

WE ARE EXPLORERS!

Our Class is studying about EXPLORERS this term.

So far we have been learning about

SIR EDMUND HILLARY

JAMES COOK

We had the opportunity to go to the Auckland Maritime Museum.

We got to discover alot of awesome things.

Our favourite part of the trip was our boat ride because some of us have never been on a boat. 

We learnt about the ports of auckland from early 1800s - 21st century  and in the museum we got to see different boats/waka/conoes of the great migration (different cultures migrating to New Zealand) and information on great explorers including Captian James Cook. 

It was a Beautiful Sunny Day!

We joined learning and bonding with our parent helpers. Now to RESEARCH or Shall I Say EXPLORE MORE into Learning about our topic TUNE IN.

"A CLASS WHO WORKS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER"

We have been working a lot in groups and being able to share our ideas with others helps others learn at the same time.

"AKO"

"TUAKANA TEINA"