Celebrating Diwali with Team 8

Happy Diwali!

Check out day of celebrating Diwali with our buddy class Team 8.

Making music with Ti Rakau sticks

Room 11 spent the afternoon learning to follow the song 
and patterns using ti rakau sticks.

First we made the ti rakau sticks by rolling newspaper or magazines tightly 

and sellotaping them together.

Next we had to break the song down into patterns and learn each pattern separately before them altogether to perform the song. Some patterns were harder 

than others, but we got there!

Watch our awesome performance below.

Tread Lightly

Tread Lightly 2018

Room 11's Kiwiana Masks

For Arts week Room 11 looked at the work of New Zealand born artist Lester Hall as  inspiration for our art.

We used the Tiki and Kiwiana patterns and designs for our multi-media masterpieces.

Click on the link below to view our amazing, mind-blowing masks!!

Lest we forget

Room 11 spent the week learning about and commemorating ANZAC day.
Mrs Waite bought in some special items that belonged to her husbands grandfather who fought in a war.

They were really interesting, and it was great to hear a real war story.

 

This a cup that had lots of engraving about the war on it.

  

This was a certificate that the soldier received after the war and a shaving kit that soldiers had to carry with them during the war. It even still had the soap!

Next... we made ANZAC biscuits. Yum!

We had to work in small groups and work out the quantities by

halving each ingredient. 

This turned out to be tricky and some biscuits tasted a little bit better than others, but we still enjoyed them!

Delicious!!

Our Class Mihimihi's

Room 11 has been busy in Term 1 making a Google Tour of their Mihimihi 
using Tour Builder.

What is Google Tour Builder?

Tour Builder is a new way to show our Mihimihi on as it shows the places around the world and where we come from using Google Earth. It let us pick our locations right on the map, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation.


We had to learn lots of new digital skills such as taking photo's, searching up images 
and taking screenshots on our devices, saving and uploading them onto Tour Builder 
plus many more!

Check out our awesome Mihimihi's

Just click on the box at the top right hand side (as per image below) and click 

'Play full screen' to view the Google Tour. Now sit back and enjoy!

Lucy S Tour                  Doris's Tour

Raymond's Tour                  Riley's Tour

Lily's Tour                      Nikheel's Tour

Grace's Tour                     Regan N's Tour

Marco's Tour                   Sophie's Tour

Sienna's Tour                      Chloe's Tour

Diamon's Tour                     Hamish's Tour

Regan S Tour                    Chadd's Tour

Leon's Tour                       Jerry's Tour

Mandy's Tour                      Kiralee's Tour

Sanajan's Tour                     Alex's Tour

Arad's Tour                        Kevin's Tour

Henry's Tour                      Lucy G's Tour

Oliver's Tour                      Evie's Tour

Team work and Problem solving skills...

Last week Room 11 did some team building games to learn to work collaboratively and get to know one another.

First they were asked to stand inside a circle of rope that was big enough for them all to fit inside of. Easy!

Then...

Mrs Nelson made the circle of rope smaller and they had to figure 

out a way of all standing and fitting inside the circle. 

This was getting tricky!

It took a bit of problem solving and some clever thinking 

but they got there in the end. Well done!

Human knots

Next we went outside and worked in small groups to try 

and un-knot ourselves from our eachother.

It took a couple of attempts of knotting and un-knotting ourselves but eventually we solved this problem and worked together.

Well done Room 11. You didn't give up and worked well together!

Meet the AWESOME Room 11!

Meet the awesome students of Room 11.

We are going to have an amazing year of learning, collaborating, leading and having lots of fun along our learning journey.

We are a class full of clever ideas, problem solvers and personality.

Bring on 2018!