We Love Art!

During the week we created spring gardens in response to a spring poem we had read.  We used the language clues in the poem to draw what the poem would look like visually.  We used an art channel on YouTube to find out how to draw the bug that we wanted in our spring garden. 

We told Mrs C we loved it so much that on Friday afternoon she let us have free drawing time.  This meant we could choose something we wanted to learn how to draw and use the tutorials to learn the steps to create it.  Mrs C took some photos of us all hard at work. 

The only criteria Mrs C gave us was that it had to be a challenge...we couldn't choose something that we knew would be easy.

Room 2 Exercised Their Rights to a Voice

Today in Room 2 we particpated in the voting process, here is a little video of how we got on:

Interestingly the class were very strong in their views of which political party they felt would best represent them and also who should represent the Mana Electorate.

The NZ Orchestra

Yesterday we had the NZ Orchestra come to visit, they had the brass and percussion instruments with them.  Here is a video of what we learned, which instruments we had and how we got to join in.  We loved our time with them and got inspired by the talented musicians that we spent time with:

Learning about Place Value in the HQ

We have been looking at representing numbers with base 10 blocks which help us to understand place value and how numbers can be made and broken.  Mrs C taught us a new game called 'READY, STEADY, SKILLS' and we really enjoyed playing boys vs girls.  This is how you play the game:

Mrs C chooses two students to 'verse' each other.
They have to turn their back to the whiteboard until Mrs C says 'READY, STEADY, SKILLS' 
Mrs C writes a number in the range 0-100 on the whiteboard then she says 'READY, STEADY, SKILLS'
The two students turn and using the base 1-0 blocks make the number as quickly as they can.  The first one finished gets the points.  

Here are a few photos of the kids enjoying this new game:

Rhys and Jorja race to build their number...

Now it's Matthias and Keira's turn!

Aniyah and Leonard face off.

Duffy Theatre

We are so lucky at Rangikura, not only do we get free (yes you heard right...free) books every term but we also get the Duffy theatre come and perform.  This recent show was about a supergirl who was trying to save the world from global warming.  She enlisted Duffy's help because she read things but the letters got all jumbled up so instead of trees she planted flower seeds.  Mrs C has put together a short video so you can see what the show was all about...

Room 2 - Beauty and the Beat

Today Room 2 stole the stage - check out our moves!