Mrs C's Superheroes in Room 2 @ Rangikura

Wednesday, 6 September 2017

Someone in our class is learning Japanese!

One of our superheroes has a member of their family in Japan and has also spent time there, living there at one point. Her Mum is learning Japanese but she is also teaching it to Eve. I caught this very sweet moment where Eve was sharing with her peers what she has been learning. I just had to capture it and share.

Superheroes with Superpowers!

This week in Ruma rua the awesome superheroes have been learning how to write explanations. Some of us are writing our explanations for our political campaigns to persuade others to vote for us. Some of us are writing explanations about which pet is the best pet and why we think this.

Emily and Keira K worked so hard on their pet explanations that they wanted to share their writing with us. Ka pai korua!

Here they are being proud of their superpowers:

The class clapped for us.

Loving sharing her work with us.

Can you tell how proud of her writing she is?

Tuesday, 29 August 2017

We're Famous!

Here are the ever-gorgeous Room 2 Superheroes with the musicians from the NZ Orchestra. We were lucky they wanted a photo with us. Maybe they could tell we are the movers, singers and groovers of Rangikura... (shhh don't tell anyone else we said that!)

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.

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

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...