Week 2

Room 2 has had some changes this week - we are now the Year 1 class with Miss Poi and Koka Ringi. The Year 2 tamariki have moved into Room 4 with Koka Kararaina. So our class has gone from 28 kiddies to 13, but that won't last for long as we have 3 new students starting soon.

Term 3

Term 3 : Week 1

Room 2 tamariki were super excited to be back at school. Here we are getting into our learning, and showing manaaki by being our best. 

Printing the Letter P

Kia ora koutou,
In Room 2 we practice our printing every day.  Today, we were practising the letter P!
We were all listening very carefully to make sure that we were creating careful letter p's, starting in the right place and remembering to start right at the top for the capital P, and halfway down for the lowercase letter p.

Can you see how well we were concentrating, by looking at our photos?

Our Bubble

Last week we created some Bubble Art after reading the book "Bubbles". Later on we talked about the people who were in our bubbles during lock down, and why it was important to keep our bubbles safe and small. We drew pictures of our lock down bubbles too.

Week 7: Printing our letters

This week in Room 2, we are learning all about printing our letters. Today when Kōka Amie came to see us, we were carefully practising in our printing books.

Look how much wonderful learning we are doing back here at school in Term 2!

Maths

Counting with Hinekehu

Today we started our morning with some maths. Check out Hinekehu with her learning. She is learning to count objects, write her numbers and identify her numbers up to 20.

Anzac Day

Anzac Art with Acacia and Braxton 

Tomorrow is Anzac Day, however it will be commemorated much differently to what we are used too, as New Zealand is still in lockdown.

Acacia (Room 1) and her sister Braxton (Room 2) created beautiful poppies to celebrate Anzac Day. Their mum Bridget, talked to them about Anzac Day and asked what the day means to them:

Acacia said: "It’s celebrating Anzac Day".

Braxton said “Its mummy’s birthday, and we remember when New Zealand and Australia went to war and died”.

Names and the Alphabet

We have decorated our name plates and we put them in the right place in the alphabet.

Maths

We are leanring how to count and write our numbers.
We do this every day.

Manaaki Pockets

We work hard to show Manaaki all the time.

When we show Manaaki we get a ticket and put it in our pocket.
When we get 5 tickets we can choose from 
the Manaaki box in the office.

The Manaaki box has got all sorts of things in it like pyjamas, beanies, socks writing things and lotos and lots of books.

What would you choose?

Our Manaaki pockets

Here is a Manaaki ticket ready to put in the back of the pocket

The Manaaki box

Introducing Room 2

Meet Room 2.

We are year 1 & 2 learners at 

Te Kura o Erekana | Elgin School 

in Turanganui-a-Kiwa | Gisborne

Aotearoa | New Zealand

Elgin School at Fitness

Here is our whole school at fitness this morning.

We are moving to music and we follow the leaders at the front.

Can you count how many of us there are?

We have 3 classes at our school.

How many classes do you have at your school?

Art

For the past few weeks we have been working on our self portraits using different materials. First we used pencil to draw our faces, then we used pastels to add colour and detail, finally we used coloured card for our hair. This is our first piece of art for the year.

Fitness

Everyday the whole school does fitness together.

On this day we had stations that we rotated around.

When we move between stations we have to line up and 

walk together as one line.

Sometimes we do moving to music together.

What do you do to keep fit?

School Pepeha

We have a pepeha for our school.

Do you have one?

Can you see our school name in Te Rep Māori?

Manaaki

We work really hard at showing Manaaki at our school and in our class.

Here's how we do it.

What do you do that is like us?

Morning Greetings

Everyday we start our day together with Karakia and singing.

We have lots of favourite songs.

We are learning how to say the days of the week 

in the right order by singing a song.

What songs do you like signing?

First Post

Room 2: 2020

Kia Ora whanau and welcome to our first blog for the year. We will try and post blogs, and share our learning every week. So make sure you check out our Blog Page!