Yoga with Koka Wendy

Writing by Ataahua and Kowhai

Yoga with Koka Wendy

Today we did yoga with our new yoga teacher. Her name is Koka Wendy. She was fun to learn from. I liked laying back and relaxing. We had to close our eyes and focus on our breathing. She was really nice and she showed manaaki.By Ataahua Williams (Year 2)

In the afternoon  Koka Wendy came to show us some yoga. She taught us some things like the mouse pose and the rolling panda. She showed us how to be calm and relaxed. We sang Putiputi to Koka Wendy and all the Elgin kids said “Bye Koka Wendy!” By Kowhai Moa - Wharehinga (Year 3)

Numeracy: New Learning

Position and Orientation: 

Room 2 have been learning to how to describe (or talk about) the position of an object. We have been learning to use the correct words when talking about where something is. Check out our mahi and our videos!

Buddy Writing

Buddy Writing: 

Last week Room 2 worked with a Buddy to complete their stories, one person was the author, and the other was the illustrator. Check out some our mahi. 

Author: Fairlane and Illustrator: Jah

Today my mum went on a double Decker bus from Gisborne to Auckland. I am  happy because she is getting a new car. We had some pies for breakfast. My auntie and uncle came with me to have breakfast. By Fairlane

Author: Phoenyx    Illustrator: Swyft 

I made a dinosaur at school and I built it on my own. I was happy and I liked my
dinosaur. And I made the claws and I made the head. I made the tail and I
made the spikes. I made the mouth all by myself. 

Story By Phoenyx

Animation

This week Koka Amie taught us how to make our own animations using Google Slides. We picked it up super fast, experimented with different shapes and colours and even had a go at grouping and ungrouping our creations. Here are a few of our animations. The awesome dinosaur above was created by Phoenyx (Year 3)

Writing

Writing
Last week Room 2 had  a Mystery Kai Challenge. We were blindfolded and had to taste than guess the food. Some of our kai was yummy - like the chippies and chocolate sprinkles. Some of the food was yucky - like the Greek yogurt.  

Museum Visit

Museum Visit

Yesterday Room 2 visited the Museum. We were learning about the land before people arrived in Gisborne. We had to put birds, and creatures like bugs and insects in the right place on the landscape board. I had a brown moth. I liked searching for the taonga around the museum too. By Bruce

Yesterday we went to the museum. We had to wait outside because we were too early. We got to climb the trees, and I watched the water fountain. We also played tag. We went out the back and had oranges and a drink of water. My favourite part of our visit was searching for the taonga around the museum because I like exploring. By Dre

Winter Poems

Winter Poems

This week we created Winter Poems with Koka Amie. We had to think about the words we wanted to use, then drag and drop them into our poem. It was a little tricky. Next we had to use Loom to record ourselves reading our poems. 

Winter Slippers

Winter Slippers

My Oma (nan) knitted our class slippers so we can have warm feet when we're at school. She made 50 pairs, so my class got half and my sisters class got the other half. She has knitted slippers for other schools in Whakatane and Napier as well. I think my Oma is very kind because she makes slippers for other kids and wants them to be happy. By Nahkeishar Franklyn - Johns

Autumn Poems

Cyber Smart Mahi

Autumn Leaves Poetry:

This week we created Autumn Poems during our Cyber Smart lesson with Koka Amie. We had to "drag and drop" different words to form our poems. We also had to use Loom to record our poems, then create a link from our slide to our video. 

                       

  

Matariki

Matariki

Matariki stories

Last week we started looking at different Myths and Legends about Matariki. We had a go at retelling the stories in our own words. Here are a few of our stories...

Maui Slowed down the Sun. Tama - nui-te- ra, the sun, was angry and went to hide. Without the sun it got cold. It was winter. The people missed the sun. Matariki sang songs and brought back the sun. Everyone was happy. Matariki is a time when we remember and celebrate. By Swyft

Maui and his  brothers slowed Tama nui te ra .The sun was hurt and hid away. It was cold and all the people were sad. Matariki and her sisters sang songs and brought Tama nui te ra back. By Waiariki

Cyber Smart Mahi

Cyber Smart

Google Drawings - Profile Pictures.

Room 2 have been working on their profile pictures using Google Drawings. We are getting quite good at creating different shapes and inventing fun colour schemes. Check out our mahi!

Marae Noho

Marae Noho

Waihirere Marae

Last week Elgin School had a Marae Noho at Waihirere Marae. Every year we visit different marae around the region. We stayed overnight and learnt about Marae tikanga and matariki. We visited Waihirere Domain, and Eastwood Hill. Here are a few stories written by our students. 

  

Music

Recorder Lessons:

We have started up our recorder lessons for the term. We are learning to follow our music, play a B, A, G and blow softly on our recorders. We also learnt a new song called "A little Melody" - which was a bit tricky.

Cybersmart Monsters

Cybersmart lessons with Koka Amie.

We have been learning how use different tools in Google Drawings. We created our very own monsters using shapes, lines, patterns and colours. We also practiced using some of our short cuts to copy and paste -  to make sure our monster body parts remained the same, and to save time. Some of us recorded a short clip using Loom to talk about our monsters. 

Yoga

Morning Yoga

On Wednesday morning Room 2 were fortunate to have Koka Georgina's friend Aisling come in and teach us Yoga. We practiced a few yoga poses, breathing techniques and meditation. At the end of the session we felt relaxed and calm ready to start our day. We hope to see Aisling again.  Thank you

 

 

            

            

            

Production 2019

Kiwi As

Elgin School Production 2019

On Wednesday night we had our school production "Kiwi As". We performed to famous NZ songs, celebrating all things kiwi. Room 2 danced to "Puppet on a string" and Tumbling down". We dressed up as Buzzy Bees and Kiwi Fruit. Miss Poi's mum made our costumes.  

Here are some of our stories. 

Reading

Reading

Room 2 enjoy reading! For the past 2 weeks our classroom has been the library while our actual classroom has the ceiling replaced. We're lucky because we have lots of books to chose from. Today we had to pick a book, take a pictures then use the "voice typing" tool to talk about our book.

                                           

High Frequency Words

The younger students are practicing their high frequency words. They can read these and spell them super fast! 

New learning, new tools

Cyber Smart Lessons: Week 9

Practicing our new skills...

This week during our Cyber Smart Lesson, Room 2 learnt how to use the "Voice Typing"  tool in a Google Docs, as well as inserting a picture using the "Explore" tool. We practiced making copies and renaming our mahi. 

We are super lucky, and received 10 new Chromebooks - now everyone gets to work on a device at the same time. So for manaaki today, we used the Chromebooks and used voice typing to record "how we show manaaki".  We also found pictures of the beach (using the explore tool) and talked about ourselves and the beach. Check out some of our mahi. 

Manaaki for Christchurch

Be Kind

Today Room 2 wrote manaaki messages around our school, to spread kindness and show our aroha for the people of Christchurch. Lots of people walking through our school thought the messages were lovely. It was nice to see people smile and appreciate our messages. Kia Kaha Christchurch. 

 

Introducing Room 2 2019

Meet Room 2 2019

This term Room 2 are part of the Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu program where we are paired up another class from another town - and we visit and comment on each others blogs. Our blog buddies are Room 7 from Glen Taylor School in Auckland. Last week we had a look at their class blog and left a comment. We also used Google Earth to have a look at their school, it looks much bigger then our kura. This week it is their turn to look at our class blog and leave a comment, so we thought we would create a slide about us and the things we like about our school!

Our first Cybersmart Lesson

Cybersmart Lessons: The Forklift Hold 

Te Reo Lessons

Te Reo: Week 5 - 6

Room 2 and Room 1 have been having Te Reo lessons together for the past few weeks. We have been practicing using simple greetings and saying goodbye. Some of the Room 2 tamariki thought it would be neat to show their new learning by creating short video clips. 

First Post 2019

First Post 2019

Kia ora and welcome to Room 2's first blog post for the year! This year Room 2 is made up of year 2's, 3's and 4's. Altogether there are 25 of  us! Yesterday was the first time this year that we were all at school before the bell - Miss Poi was super happy.

For our manaaki lesson we talked about the importance of being at school every day.