Jelly Beans Week 2

Wednesday couldn't have come any quicker! That's how excited we were to attend our next session of Jelly Beans. As we walked into the hall, we noticed that Tups wasn't our instructor it was someone else. Her name is Ruth. She is a recorder expert and she was there to teach us how to play the recorder.  We started the session by singing and dancing to the song we learnt last week "clap your hands". Then, we were given a recorder each where we learnt how to blow gently on the recorder to make the sound and how to play the notes 'a' and 'b'. If we blew too hard, it made a squeaky sound, so we had to learn how to gently blow on the recorder. It was a little hard, but so much fun! Next we created a rhythm with other percussion instruments. We cannot wait for our next session.

This is us singing and dancing to "clap your hands"

"We are such good dancers!"

"This is us learning how to gently blow on the recorder"

"We are learning how to play 'a' on the recorder"

"We are experts on the recorders! Don't you think so Ruth....."

Thanks for reading todays blog. Come back to find out what we will be learning nest week at our Jelly Beans session. We can't wait!

NIUEAN Language Week

Hi Everyone,
This week has been too fun for Room 12. We especially enjoyed today! We started the day with the Whakatau- welcoming our guests from around the world.
We then made our weaving for the Niuean Assembly after morning tea. We wanted to make ours a little bit different so we were each given a petal and had to weave through it. We had different coloured petals and then put it together to make a big flower.
After morning tea, we were lucky enough to have a guest come speak to us about Niue. She is the former Miss Niue 2011 and her name is Sandra. After her speech she did a dance for us and it was very pretty. Next, Mr Vasau spoke and performed another Niuean item for us as well. We thought that was amazing! Finally, our weaving was judged by Miss Niue and guess who won??????......

WE DID!!! According to Miss Niue, our weaving piece was the best (but we think everyone did an awesome job!)

For the winning class, Miss Fuataga presented us with a spear that was gifted to the school by her family! TAHNK YOU MISS FUATAGA and FAMILY!

Here are a few pictures from today's adventures... enjoy!

Here is our awesome Principal being proud of his culture,

Here is the beautiful Miss Niue 2011 performing

Hamyne and Shelby with Miss Niue and her cousin.

The shooting All Stars celebrating the beautiful Island of NIUE!

Jelly Beans

Earlier this week, we were able to have our first few sessions of Jelly Beans! Man was it fun. Were learnt what rhythm is and the different ways we can create rhythm. We also were able to play together as a class using different percussion instruments such as the tambourine, drums and triangle. Our awesome instructor is Tups and she kept us laughing the whole time. We can't wait for our next Jelly Beans Session! Here are some of our photos from this week.

We loved creating a rhythm as a class

It's the tambourine groups turn.

Here's Tups and she is teaching us that we can create rhythm by using the syllables in our name.

-Stay tuned for more Jelly Bean adventures with Room 12!

Ciao!