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!

DUFFY Theatre

Today was AWESOME!
We were very lucky today to have the Duffy Theatre come and share with us how reading is SO MUCH FUN. Today after lunch, the IA's and HF's met 3 very funny people Olive, Bob and Kolopa. They did all sorts of funny things in their show today. Their was Harry Potter, Maui and the Son, a few dinosaurs and we even saw Cleopatra too. We laughed so much today especially because Duffy was so funny. We all learnt that reading books helps us use our imagination and brings the books we read to life. Reading can also help us write better. Here are some photos of todays awesome show.

                                      Meeting the awesome crew; Olive, Bob and Kalopa            

No blinking incase we miss something ....

                          Duffy reading about Pyramids and Cleopatra all the way from Egypt

Siena reading about Harry Potter...

                                     Our very own fruit and vegetable trees from Rowandale

Strike Percussion

STRIKE PERCUSSION at ROWANDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL

They have come back to the awesome ROWANDALE School to perform for us once again. On Wednesday afternoon, our class, along with the rest of the School went into the hall to watch a performance by Strike Percussion. They were AMAZING! The three players were Mufasa, Ryan the Lion and T Man.
Some of our favourite parts of their show was when they called up Whaea Lois and Miss Robertson to battle each other on the drums. We thought they were both winners. We also thought that the fire part was good too. We wish them the best for the next shows and hope they come visit us again next year.

MOTAT Trip

MOTAT TRIP

The Year 3's have been very LUCKY to have visited the awesome MOTAT this Term. This Term, we have been learning about FLIGHT and the different forces that affect things that fly. We were very excited to go to MOTAT and to learn more about our topic this term. We played heaps of games in the IT area and some of us were able to through the mirror maze. It was so much fun. We want to thank our teachers and Whaea Lois for organising this fun trip for us. We also want to thank our parents who came to help and support us on the trip. Here are some photos of our fun day at MOTAT

"What's the matter Justis, dont you like this plane?"

"Where should we fly to guys?"

Room 12 learning about the forces

Learning more about the four forces with Barbara

"one, two, three, cheese guys"

Mata, Vaueli and Shleby playing with the magnetic wheels

Vanshika and Pauline playing with one of the gadgets of the future

Mata trying to call home haha

                                           Bo'Darrel, Judison and Sio being bus buddies.

This is our class waiting to jump on the bus.

DAY 2 CHALLENGE