Room 6 Samoan Sasa

Hi everyone,

Room 6 have been learning about Globalisation and as part of this we have been learning about dances from around the world. We have particularly enjoyed learning a Samoan Sasa. Enjoy watching our performance!

My swing

Today I brought in my swing that I built on Saturday 18 of November and showed it to Room 3. I built it out of Mecano. Mecano is parts and pieces that you can make stuff with like my swing. You use nuts and bolts to hold the pieces together. I got my set when I was four and I lost the instructions so I built it from my imagination.

Have you built anything like this before, can you share it with us?

By Nicolai

Pounamu

Today I brought in my Pounamu (Greenstones) to share with Room 3.

The Pounamu is a rock found in rivers in New Zealand it is mostly made into necklaces but can be made into many other things as well. The first people to use it were Maori. Greenstones are very rare and has never been found in the North Island which is why the Maori name for the South Island is Te Waipounamu.

Do you have any information about other types of rocks?

By Caitlin

Our Mathletics Star

Room 4 have been very motivated this week in mathletics and with the help of Olivia we were the 6th Top Class in New Zealand - Olivia was the No. 1 student in New Zealand!!

We were very proud and excited when we found out ....



Well done and congratulations Olivia - keep it up!!!
From Room 4 - Maths

Kid Pix African Drums

In room 4 we used kidpix to create our own African Drums, listen to the information that we have learnt about these drums.  Do you know any more facts about these drums?


by Sophie, Matthew, Sofia, Lily, Taegan and William
Room 4

African Drums

Did you know that in Africa drums are used to communicate ...

In year 3 we had a visit from Mohamed, an African drum master, he taught us how to play the drums and why they are important.   We hope you enjoy watching this video showing our morning with Mohamed.

Mrs P

Guy Fawkes Fun

This week in Room 3 we have been sharing our Guy Fawkes experiences. We wrote fantastic descriptions about the fireworks we saw and the fun we had with our family and friends. Here are some of our experiences.

We would love to hear what you did for Guy Fawkes. Please leave us a comment.

By Room 3

Our Pasifika Mama's!

We had some lovely Pasifika Mama's visit us last week and share their experiences of living in the Pacific Islands. We were shown how to weave a head band, then we practiced Pacific style dance. We had great fun and learned a lot. Check out our slide show....

Our Pasifika Mama's were from....
Niue
Cook Islands
Samoa
Hawaii
Tahita

Have you been to any of these countries and could share your stories with us?

Thanks
Room 2

Arty Thai Elephants

The Year 3's are learning about how the we connect to the world and the world connects to us. One of the cultures we are investigating is Thailand and we discovered that elephants play a significant part of Thai culture. Many of the artwork we found had golden elephants in them so our class decided to create some similiar art. We used gold crayons to draw our elephants and then we washed our pictures with dye.

We hope that you have enjoyed our art.
Can you share what you know about Thailand with us?
From Mr. Janse

Aboriginal Art

The year 3 children are learning about different cultural groups this term. Cultures around the world express their culture through visual art in different ways.

This week Room 1 were learning about the Aboriginal culture. This cultural group is apart of Australia. Their visual art is made up of 100's of dots. The people of this culture used to hide special messages and stories in their visual art. We painted our own aboriginal art.

Do you know how other cultural groups express their culture through visual art?

Thanks Room 1

History of Rugby

In Room 1 we created a timeline of the History of the Rugby World Cup using the website Dipity. Did you know that rugby was first played in New Zealand in 1870. Do you know what city it was played in?

From
Room 1

Rugby History on Dipity.

History of the Rugby World Cup

In room 6 we looked back 24 years to learn about the history of the rugby world cup. We have included information about every time the RWC was played. Listen to the information and leave us a comment.

Visualising - Rockin Rooster

In our reading groups we have been learning to visualise. This means to create a picture in our head about the story. We read the story Rockin Rooster and then each of us chose a different part of the story to visualise. Can you use these pictures we have created to visualise what might be happening in the story?

From

Ella, Taylor, Eloise (Room 3)

Famous New Zealand Discoverers

In year 3 we have been learning about discovery. We learnt about some famous New Zealand discoverers, the reason why we are learning about famous New Zealand discoverers is because our sports groups are named after these people. Can you guess who they are?

By Faith, Charlotte, Toby and James (Room 6)

We're going on a Treasure Hunt ....

Everyone loves a good treasure hunt. As part of our introduction to our Discovery learning this term we had a treasure hunt. Watch the photostory to see what fun we had discovering.

Thanks

Sota, Manon and Olivia (Room 2)

Red Cape and Dangerous

We are now in a different country. Here we say "hola" for hello, and "si" for yes. I am in front of a famous building, where a sports event happens. This sport is very popular in this country and involves a man with a cape and an animal. Can you guess the sport, and the country. The city we are in is a big city in the Southern part of this country (at the bottom on the map) and begins with the letter "S".

Hasta luego room 4 and year 3..

from William Mc

Our Enviro Tour

Come and see my amazing Enviro Tour because it really shows our wonderful environment. I hope you like it!

By Amie

My Creative Photo Story

We are an Enviro School so I have this photo story to show you. I wonder what your Enviro School looks like. Feel free to comment. I hope you like it.

By Ryan

Come On My Enviro Tour!

In Room 6 at Meadowbank School we have been learning about the environment. In term 1 we learnt about sustainability and how we care for the Earth. I hope you enjoy my photo story. Feel free to comment on how you can relate to this. By James

South Morningside Primary - Edinburgh

This week room 4 skyped Miss Fair from South Morningside Primary in Edinburgh. It was morning time for us and when Miss Fair moved her camera to the window it was pitch black. She is behind us in days.

Miss Fair is a year 4 teacher and she has a very different accent because she is from Scotland. It was a bit freaky because we were talking to someone on the other side of the world!!!! We talked all about our school. We explained to her that we are an Environmental School which means we take care of our gardens, have lots of trees, a worm farm, our gully and we work hard to be sustainable in this school. We have recycling bins and if we have any food scraps we put them in the worm bins and then they get taken to the worm farm by the year 3 worm farm monitors. The worms eat the scraps make worm poo and worm tea and we put it on our plants to keep healthy and strong.

We are going to make some videos for the kids at South Morningside so they can see what our school is like.

by Matthew E and Jonathon G
Room 4