Room 10 students hanging in there.

At the end of Day 1 with promise of further to come.

Welcome/Haere mai to Room 10 in 2015

Kia ora!

Haere mai and welcome to 2015 in Room 10's blog.

I am Ms Moratti and I am the class teacher for the year. I look forward to getting to know you.  

You are all in Nepia House, named after the great rugby and rugby league player, Georgie Nepia.  He set goals in order and aimed towards achieving them; we will be doing so as well.

This year promises to be full of action.  We have  camp coming up this term  at a new venue,  Weka Point.  I have heard lots of great things about it.  I will be going there soon to see what we will be doing.  There are lots of sporting and cultural opportunities coming up this year as well.  Plans are underway for fun learning activities, working alongside Room 5 and 8, who are also in Nepia House.

Room 10 will be a learning environment where both the students and teacher learn alongside eachother and together.  I have worked for 18 months as a digital teacher.  It is an environment I really enjoy working in.  

You will all be encouraged to GOTAR  (Go On Take A Risk) through out the year.  I am sure that you will all do so.

Kia Kaha.

Room 1's Recycled Art

As part of the sustainablity unit we have been carrying out, we decided to create pieces of art works by recycling materials we had at home or school.  We had two weeks of designing, creating, redesigning and recreating.

The results were amazing in that every group of individual came up with completely different ideas and outcomes.  They ranged from insects created with bike chains, owls, paper bag masks, insect light bulbs, cardboard tanks, branch mobiles, wire netting men and cats, the results were impressive.  See out blogs for our self assessments.

There was an incredible amount of learning and sense of satisfaction when the results were achieved.  Well done Room 1 students; you are all great sculpters/creaters/designers/makers.

Regan in action at the super Six Athletics competition

Regan and Georgia took part in the SuperSix Athletics competition with some great results.  Regan is stretching out to take off here in the relay race.

Regan, Jack and Georgia's Sustainability Rap.

Another of the class raps.  Sit back, listen and enjoy.  Consider what actions you need to do!

A Sustainability Rap by Sam, Thomas, Tom and Jessica

As part of our literacy and inquiry  work, the class wrote raps in small groups about the theme of sustainability.  They used Patatap as the music in the background of their rap.  The children had to create their  music to match with their rap.  This is the result of one group's efforts.

Our next steps are to come up with a cover page to add to the final presentation.