Inquiry - Yoga

For our inquiry this term, we have been learning about Indoor Hobbies. Indoor hobbies are hobbies you would normally do inside. We have been trying different kinds of indoor hobbies as a class. 

Today we learnt about yoga. We learnt about the different poses and had a go at some yoga. We learnt about why some people do yoga.

Cow Pose


Dog Pose


Table Pose

Child Pose



Then we got into groups and wrote and drew about what we learnt and what we like about yoga.



Lolita, Daniel, Phoenix, Evan



Verzhyn, Mark, Sarah, Jahna



Sonny, Azariah, Savannah, Reihaneh



Elisiva, Viliamu, I'olani, Lagitupu

Snorkelling - Cook Island Language Week

This term our inquiry is about Recreation and Entertainment. We are learning about different kinds of hobbies. This week is Cook Island Language Week so we had a look at hobbies in the Cook Islands. 

One hobby that people do in the Cook Islands is snorkelling. The Cook Islands have lots of nice beaches and tropical fish so people like to snorkel and look at the tropical fish.

We made our own tropical fish. We drew them with pastels then we cut them out and stuffed them with newspaper. Then we decorated our snorkels. 

Check out Room 2 snorkelling in the Cook Islands!

Cook Island Language Week

Today we had Tuakana/Teina time with our buddy class Room 8 and we made Cook Island 'ei's! An 'Ei is a floral headband or necklace that is usually worn during celebrations. We made the headband kind. Our buddies helped us decorate flowers and glue them onto our headpieces. We love tuakana/teina time!

Food Tasting Festival

Our Inquiry this term is Fuelled for Life and we have been learning about healthy eating. Room 2 has been learning about why fruits and vegetables are healthy for us.

We had our school's Food Tasting Festival last night and Room 2 made smoothies for people to taste.

We decided in our vitamin/mineral groups what we wanted to put in our smoothies.

The Vitamin A group made smoothies that had a lot of vitamin A with carrots and mangos.

The Vitamin B1 group made smoothies that had a lot of vitamin B1 with broccoli, orange and pomegranates.

The Vitamin C group made smoothies that had a lot of vitamin C with strawberries and kiwifruit.

The Calcium group made smoothies that had a lot of calcium with kiwifruit and oranges.

Lolita, I'olani and Chicago

Chicago, Lolita, I'olani, Elisiva

We showed the pamphlets we made about our vitamin/mineral. We read our pamphlets to the visitors.

I'olani reading her pamphlet

Sarah reads her pamphlet to Lolita's Mum

Our healthy eating video playing on the TV

This is the video that we made about Healthy Eating that we played on the TV for the visitors!

Check out our video:

Thank you to all the visitors who came to visit Room 2. We enjoyed sharing our learning with you!

Tuakana/Teina - Healthy Eating

We had Tuakana/Teina day today and we made some artwork about our inquiry with our buddies. Our buddies helped us find healthy food and cut them out of magazines. We made colourful stomachs and glued our healthy food onto our stomachs. We glued our faces onto the stomachs and made arms and legs. We had a lot of fun making these with our buddies!

Danielle, Delontaye, Viliamu

Reihaneh

Dontay, Azariah, Sofele

Elisiva, Lolita

Walsamon, Phoenix, Ruby, Sarah, I'olani

Matariki

We have been learning about Matariki. Matariki is the name for stars that tell us when it is the Maori New Year. We read lots of different stories about Matariki and we made some Matariki artwork and wrote our own story about Matariki stars. 

Prosyden

I'olani

Sofele

Lolita

Chicago

Sterling

Azariah

Sarah

Delontaye

Dontay

Viliamu

Ruby

Kiwisport - Taekwondo

This term we learnt Taekwondo for KiwiSport. We learnt how to kick and punch. For our last session we got to break boards! Everyone had a go!

Ralphina kicking

Reihaneh kicking

Lolita breaks a board

Sterling breaks a board