PRIDE Awards

Congratulations Neena and Blake. You are both super learners who work very hard in Room 2. Great job!

Art Exhibition

We know that weaving is very important to the Maori people. They make useful things like bowls and kete by weaving flax, They also weave many different materials to make things that are decorative.

There are lots of well-known weavers in New Zealand and one of the most accomplished is Reihana Parata.

We were inspired to do our own weaving in Room 2.

These pictures show what we did to make our awesome art.

PRIDE Award

And congratulations too, to Malachi for being our latest Parkvale PRIDE award winner. You are a super learner in Room 2 as well as a kind and caring friend to all of us. Great job!

PRIDE Award

Good job, Josh.

Congratulations on getting this week's PRIDE award for doing your Personal Best work and being a kind and caring friend in Room 2.

Poppy Came to Room 2

Here are some of our stories about Poppy...

Grace brought Poppy to room 2. She jumped on us. She had a cute tail. She had a beard and she had fur under her tummy.
By Kaden


"Woof". Grace's tiny dog came to visit Room 2. She is grey and white. She is snuggly and she smelled me. She has floppy ears and she felt soft like a pillow. She has some short fur under her tummy. I like Poppy and she likes me.
By Sophie

Grace brought her puppy to school.Poppy is really hairy and she looked like she had a moustache. She is very cute.
By Deklyn


Grace's puppy came to school to Room 2. The puppy's name is Poppy. She was snuggly and warm. She was jumping on us. Poppy's claws were scratchy. They were scratchy on me.
By Izrael

Thank you for visiting Room 2, Poppy

Term 3 PRIDE Award

Congratulations Grace. You are our first PRIDE award winner for Term 3. What a super learner you are in Room 2. well done.

What Am I?

PRIDE Award

Woohoo Drew. Congratulations on winning the PRIDE award this week for all of the hard work and super learning you are doing in Room 2.

Kapa Haka

Well done Neena. Your performance in the Iti Kapahaka was great. The Room 2 children are proud of you...

PRIDE Award

Great job, Holly. Congratulations for getting the PRIDE award this week. You are an awesome learner in Room 2.

Reduce!

We are trying very hard to reduce, recycle and reuse in Room 2 and Manuka Hub.

 Woohoo! Look at Drew's and Kaiden's lunchboxes today...not one single thing to go in the rubbish.

 You are really helping to solve our rubbish problem.
Thanks Drew and Kaiden.

PRIDE Award

Good job, Chaelyn. You got the PRIDE award this week for having fun and doing your personal best to be a super learner in Room 2.

Reducing Waste

Josh's mum brought a bucket into Room 2. We are going to put all our food scraps in there to feed to Josh's two little piglets. What a great idea to reduce our waste!

Thanks Josh and Josh's mum!

Player of the Tournament

Yay! Well done Kaiden. You got this awesome trophy for trying so hard at your soccer tournament at the weekend. Congratulations.

Mushroom Tasting Time

It is time...let's pick the mushrooms and cook them up.

We picked them carefully and washed them to get all the dirt off. Then we put grated cheese, parsley and spring onions on top.

Last of all we baked them in the oven and abracadabra...

They looked scrumptious and smelled delicious!
Most of us had a taste and liked them. Mr Dickson loves mushrooms so we shared some with him too.

I think he likes it :)

Thanks Addy and Addy's mum for this great mushroom growing and tasting experience.

Joshua's Pets

Here are Joshua's family pets.

These oinky piglets are little girls named Barbie and Que

            Josh's cute little kitten is called Sandy

BIG Mushrooms

Wow! Look at our super-sized mushrooms now. We will have to pick them very soon.

Learning our alphabet letters and sounds

We made these pic collages so we could practise our letter names and their sounds. Have a go at them all...

Player of the Day Awards

Congratulations Shikane and Chaelyn. Both of you got the player of the day award last weekend.

Shikane wrote a great story to tell us about his game.

'I got the trophy for The Player of the Day. I got a try. I ran fast. Ms Gilmore is putting a photo on the blog.'

And here it is...

And well done Chaelyn...

Mushrooms

Wow! Look at our bucket of beautiful, brown, button mushrooms.

Addy and her mum gave them to us, to grow in Room 2.

Do you like mushrooms? How about sharing some of your favourite recipes with us.

PRIDE Award

Well done Lily Antonio. You got a PRIDE Award for doing your personal best to be a super learner in Room 2.

What makes 5?

We have been doing +s to make 5...

Landfill Trip Stories

Read some of our great writing about our trip...

Big Machines
We went to the landfill and we saw a special crusher. We saw heaps of rubbish and we saw some trucks. We saw a digger and we learned about recycling.  By Kaden


The Dump
We went to the landfill dump with Room One. There was 'fart gas'and there was a crusher. We went on a bus. There was lots of rubbish blowing around and it smelled stinky. We had to wear jackets.  By Neena


The Crusher
I liked the crusher. It had spiky wheels and it crushed the rubbish. The 'fart gas' was smelly.  By Shikane


Landfill Trip
Yesterday we went to the landfill. We saw seagulls and they were flying over all the rubbish. The smell was disgusting - it was 'fart gas'. We saw valleys and mountains. They were so big. It was sunny and we needed hats. We went in a bus. It was a little bit wobbly. Neena and me sat in the front  we were excited. There was a swimming pool but we were not allowed to swim in the pool.  By Anoop

* 'fart gas' is what the people at the landfill call the methane gas. We learned that they now turn it into electricity and it makes enough for 2,000 houses.

PRIDE award winner

Good job, Kaden. You always do your personal best to be a great learner in Room 2.

Room 2s Trip to the Landfill

We learned so much about recycling on our trip. I hope we can try to do more recycling at school and at home now. Have a look at some of the things we did. Landfill Trip on PhotoPeach

ANZAC Assembly

Thank you Kaiden (from Room 2) and Bowen (from Room 19 ) for carrying this wreath at our Anzac Day celebration. We thought about all the brave people who have fought to keep New Zealand a safe place to live.

PRIDE Award

And congratulations to Kaiden, our latest PRIDE award winner. You are a super learner in Room 2...

PRIDE

Congratulations Sophie Maddaford. You got a PRIDE award for being a great learner and a kind and caring girl in Room 2. What a Superhero!

A visitor in Room 2

We were all very excited when Ms Gilmore's little grandson, Aiden, came to visit us in Room 2. He is 3 years old and he lives in Osaka, Japan. He loved meeting all of the Room 2 lovelies and joining in some play with them...

Max and His Pets

Here is Max with his cat, Bella and his puppy, Hunter. What a lucky boy to have such gorgeous pets, Max...

PRIDE Awards

Congratulations to our first two PRIDE award winners. Izrael and Anoop, you are both Superhero learners in Room 2

And here are all the PRIDE award winners...

Discovery

We had our first Discovery for Manuka Hub today. There was construction and building going on in Room 2. What a lot of fun...