Room 9 term 2 2015 Class Newsletter

Sensational Sounds - Our Observations

Sound experiments

In Term 1, we learnt about sound. we made some observations on  how is sound produced,how sound travels and reaches our ears. we drew pictures and labels to show our observations about sound.

Dancing grains - what happens when you tap the bowl with grains - what did we observe?  - we saw the grains dancing and moving - the grains VIBRATED.
We learnt a new word - Vibration

Balloon Screamer

Musical coat hangers

"I banged a metal coat hanger tied with a string. I could hear the ringing sound in my ear. It sounded like a bell ringing."

Musical wine glass  - "It sounded like an echo in a cave."

String telephone- 
"I could hear my friend talking on the other side."

Room 9 Painting Self Portraits

In Week 7, we painted our self portraits. We mixed three different colours to get a unique colour to paint faces in our self portraits. We learnt how to hold a paint brush and used strokes to paint our pictures. 

 

INTERESTING INSTRUMENTS

Room 9 has been learning about sounds all around us. we looked at various interesting instruments, named them and made our own interesting instruments using things we collected from home.

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ROAD SAFETY - with Constable Cam

We started our term learning about Road Safety. 

Constable Cam visited us and took us out to show how to cross a road and be safe on the road.
We learnt about the signs and markings on the road.
We created a verb story as a part of our IOL -
We stopped on the footpath. We looked to left and looked to the right. When there's no cars coming, we walked safely to cross the road. 

"Constable Cam, there's no cars coming , I think we can cross the road now,. Let's walk across."

      


< Holding hands and walking on the footpath. 

< Crossing road with an adult.

"There's no cars coming our from the driveway, let's walk now"

< Looking for cars - Sneaky driveways










Car seat belt - we went for a ride in constable Cam's Police car. 

"Make it click, put on your seat belt and be safe."

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Celebrating Tongan Language week

Last term we learnt about Tongan Culture and a special Tongan drink called Vaiseaine to Celebrate Tongan language week.

Scroll down to see pictures below we took when we made Vaiseaine

   

Celebrating Cook Island week

Kiaorana To All 
Celebrating Cook Island week
Making of Tivaevae in Room 9 
We made a Tivaevae - Cook Island quilt.We used coloured paper and we each made small piece of Cook Island pattern. We put all our patterns together to make our own Cook Island quilt. 

We learnt a few Cook Island words like- 
Mumu - skirt 
Tutu, Titi, - lay around the head and neck
Umu - type of cooking - cooked underground using banana leaves
Kete,- basket making 
 kia orana (hello)

aere ra (goodbye)

pe’ea koe? (how are you?)

mama (Mum)

metua (Dad)

Sapati - day they go to church (Sunday)

We loved making the Cook Island Quilt. 

Making Tivaevae in Room 9

    

Celebrating Maori Language week

Tena Koutou to all!!

Celebrating Maori Language week 
We started term 3 with the celebration of Maori Language week. We made Poi's and did a poi dance. We learnt about the Maori culture and the significance of picking up the green leaf when welcoming new visitors. We also learnt about the Koru pattern and its significance in Maori Culture. 
We learnt about Hongi and Hangi. We celebrated the Maori Language week by doing various activities by going to other classes. It was great fun. 

Making Poi's using polystyrene foam pieces in plastic bags

Dancing with Poi's to the tune - E rere taku poi