For all of those out there who are frequently visiting social media, you will be familiar with the current 'Mannequin Challenge' which is ruling the internet!
With the music 'black beatles' - the challenge is to look like a mannequin while someone with a camera moves around the group.
Room 6 blogged their attempt yesterday and it looked awesome!
(Check it out on this link!)
We saw it this morning and decided to accept their challenge and take it up a level.
Here is 'A day in Room 8 - Mannequin Challenge!'
Room 8 Mannequin Challenge from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
Have a look and show us how you did in the challenge!
We are a class of Year 5 and 6 students from Tamaki Primary! Our teacher is Miss Morrison.
Showing posts with label Room 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Room 8. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Thursday, November 10, 2016
FLiP from PwC
For the past two weeks, the year 5 & 6 students of Tamaki Primary school have been lucky to take part in a Financial Literacy programme run by PwC.
Today we had visitors named Laura and Caroline come to our classroom and talk to us about how to we can save money and how to be trustworthy with money. I have learnt that people need to spend money wisely and don't get expensive things if you can't afford it. I also learnt if you can save money you should hide your money somewhere so that people to take it. To be trustworthy with money you should, pay back the money that you borrowed from your friend. The most important thing I learnt is that you should try your best at saving your money otherwise in the future when you are older you can buy whatever you want but only if you have the money to buy it.
During our second session we looked what 'Identity theft' is and how we can avoid it! We also discussed how to minimise risks with things like having insurance, alarms and being sensible with our belongings!
Here are some photos from our second session:
Today we learnt about insurance.
The thing that I liked about PWC is that they remind us like
We have had an awesome few sessions and we want to say a huge thank you to Laura and Caroline (and the PwC team) for coming in to teach us! We are going to try and take what we have learnt out into our communities.
Room 8 had the awesome coaches Caroline and Laura come and teach us for 4 modules.
In our first session we covered 'saving money' and 'being trustworthy'. We looked at how to save, why we should save and how we can be trustworthy with our money and other peoples. We also discussed who we should trust with our belongings and money.
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| Leilani's summary from session 1 |
Today we had visitors named Laura and Caroline come to our classroom and talk to us about how to we can save money and how to be trustworthy with money. I have learnt that people need to spend money wisely and don't get expensive things if you can't afford it. I also learnt if you can save money you should hide your money somewhere so that people to take it. To be trustworthy with money you should, pay back the money that you borrowed from your friend. The most important thing I learnt is that you should try your best at saving your money otherwise in the future when you are older you can buy whatever you want but only if you have the money to buy it.
- Cerenity's summary from session 1.
| Tevita's summary from session 1 |
Here are some photos from our second session:
Today we learnt about insurance.
It is a way of fixing a problem when something is broken of your life and they do that because you can pay a few dollars of money every month and help is on the way.
And that is why I was looking forward to insurance during this day with PWC.
- Edith's summary from session 2
The thing that I liked about PWC is that they remind us like
what we do when something is wrong then they tell you what
to do and I learned that your birth certificate,passport and your
driver licence are given by the government.
- Soane's summary from session 2.
We have had an awesome few sessions and we want to say a huge thank you to Laura and Caroline (and the PwC team) for coming in to teach us! We are going to try and take what we have learnt out into our communities.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Manaiakalani Film festival
This year for the Manaiakalani Film Festival - Room 8 worked together to create a film about safe hygiene!
The process took a long time, from brainstorming to planning, to filming and then editing! The best part about the whole thing was that our clever Room 8 students did it all!
We started by brainstorming what topic we wanted to film on - since we had just finished studying "safety starts with me" - the students decided they wanted to teach others how to have safe hygiene.
As a class, we then all picked our roles. Some students were script writers, others were editors, actors, directors and Miss Morrison was the person behind the camera!
The script writers decided they wanted to make safe hygiene something that other school students would want to participate in - that is where the idea of the 'dab' came in.
Room 8 worked really hard to put this altogether and we are very proud of it. We hope you enjoy our film - leave us a comment with some feedback and let us know if you will dab when you sneeze!
Manaiakalani Film Festival 2016 Room 8 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
The process took a long time, from brainstorming to planning, to filming and then editing! The best part about the whole thing was that our clever Room 8 students did it all!
We started by brainstorming what topic we wanted to film on - since we had just finished studying "safety starts with me" - the students decided they wanted to teach others how to have safe hygiene.
As a class, we then all picked our roles. Some students were script writers, others were editors, actors, directors and Miss Morrison was the person behind the camera!
The script writers decided they wanted to make safe hygiene something that other school students would want to participate in - that is where the idea of the 'dab' came in.
Room 8 worked really hard to put this altogether and we are very proud of it. We hope you enjoy our film - leave us a comment with some feedback and let us know if you will dab when you sneeze!
Manaiakalani Film Festival 2016 Room 8 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Kiwisport: Basketball!
This term at for Kiwisport we have had lessons on Basketball!
Once a week the coaches come in and teach us different Basketball skills and activities.
Here are some of the students reflections:
"We learned about BEEF.
Kiwisport T4 Basketball from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
Once a week the coaches come in and teach us different Basketball skills and activities.
Here are some of the students reflections:
"We learned about BEEF.
Different SKILLS.
Through the following week, basketball sessions had been going on.We learned many things such as the stand of BEEF and different SKILLS. The stands of BEEF is Balance, Eyes, Elbow and Flick or follow through. It has been great working with Malek and Marko, learning different SKILLS and also teaching others.Basketball is what Room 8 loves going to. In todays session, we have learned to do drills and jumpstops.
Thankyou Malek and Marko for these basketball sessions and skills."
"Today we we were put into to three teams my team and another team started well the other team sat beside the court. We never won a game but we worked as a team I got a goal but we still lost. In my group were my friend and another boy and the sport that we were playing was basketball,I like playing basketball because you can play one on one or two on two. "
Here is a short video of our Basketball lesson! We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed the lessons!
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Tuakana Teina Halloween!
On Monday we celebrated Halloween with our buddy class Room 1!
At Midday we joined classes in the art room and made three different types of crafts that related to Halloween. It was a great opportunity for our Room 8 students to show their leadership, manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and ako skills! In the afternoon we made Halloween masks in Room 1.
Here are some photos from the day.
At Midday we joined classes in the art room and made three different types of crafts that related to Halloween. It was a great opportunity for our Room 8 students to show their leadership, manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and ako skills! In the afternoon we made Halloween masks in Room 1.
Here are some photos from the day.
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Term 4 Kiwican
New term means new Kiwican lessons!
This term we are learning about Respect!
The class broke up into groups and competed by chanting out the school values!
Room 8 Kiwican 2016 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
Kiwican raps R8 2016 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
IMG_6314 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
Kiwican raps R8 2016 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
IMG_6314 from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.
It was a great session and we had the opportunity to make some raps about the values. We can't wait for the rest of the terms learning!
Friday, August 26, 2016
Black-Out Poetry
Friday Writing in Room 8!
Today we learnt about black-out poetry we have been given a page from a book to do this you will need a page from a book and a vivid and all you do is pick some words that you want and you cross out the other words then at the finish it would look like a sentence. Here are some pictures to show what it looks like at the end.
- From Soane
Today we learnt about black-out poetry we have been given a page from a book to do this you will need a page from a book and a vivid and all you do is pick some words that you want and you cross out the other words then at the finish it would look like a sentence. Here are some pictures to show what it looks like at the end.
- From Soane
A huge thank you to Room 6 for letting us use your creative task!
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| Akanesi's work |
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| Troy's work |
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| Faka'ata's work |
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| Cerenity's work |
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| Soane's work |
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| Hamish's work |
Amazing poetry Room 8!
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Room 8 Olympics Quiz
Today class we had a OLYMPICS QUIZ we had to get in our Athletics houses it was FUN.
All teams were happy because we got lots of house points and it was tricky because we had hard questions to answer! The HARDEST question was how many countries in the southern hemisphere have hosted the games.
By: TEVITA AND MICHAEL.
Here are some of the photos from today.
It was a great competition - where each house won points not only for correct answers, but also for showing teamwork, supporting one another and having great attitudes!
The final scores were:
before the answers were calculated were:
Alamein: 34
Tobruk: 30
Tripoli: 21
Benghazi: 30
Leaving Alamein as the winner! The house points will be added to the classroom board tomorrow but congratulations to all students for such an awesome effort!
Monday, August 8, 2016
Kiwisport Badminton
Today Room 8 had Badminton with the Kiwisport team!
It was a great session with Kevin where we learnt different ways of holding and gripping the racket. We learnt the forehand grip, the frying pan grip and a few others!
Here are some photos of Room 8 having a practice at hitting the shuttles.
It was a great session with Kevin where we learnt different ways of holding and gripping the racket. We learnt the forehand grip, the frying pan grip and a few others!
Here are some photos of Room 8 having a practice at hitting the shuttles.
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| Tevita having a rally with Kevin |
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| Stephney hitting the shuttle. |
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| Wiriana trying to catch the shuttle! |
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| Tevita hitting the Shuttle in motion! |
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| Room 8 listening to Kevin's explanation |
We are already looking forward to next weeks session!
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Biking and Buddy Time
Hi my name is Troy. I am in room 8, we did biking yesterday with our teacher Miss Morrison. Me and my friends were having races on the bikes. I was on the grey bike, the biggest one out of them.
On Wednesday room 8 was drinking milk ''until room 1 came in''. My brother is in room 1 Rylan I had a task to do. I draw the shapes and cut them out and Rylan tells me what to draw and he sticks it on to the blank paper. It was fun.
Written by Troy
On Wednesday room 8 was drinking milk ''until room 1 came in''. My brother is in room 1 Rylan I had a task to do. I draw the shapes and cut them out and Rylan tells me what to draw and he sticks it on to the blank paper. It was fun.
Written by Troy
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| Nyse, Toma, Michael, Aumau, Demi and Tevita |
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| Leilani, Owyn and Taonga. |
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| Mahara, Wiriana, Troy & Rylan |
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| Cerenity, Arizona, Nesi, Moana, Constance & Hevani |
Class Treaty and our Pepehas!
Tena Koutou!
Today marks day four of Term 1 and the class is settling into Room 8 nicely.
On Wednesday as a class we learnt about what a 'Treaty" is by listening to the "Tree Hut Treaty" story. We then discussed how we could use the idea of a Treaty in the classroom. We split off into groups and brainstormed good 'promises' we can make to each other to make sure our classroom is a great place to learn. We then combined our ideas and came up with Room 8's Classroom Treaty!
Room 8 promises to...
1. Be respectful and kind to everyone
2. Help others
3. Show our school values
4. Respect the environment
5. Listen to the person talking
6. Believe in ourselves!
On Thursday we practiced some Te Reo by writing out our Pepehas.
"First miss Morrison wrote her Pepeha on the board so room 8 can write theirs too. Once room 8 finished their Pepeha all of our writings became colourful and beautiful because we did different kinds of Pepeha about our Whanau and iwis. Below is my Pepeha" - Written by Constance
What an awesome first week we have had, lets keep it up room 8!
Ka Kite!
Today marks day four of Term 1 and the class is settling into Room 8 nicely.
On Wednesday as a class we learnt about what a 'Treaty" is by listening to the "Tree Hut Treaty" story. We then discussed how we could use the idea of a Treaty in the classroom. We split off into groups and brainstormed good 'promises' we can make to each other to make sure our classroom is a great place to learn. We then combined our ideas and came up with Room 8's Classroom Treaty!
Room 8 promises to...
1. Be respectful and kind to everyone
2. Help others
3. Show our school values
4. Respect the environment
5. Listen to the person talking
6. Believe in ourselves!
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| We made cut outs of our hand shapes and signed them to form the 'leaves' of our 'Tree-ty'! |
On Thursday we practiced some Te Reo by writing out our Pepehas.
"First miss Morrison wrote her Pepeha on the board so room 8 can write theirs too. Once room 8 finished their Pepeha all of our writings became colourful and beautiful because we did different kinds of Pepeha about our Whanau and iwis. Below is my Pepeha" - Written by Constance
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| 'My Pepeha' by Constance |
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| 'Pepeha' by Cerenity |
Today we had another practice of our writing with Quick Write and Wordladder activities. Everyone worked so well, so we went outside for some games afterwards to give ourselves a brain break!
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| Quick Write activity, students working hard! |
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| Bullrush! |
Ka Kite!
Welcome to Room 8 for 2016!
Kia Ora Koutou Katoa!
Welcome to Room 8's 2016 Blog!
I hope you have all had a restful break and are excited to get back into learning! My name is Miss Morrison, its my first year at Tamaki Primary and Room 8 is my first class. I am so excited about what the year will bring and have so much faith in the ability of my amazing students!
Tuesday the 2nd of February marked the First day of Term 1, and the first school day of 2016.
The day started with an amazing Powhiri and welcome by the school and Kapa Haka group.
We then returned to the classroom and got to meet most of the students and Miss Morrison (Room 8's new teacher!).
Our first day was filled with Icebreakers and 'getting to know you' activities. We also had a class discussion about how we can show Respect to those who are talking and to our peers when we are sharing ideas.
Its already looking to be an exciting year with a class full of awesome students!
Lets go 2016!
Welcome to Room 8's 2016 Blog!
I hope you have all had a restful break and are excited to get back into learning! My name is Miss Morrison, its my first year at Tamaki Primary and Room 8 is my first class. I am so excited about what the year will bring and have so much faith in the ability of my amazing students!
Tuesday the 2nd of February marked the First day of Term 1, and the first school day of 2016.
The day started with an amazing Powhiri and welcome by the school and Kapa Haka group.
We then returned to the classroom and got to meet most of the students and Miss Morrison (Room 8's new teacher!).
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| Students working through the 'Room 8 Student Search'! |
Its already looking to be an exciting year with a class full of awesome students!
Lets go 2016!
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| Our first weekly quote of the year! |
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Learning how to Sketch our Faces!
This term, Room 8 are learning how to sketch our faces with realism, using 6B Art pencils.
Here are our first drafts! Enjoy having a look!
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