Rūma whā at Bledisloe School.

ANZAC Day Pride

Room 4 looked into what ANZAC Day is and what it means to New Zealanders' and Australians in Term 2. We used the story of ANZAC Ted to help us learn more about this important day. Below is a link to the youtube video of ANZAC Ted, for your enjoyment.

We were lucky enough to be involved in our ANZAC ceremony as well. Maia was asked to say the Ode of Remembrance in front of the whole school, she did a great job!

During our inquiry into ANZAC, I also brought into school my Grandad's War Medals. These were shared with the whole class and gave students' a little more understanding of the importance of this day.

Now for our new fence! The Middle School decided to have an ANZAC themed front fence, which looked great. Each class produced a cardboard piece, at the end; the fence looked amazing.

ANZAC Ted - Click on this link to watch the ANZAC Ted film.

Our cardboard display that was put on the front fence.

Our AWESOME soldier art!

The ANZAC Ted book that we absolutely recommend!

Back The Black Caps

Room 4 decided that our school needed a 'fence' supporting our Black Caps.

We decided to lead the school by producing a HUGE banner with "Back The Black Caps" on it, and decided that every classroom could produce a mini poster to go with the banner...and what a HIT this 'fence' was!

Room 4 were hugely proud of what we produced, with help from our Buddy Class Room 14!

Below is a picture of our awesome banner:

Maui and The Sun

Last Term Room 4 was intrigued by the Maori Myth: Maui and the Sun. We watched a youtube video of the myth and were amazed by how effective the sun (ra) looked in the video. So we decided to do some artwork to add to our learning.

Below is the link to the video we watched for your enjoyment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbM3PwcGi0g

Below are some pictures of our finished art:

Buddy Time with Room 14

Room 4 have some awesome 'buddies' at Bledisloe. Room 14 is our Buddy class, we try and do lots of things together where the students learn from each other; enforcing the tuakana teina theory, where older students teach younger students.

We have found that Room 4 respond incredibly well to having older buddies within the school. At morning tea and lunch time they often find their buddy for a chat and vice versa.

So far this year we have done crafts, T-Ball, ICT fun and many other activities with our buddies.

Below are just some of the pictures of what we have been up to with Room 14:

Wednesday's with Hoani

Wow! We are super lucky to have Hoani at our school. Every Wednesday Room 4 looks forward to our weekly visit from Hoani when we perform our school song and other waiata's and also when we learn some new Te Reo.

We absolutely love 'Hoani Time' in Room 4 and would love to share with you one of our videos...more to come soon!

Have a little listen below :)

Moteo Marae

Earlier on in the year we were extremely lucky to visit the Moteo Marae. We were able to put a lot of what Hoani teaches us into practice and performed many of our waiatas to people in our community.
We had a great day filled with lots of activities and lots of FOOD! (Which the kids all said was their favourite part about the day...of course!) By the time we got back to school the kids were all extremely tired and were in need of some deserved sleep!
Below is a picture of us waiting for our next craft activity to begin: