Damani's Birthday Surprise

It was Damani's birthday and she got a special surprise from her dad - a whale's tooth. She feels really happy about it. She will keep it as a treasure for whole of her life.

Tug of War

Tug of War was fun!

Firstly Mrs Kumar asked Christian to take the bag of rope up the field with someone but Christian said “can it be llase and Alefaio” and so llase took the bag with Alefaio and they settled it up for us to play with for Tug of War.

Next we got in two lines and the lines were boys line and girls line. Mrs Kumar mixed us up and my team won because the other side was rocky so they had no grip on the ground with their feet.

Then Mrs Goundar’s class came and we versed Room 9 and when we versed them we never lost against them and when it was teacher versus teacher Mrs Kumar won because the centre tape went on Mrs Kumar’s side before Mrs Goundar  side so Mrs Kumar won.

After that when we versed room 9 Mrs Kumar said the trick is that we stand zig zag of the rope which meant one person to stand on the left the other on the right side and that was right - we won because that trick was the one that made us win.

Later we were going to leave but Mrs Goundar said “wait” because we were going to do more versing so we did - boys vs boys, girls vs girls and teacher vs teacher and we never lost, that was cool for me because I didn’t know that we were going to win all the rounds against Room 9.

Finally we took the rope and put it in the white bag and we left the field. I felt really happy and surprised because we won and were proud because I wanted to vs against Room 9 and I didn’t know that we will win all of the rounds against Room 9.

By: Tavita

Room 8.

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Tug of War

Tug of War was fun to play.

First we stood in a line on the field while ‘Ilaise and Alefaio carried the bag of little medium light poles, 2 gumboots and the big rope to play Tug of War.

How many minutes/hours did it take.

It took for 60 minutes/one hour to play Tug Of War.

Next we were on the field and we started to play Tug of War but first Mrs Kumar divided us equally into two groups to make it fair for the teams and then we started to play Tug of War.

Then when we were having our last play we saw Rm 9 coming out of their classroom. Mrs Kumar and Mrs Goundar made a plan that we are going to verse Room 9. We stayed on the field to play Tug of War with Room 9.

After that Ms Kumar told us if Rm 9 and us could vs on Tug of War and then after it was Room 9 boys versus Rm 8 boys and Rm 8 boys won but it was like a real one and next it was Room 8 girls versus Room 9 girls and still the Room 8 girls won.

Later it was Teacher/Mrs Kumar versus Teacher/Mrs Goundar on the Tug of War Game and there were some students helping one of them.

Finally the Tug of War Game was finished and we all came back to class.

Conclusion - my favourite part was that Teacher/Mrs Kumar versed Teacher/Mrs Goundar and Mrs Kumar won but it was a fun game.

By: Te-Wai

Room 8

Jelly Bean Music

Today we had Jelly Bean Music Lesson.

Once we said Good Morning to Mrs White and Ms Ruth we sang:

Twinkle, Twinkle Vegemite,On the sandwich brown and white.

If you turn it upside down,
It will make the carpet brown.
Twinkle, Twinkle Vegemite.
I’m o.k and you’re alright! .........

(there is more to this song)

The main note we were learning was "B".

We also played the triangle, castanets, drums and tambourine on the song Overtune from "Carmen".

At end of the session we played our air guitar where we pretended we were playing with our guitar on the song - To the Air Guitar.

Jelly Bean Music

It was exciting to use castanets, triangles, tambourine and drums with the plastic stick
today for our music lesson.

Let's see if you can guess what's the name of these 4 instruments:

How did you go?

Happy Mother's Day

Room 8 learners used Google Drawing and made of Mother's Day Cards for their mum's. They were really excited as after finishing off their cards, they were being printed off for them to take home. Below are the cards Andy and Finau made for their mums.

Django's Birthday

Once a week Andy spends some time with Heather Summers (from BARK NZ) and Django building healthy relationship. This week while spending time with Django Heather shared that it was Django's birthday. It clicked to Andy that Room 8 learners should all get to sing Django a Happy Birthday song.

Everybody were so excited singing Happy Birthday to Django as you can see below.

Happy Birthday Pippa!

It was Pippa's birthday and we were very lucky to have a piece or two of her birthday cake. Pippa cut the cake in class and she was super excited as well. Her mum bought her a chocolate cake from Pak & Save. Room 8 children sang her a Happy Birthday song and Mrs Kumar gave her a birthday card.

Once again Happy Birthday Pippa.

Jelly Bean Music

Mrs White came to teach us some music today. She taught us some of the main keys on the xylophone such as A,B,C,D etc and gave us the feel of how it sounds like when played with a plastic stick. It was really pleasing. We had fun.