Room 21 and 22 Boat Making Day

We had to construct a boat strong enough to survive rough waters and take the grizzly bear family back to the main land without tipping out of the boat.

Stacey Gregg

Stacy Gregg came to visit us at Te Mata School. She was talking to us about her new book called, The Diamond Horse. She went to Russia to get some inspiration for her new book. It is based on true characters back in the 1800s. In her book she has different animals roaming the palace and the palace grounds that are not just horses. She writes the series Pony Club Secrets and also Pony Club Rivals.

By Ava, Jessica, Rebecca, Sunshine

I Am, We Are

This is the end result from an inquiry about the diversity of cultures that make up our classes, and the art that represents those cultures. Room 21 and 22 are very proud of their end result!

Hawkes Bay Cross Country Champs

Here is a photo of the three children from Room 21 and 22 going to the Hawkes Bay Cross Country Champs today. Good luck and do us proud.

By Sunshine

MOVE IT TERM 4!

Come on Te Mata school, let's get moving.

Our goal is to “find environmentally friendly ways to get to school”.

For the first four weeks in Term 4 we need you to walk, run, cycle, skateboard or any do any type exercise to get to school...it still counts if you even do these after getting off the bus!  

Ask your adult to drop you off on one of the safe routes on the map below so you can join in.

Once you get to school - see our School Councillors to click your ticket!

For every five days you get moving... you could win an amazing prize in our draw. The more you move… The more you could win.

Get ready to MOVE IT from day one of Term Four.

So, what are you waiting for Te Mata ?

Let's get moving.

Our Inquiry

For our inquiry we have been learning about all the different cultures of people in our classroom and their cultures arts. Then we made a poster of all the different arts. Here is a photo of one of the finished ones.

We have also done our own inquiry about our own cultures. We are going to be presenting everything that we have learnt on Friday at the Expo Morning.

By Sunshine 

And the Winner is...

We entered a writing competition to celebrate the new book 'The 78-Storey Treehouse'. We had to write, in 200 words or less, a story based on The 78- Storey Treehouse and Jaspreet Chamber was one of the winners! Yay for Jaspreet!

More Calendar Art

Calendar Art

Yesterday Room 21 and 22 did our calendar art. Our design was from Andy Warhol who was an American artist who lived from 1930 until 1987. Here are some photos of us working on our art. You will have to come in and see them on our wall next week so that you will be able to fill out your order form , when it comes.

.... We look forward to seeing these printed on our mouse pads or cards or calendars!

By Lachlan

New Blog for Room 21 and Room 22

Room 21 and Room 22 are working together for most subjects now so we have combined our blog as well. 'Stay tuned' to follow our classes. New address is Room 21-22 blog

Procedural Writing

These past few weeks we have been learning about procedural writing. We even made a help sheet to remind us how to write a procedural text. As we wanted to write our own text, Mrs Legarth and Mrs Tomlinson made us do a procedural text on what we made at HNI. Here is a photo of a help sheet.

Fun Run Friday

6/9/2016

Smiles, laughs and a bit of sport on Friday!  

My legs flew through the air swiftly landing with both feet on the ground. I bit my lip as I hurried over to the hurdles.

I breathed heavily as I stared at the hurdles. They were huge, as tall as a horse. I soon sighed a breath of relief as I realised we went under them.

 

"Yay! A maze!" I yelled happily as I hurried over to the bright plastic walls. I weaved my way in & out through the castle of plastic till I got to the bridge.

Go Inter-school Runners

6/9/2016

These are our 11 inter-school runners from Room 21 & Room 22 & for weeks they have been getting ready for cross country. Let's hope one of them gets first place.

    Back: Oscar,Tom, Tayla- Louise,Sophie,Brianna,Ollie,Cameron

             Front: Lauren, Greer, Meaghan, Isaac

HNI Technology Taster Sessions

Last week we went to HNI and tried some technology activities. Thank you to the Intermediate for our chance to experience fun learning.