KAPA HAKA

The Kapa haka festival was on last week at Tamatea Intermediate. 
It was great to see ten Room 2 kids take part in this. The performances were awesome and everyone looked great in the new costumes. 
Well done everyone. You showed great commitment to Kapa Haka for over a whole term.

EXTINCTION

We have been learning about extinction this term. Here is some of the learning we have done during this inquiry.

Triceratops have 3 horns. They could grow as long as our classroom. That's 9 metres long and as high as our roof. With their little mouth they ate plants and twigs. They were not meat eaters.

People used to eat Moas.They only lived in NZ.
Moas had long legs. They laid eggs.-Ize
Moas ran fast. Their favourite food was twigs and water.-Elley-May
Moas ran fast and couldn't fly. They lived after the dinosaurs.-Angus
Moas had long necks and legs. They had feathers.-Raiven
A moa egg was 10x bigger than a hen egg.
Moas only laid one egg a year.
Moas couldn't fly off cliffs. They had small wings.-Osiris
Moas were taller than people. They had BIG feet and long necks.-Kieran
Moas could run fast but they couldn't fly.- Jerry

Woolly mammoth were BIG and they had fur to keep warm. They lived in the snow. They had BIG feet and a little tail.

Mammoths had big eyes. They ate grass and plants. They are extinct now.

By Tanith

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Miss Jones taught us about mammoths. They have tusks and were 4 metres tall. They were brown and they were fat. They had a fat tummy and they lived in the snow. They had BIG GIANT feet and they had a short tail. They had a twisty trunk and long legs. 

They ate grass and plants. They lived in BIG caves by trees.

By Marie

I watched a sabre tooth tiger movie. They ate meat and people.

They had long teeth. They had spots on their back too.

They are extinct.

By Hamiora

Sabre tooth tigers were really fast. They ate meat. They had long teeth and a furry chest. They were 2 metres long. They had sharp teeth to eat animals.

By Flynn

OUR FROGS

Miss Murphy took our frogs to a quiet pond where they will be very happy. It's a much bigger pond than our tank. They will be safe there and they will be able to get lots of insects to eat.
We really enjoyed watching the tadpoles grow up and turn into frogs.

MORE AWESOME WRITING

My Mum took me for an x-ray and a blood test. I sat on Mum's Knee. Brianna sat on the arm of the chair.
The blood test kind of hurt. 
I could not feel the x-ray.
By Kieran

I went to the circus.
I liked the girl on the rope.
By Tanith

I went to Sameera's house and we went in her room.
We put on her make up. Her Mum called her out of the room and then we went to have lunch.
We went to play outside. We went on the slide.
By Sarah

I am going to my Aunty's clubhouse at Easter time to do an egg hunt.
By Arnica

We are going to Anderson Park on Wednesday. We are having a FUN DAY!!
By Lilly

I went to Wellington with Nana Nani.
By Jerry

I have a rabbit and a cat. I think the rabbit is cute. It is a baby rabbit.
By Arohanui

Oscar is coming to school today.
He will teach us Mandarin.
By Ize

My Mum got some rugby boots and I played rugby.
I am good at rugby.
By Osiris

I went fishing with my Dad. I slept in the car. My dog and my Dad slept in the car too. In the morning I woke up. I caught a fish and then I kicked in feet in the water.
By Zander.

CHANGE

We have been looking at things that change. We have found out that many things are changing all around us. Some things change quickly, others slowly.

We have all changed. 
We looked at our baby photos, toddler photos and our Kindergarten photos.
Some of us wrote about how we have changed over the last few years.

This wee man has grown up and is in Room 2.

When I was a baby I had to crawl. I drank milk. I made noises. I really was a baby.
Now I can ride my bike. I had a four wheeler when I was three. When I was five I could ride a two wheeled motor bike.
By Blake


When I was a baby I was very tired. I used to drink lots of milk. I couldn't walk and my Mum used to carry me. I am big now and I can eat and walk by myself.
By Angus


When I was a baby I drank milk and I had no teeth.
I couldn't walk.
By Hamiora


When I was a baby I only had two teeth in my mouth. My Mum had to feed me.
When I was a baby couldn't sleep in my Mum and Dad's bed.
By Elley-May


When I was a baby I had milk a lot.
I made lots of noise and I had short hair. 
I couldn't eat because I didn't have teeth.
When I was a toddler I could eat food. When I was a preschooler I could talk and my hair was long. I could walk too.
By Raiven


When I was a baby I couldn't walk well. 
I had no teeth.
When I was little I could walk to the door.
When I was a baby I used to have sleeps and milk.
I said "Mum" and "Dad".
I was in a cot and a high chair.
By Ella


When I was a baby I used to suck my thumb. I didn't have teeth.
By Amelia

THE LIFE CYCLE OF A FROG

Mother frog hides the eggs from other animals that might eat the eggs.
The tadpoles are black. The eggs are white.
The tadpoles swim, eat and grow.
They breathe through their gills and they eat the weeds.
Next they grow legs at the back of the tadpole and next they grow their front legs.
Their tail get smaller and smaller, now it looks more like a frog.
When they don't have a tail they are a frog. They hop into the water and then the frog lays eggs and it starts all over again.
I like our tadpoles. I can't wait until they are frogs.
By Raiven 

TOP LEARNING

In Room 2 we put our Top Learning up on our special hoop.

We feel proud of our learning.





Cool Stories

I went to the Art Deco and my Mum brought Hayley.
Hayley was afraid of the planes.
I dressed up and was in the car.
By Marie

Day 1
My tooth is falling out. I'm going to get a dollar.
I'm excited it is falling out.
It is my third tooth.

Day 2
I am trying to pull my tooth out, trying and trying and trying. But it's not coming out. I am going to do it today.
By Matthew

I have a new helmet for my bike.
I can go fast. I face planted in to a pole.
I went flying.
By Angus

I went to Art Deco last night and saw the planes.
They went in loops and went up and down.
It was fun.
By Raiven