Little Red Riding Hood

Over the last few weeks we have been learning to retell our favourite fairy tales with a twist. We chose Little Red Riding Hood and presented it in a Kid Pix.

By Emily and Lydia

 Hannah and I (Ella C) have retold the fairy tale Snow White but we have put our our twist on it. We have enjoyed working with Kid Pix and doing our own writing.

Jack and the BeanStalk.

We have been learning to retell a fairy tale.by Joel Ike and Hayden.

The Nice Mermaid

Room  2  has been learning to retell     
 a fairy tale 
By Hannah B  and  Chloe D.     

The Three Little Pigs.

In Room 2 we have been learning to retell a fairy tale.          By Alex and Jardon.

Sleeping Beauty

In Room 2 we have been leaning to create a fairy tale movies with a twist.  We have used KidPix
by Preston and Nick.

Cinderella And The Three Friends

In Room 2, we have been learning to create a fairy tale with a twist. We used KidPix to do this certain thing.




By Samantha & Briley

Our Butterflies

Our butterfly artworks were the end result of investigating live butterflies, pictures of butterflies and sharing our own experiences and knowledge. We looked closley at their various body parts and the symetrical patterns on their wings.

Next we made some observational drawings of butterflies and lastly we created our own butterfly.

By Hayden, Laura and Hannah B

Fabrics and Fibres

Our science study in Term 2 was called Fabrics and Fibres. In our unit we found out about all the different properties of fabrics. We had a guest speaker called Dil Bellworthy come talk to us about making clothes out of merino. Dil owns a company called Glowing Sky and he told us lots of interesting things about the properties of merino wool. For instance did you know that you can wear merino wool for two or three days and it won't get stinky and need a wash. We did some experiments with fabrics too. One of them was finding the best fabric to clean up a spill from a drink bottle. We had great fun even if there was a bit of cleaning up to do afterwards. We also had to research and find out the best fabric to make a T Shirt, a raincoat, or a pair of P. J's out of. We had to discuss our reasoning with others. We thought this was a fun study to do.

By Chloe, Lydia, Daniel M and Daniel S.

During Term 2 we chose an animal to research and write about. What we ended up writing was an animal report and when you read it you will find out lots of things about the animal. We were allowed to publish our reports how we wanted to. Some of us made colourful posters and some of us made a book. Our reports are on display in our room if you would like to come and read them.

By Laim, Ike, Ella C and Preston.

Golden Day Term 2

On Golden Day we wore our Pyjamas to school and while we ate popcorn, we watched a movie. On this special day, the movie we watched was Alvin and the Chipmunks -Chipwrecked. We can remember all that yummy popcorn mmmmmmm.
By Samantha, Jacob and Eamonn

Cross Country

In Term 2 we went to Waianawa School for our cross country. It was a hot afternoon and it was not too muddy. Lots of people tried their hardest. Lots of people from Makarewa came first, second and third place. By Nick, Ashton, Emily and Caleb

ICT in Room 2

Check out this picture of wonderful Room 2 students making slideshows of their favourite fairy tales in Kidpix! Stay tuned to see the finished product soon...

Culture Term 1

Room 2's Korowai

As part of our culture unit we made a korowai. This is a special treasure for the Maori culture. It is a cloak with feathers.

On Wednesday we made our own Korowai. We wove it out of paper. One way we wrote the names of the different cultures we have in New Zealand and our school. The other way we wrote we were all New Zealanders. We wove them together and decorated it with feathers.

We found out that New Zealand is made up of many different cultures coming together to make one whole culture for New Zealand.

By Samantha, Emily, Ike and Laura

Hebrew Culture

Ella’s mum came and told us about a special celebration that is part of hers and Ella’s culture.

My Mum is from Israel and she is Hebrew. We celebrate Purim mum told us about the festival then she made the special biscuits we eat during the festival. Everyone thought they were yummy.

By Ella, Hannah and Eamonn

Mrs Jansen's Culture

Jadine’s Mum comes from Holland. She talked to us about her Dutch culture. She told us that her home in Holland looks like a two-storied house but it has a third bit at the top that you can’t really see. It’s called an attic. She also told us that on special days of celebration the people in Holland wear special costumes.
Written by Hannah G, Alex T and Jardon.

Elgregoe's Show

On Wednesday Wallacetown School came to watch Elgregoe the Magician with us. Elgregoe talked about Makarewa School manners. He preformed magic tricks and talked to us about Makarewa values and manners.
He said, “ Treat others they way you want to be treated you’ve got the power to make a difference at your school “.
He was exciting to watch.

Written by Nick, Lydia and Preston

Keeping Ourselves safe

Constable Marty came to our school and talked about how we can keep ourselves safe.

Thomson's Bush Trip

We had our trip to Thomsons Bush. We had so much fun there doing different activities like bug finding, weaving, walking in the bush, playing rounders, photography and scavenger hunting.

Ella, Joel, Caleb

sports day

This term we have had our junior and senior sports. We took part in lots of different events like; running, shot put, discus, high jump, and long jump. Ike, Nick, and Hayden all got places in the running races and are off to the zones.
Great stuff, guys.
Written by Hayden, Daniel S, Jacob D.

Legoland

Daniel McPherson’s mum comes from Denmark and she came to school and told us a lot of interesting things about her life in Denmark.
The thing that we found interesting was that Lego comes from Denmark. It was invented there. They make lots of different Lego things in Denmark. Do you know they even have a whole town made of Lego? It is called “ Legoland “.
“ The Lego that you play with at home comes all the way from where my Mum comes from ”, said Daniel M

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