WOW ... Term 3 already! We've done so much this term so let me give you a taste of what's been happening down in good old ROOM 2.

Room 2 practising their dance moves

Awesome programmes happening in Room 2 and our kids are learning lots and fast.  Well done kids.

  Concert coming up THURSDAY 5 AUG at Hosanna Baptist Church Hall, 6.30pm.
Happy reading.

WOOHOO !! We had a cool visit from KIDS CAN and they gave us some cool looking jackets.  Check out our photos of when they came. 

Like the lyrics to the song "HERE COME THE KIDS IN BLACK..."  We rocked our jackets and BIG THANK YOU to KIDS CAN for giving them to us.

"And the winner for the KIDS CAN WARRIORS jacket goes to NINO...."

".... and YOU ALL get one too!"

Room 2 front and centre welcoming our guest KIDS CAN and Meridian to our special assembly.

Another thank you to KIDS CAN and Meridian for giving us awesome jackets and support.

Hi All.  Room 2 have been so busy this term with swimming, Cannons Creek sch Fun Day and this week we have WHEELS DAY where we bring our bikes, scooters etc to school.  

Here's some photos of what we've done this term.

Swimming lessons are going great!

Swimming Lessons @ Creek Pools

Mileage Reading - Nino and Panapa aka PJ reading to T.A

Fun Day with Cannons Creek

More pics to come by end of the week.  Have a good one.

 

 WOW !!! Room 2 Rocks.  Week 6 and we've done so many things.  We've been to THE BIG DATA at the National Library and are in the process of doing swimming lessons down at our local pool Cannons Creek.  Here are some photos of us doing our thing.

 It's always good to have our parents come on our trips.  Some of our dads got to help make masks with us.  
I've got to go but I've got some pictures from our Fun Day coming up soon.
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A number of Room 2 children completed wonderful writing that showed us what the attributes of HEART look and sound like at Russell School. Way to go guys!

Mini Olympics

Room two was Zimbawe for the afternoon, check out Faamalele!

For Te Wiki o te Reo Maori, Room 2 worked on reading and retelling the myth of Maui and the Sun.  Enjoy reading some of them here:

 Maui Slows the Day Down

Once upon a time Maui couldn't go fishing and cook his food because it was too dark.  Maui called his brothers to come.  

He told his brothers, "Help me slow that sun down".

Maui's brothers laughed because they didn't believe him.  Maui's brothers helped to make the harakeke ropes.  Maui and his brothers went to the sun's hole.  

Maui said, "When I count to three, jump out and catch the sun".

"1, 2, 3, Now!" said Maui.  Maui crashed the jawbone on the sun.

He told the sun, "If you don't slow down we won't have enough time".

So the sun slowed down and everybody had heaps of time.

By Ailani

Maui Versus the Sun

The sun went down and Maui couldn't fish.  Maui left with his brothers.  They hid behind the rock so the sun couldn't find them.  

Maui called out "Now!" he said, and his brothers got the ropes around the sun.  

The sun said "Let me go, can't you see I am about to die?" 

Maui said "Let him go, only if you slow down."  

"I will" said the sun, and he promised.

By Filiga

Maui and the Sun

This is a long time ago.  Maui couldn't fish, and he couldn't hunt and eat his food  because the sun was going too fast.  So Maui called his brothers.  

"The sun is going too fast" said Maui," he is speeding across the sky.  The nights are going too long.  We will catch and slow down the sun."

"But how?" said his brothers "he is so big and we are so small."

"We will catch it with Harakeke" said Maui.

So they cut the Harakeke.  When they set off to the hole where the sun stayed and hid.

"Now!" said Maui.  The brothers pulled and pulled.  Maui whacked and whacked.

"Stop!" said the sun, "you are killing me."

Now the sun will go slow.

By Elijah

Maui and the Sun 

There was an old man who was called Maui.  Maui couldn't go fishing and hunting because it was dark.  The sun moved very fast.  Maui said to his brothers his idea. 

"Let's make flax so we can catch the sun."  He hid in the hole.  

Maui said, "Three, two, one go!" and they caught the sun with Maui's magic jaw bone.  

The sun was groaning. 

 Maui said "Let go!" The sun went slow. 

By Hussein