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12 April : The swimming programme for Term 1 was great and lots of skills were learned or improved upon. Here us a video of Room 8 swimming. [|Room 8 Swimming]

media type="custom" key="8919822" 1April We are making Vokis today...just practising at first. This is Shania's...other people can put them onto their own pages. We will use these next term to help us with some of our work, so these are the fun ones!! (ooops, work IS fun!)

5 March And now we are FIRING UP to ask questions and learn more about LIGHT and colour... have a look at our discovery session. media type="file" key="PhotoStory1.wmv" width="300" height="300"

We are doing an Inquiry into the Treaty of Waitangi. 4 February As part of the "Firing Up" stage, the children have been learning about some Maori art symbols and what they signify. This helped them to think of some great questions about Maori life before and at the time of the Treaty. Here are some of them discussing the draft pictures they made...and the video shows that their next step in learning will be to become more familiar with Maori words like Poutama (Stairway to Heaven). And Mrs F needs to learn how to change the font size for the video! We will have some finished art soon....and answers to those questions...watch this space. media type="youtube" key="1F4E4jQ7FRs" height="390" width="640" 9 February After **FIRING UP**, the next stage in the inquiry process we are following is **FINDING OUT FURTHER**. The children had sorted their many questions into categories and, working in groups, had found answers for things they needed to know, about Maori life before the settlers came, about British life, the Treaty itself, etc. Now, in the same groups, they are planning how they are going to present their information to the rest of the class. media type="youtube" key="F-my2SfZ-H4" height="390" width="640"