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Student of the Month - July

Theissen Kataina-Marii

Theissen is valued member of Rm 12.  She always offers to help out and take on extra responsibilities throughout the school day, especially in the areas of ICT.  She shows respect and responsibility to teachers and her peers.    She works hard to achieve her goals, showing perseverance and determination along the way.  She has become an honest, reliable room 12 classroom member with a positive attitude to learning.

COCODOODLE DOOOOO

Knock knock
who's there?
cocodoodle


Cocodoodle  who?
Hey! I didn't know
you were a rooster!


By Gabrielle

Quad Blogging at New River Primary

Quad Blogging at NRP started this week and Room 12's blog was the focus blog. A big thanks to Room 4 for your comments. We are looking forward to reading other classes blogs in in our Quad Tahi and leaving comments.

Quad Tahi:   (Support Teacher Jazz)

Room 12   http://room12nrp.blogspot.com/

                   http://superreadersroom12nrp.blogspot.com/

Room 4     http://room4nrp.blogspot.com/

Room 14   http://room14nrp.blogspot.com/

Room 8     http://room82012nrp.blogspot.com/

Week Beginning:                                                    Focus Class

Mon 23^rd July                       Week 2                                   12

Mon 30^th July                       Week 3                                     8

Mon 6^th August                   Week 4                                   14 

Mon 13^th August                 Week 5                                     4

KNOCK KNOCK

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Water melon
Water melon who?   

Knock knock
Who's there?
Water Melon
Water Melon who

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Water Melon
Water Melon who?

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Orange
Orange who?
Are you glade I didn't say Water Melon! :)

From Theissen

Magnet Facts

Why do magnet stick on to fridges?

A: Because fridges are made out of steel and steel is a type of meatil?

Magnet Quiz

Q: This is a force Where objects are attracted or repelled to one another?
A: magnetism

Q: magnet  have north seeking pole and a south seeking pole.
A: True

Q: Two of the same kinds of pole repel each other
A: True

Q: Two opposite poles attract other
A: True


By Satisha And Sapphire.

Tumutumu (found instruments)

On Monday to celebrate the beginning of Te Wiki o te Reo 2012.  Whaea Rangimaria our friendly Resource Teacher of Maori taught us about tumtumu (instruments made from found resources).  


We learnt how to identify the different names for each instrument in Maori and English.  We practiced tapping or hitting the pieces of kohatu (rock), iwi (bone), stick (rakau) korari (flax stalk) together to keep a beat.  


Whaea Rangimaria also had a couple of instruments that had been carved from found resources.  This is very clever as these instruments are recycled from nature.  


Some of us like Kylos and Michael gave the porotiti a whirl to see if they could get them to make a sound.  


We learnt a waiata that incorporates a variety of dialects used across different iwi throughout New Zealand.  When we were finished our learning we sung and played our taonga puoro (instruments).  You can check it out, listen and leave a comment.

Margaret Mahy

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A brilliant literary figure in schools. 

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Celebrating Maori Language Week 2012

Room 12 are celebrating Maori Language week in a number of ways this year.  Read on to find out what all the fuss is about...

Monday our Resource Teacher of Maori Whaea Rangimaria will be in to teach us Tumutumu - this is about using found instruments.  What connection does this have to Maori Language Week you say?

Check this site out:  http://www.richardnunns.net.nz/tumutumu-a-found-percussion-instrument/

We are also skyping a number of schools across the country sharing our favourite waiata, haka, mihi, kapa haka practice and many more things that signify Te Reo Maori.

Be apart of the celebration Learn it, Live it, Love it!

We will be using the What, So What, Now What model to reflect on our Maori Language week experinces.

Bilingual Health Resources for Our School

FOREARMED: Heart Foundation Southland health promtions co-ordinator Stella O'Connor and New River Primary pupils (from left) Blade Walker, 9, Mia Henry, 10, and Brody Miller, 11, with the new bilingual health FOREARMED: Heart Foundation Southland health promotions co-ordinator Stella O'Connor and New River Primary pupils (from left) Blade Walker, 9, Mia Henry, 10, and Brody Miller, 11, with the new bilingual health resources they received. 

 Low-decile Southland primary schools will have a new bilingual health resource in time for Maori Language Week. Heart Foundation Southland health promotions co-ordinator Stella O'Connor presented the Hauora Hautipua books to New River Primary yesterday. Twenty low-decile primary schools in Southland will receive the books over the next week. Ms O'Connor said she believed the books were needed in the south. She applied for a grant through the Southern District Health Board's Healthy Eating Healthy Action (HEHA) and received funding for 20 sets of books to be given to low-decile Southland schools. The books, which cover the four seasons, follow superheroes Maui and Hina and look at traditional Maori concepts, incorporating health and nutrition messages, she said. The messages promoted healthier lifestyles, diet and exercise to whanau and the wider community, and a teachers' guide had suggestions on further teaching on the topic with links to the curriculum, Ms O'Connor said. "Education can play a key role in tackling the spiralling rates of obesity and diabetes in New Zealand, and sadly the rates are even higher among Maori and Pacific communities." The books, which were released by the Heart Foundation to celebrate Maori Language Week, can be bought from the foundation. Adapted from an original resource developed by Te Hotu Manawa Māori and Robyn Kahukiwa, the books also aim to improve Maori literacy. The foundation was developing a storyboard format for early childhood centres, Ms O'Connor said. New River principal Elaine McCambridge said it was always wonderful to get new resources for the school, especially those related to health promotion. "We are a health-promoting school and it all ties in with that at New River," she said. It was important to have resources such as the Hauora Hautipua books, which were in a format children could understand and relate to, she said. Maori Language Week, Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2012, runs from Monday to Sunday next week.

A Wow Fact from Kiwi Can

 
Did you know that the toilet paper used in one day in America, could go around the world nine times!!!!!!!!

Wow Fact Published by Nesion

WERE JUST JOKING AROUND

If a rooster laid an egg on a triangle house, witch way would it roll?

By Gabrielle

What did the snow man say to the other snow man?

By Michael

Knock Knock
WHO'S THERE
senior
SENIOR    WHO
senior so nosey I'm not going to tell you

Knock Knock
Who's there
repeat
repeat who
ok who who who who who who who who

by Gabrielle

Rm 12 Super Star

Student for the Month of June - Lane

Term 2 Highlights

The end of term came around very quickly and there were many highlights we did not manage to share with our followers throughout the term.  

Please check out our PhotoPeach snapshot of the past terms highlights...

Term 2 Highlights 2012 on PhotoPeach

Transit of Venus

What is a Transit of Venus? 

When Venus passes directly between earth and the sun, we see the distant planet as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the sun. Historically, this rare alignment is how we measured the size of our solar system. The view is like a front row seat to the transit method, by which we find planets around distant stars. 


The last transit of Venus occurred June 5-6-2012. The next pair of Sun-Venus-Earth alignments will be December 2117 and 2125. Look for a transit of Mercury in 2016. 


People across the globe witnessed and celebrated science in action. Here at New River Primary Mr Esler brought along his huge scientific telescope and each classroom got the opportunity to see venus passing across the face of the sun.  

It was very important not to look through the telescope as it is dangerous to the naked eye.  You will see in the photo below that Mr Esler had a mirror to reflect the view from the telescope so we could all view this event safely.