This week Room 16 started to think about our school's Cross Country race in week 6. We watched two of the best runners in the world win races during the 2012 London Olympics and discussed what they did to win. 

Usain Bolt

Mo Farah

We looked at how they ran and the distance they ran and compared it to running a cross country race. We decided that to run well at our Cross Country race we needed to run like Mo: slow, steady and consistent. 

Go Room 16!

Room 16's perform the song Paradise in sign language

Room 16 learnt how to sing and sign the words to this award winning song by Waimarie Smith from St Peters School in Cambridge in just one week. To celebrate NZ music month we hope that other classes at Hamilton East will also learn this song so we can sing it at assembly on 31st May along with many other schools all over NZ. Enjoy!

Tūrangawaewae Movie

This is Room 16's Tūrangawaewae movie showing our learning over the first term of school. As you will see we love learning but also having fun together!

Last Thursday we had a pineapple tasting session in class. This was inspired by an article the Kereru reading group read called, 'I wish I could taste it!' and it was all about pineapples. 

We had three different types of pineapple to eat; dried, canned and fresh. We sat in a big circle and waited until everyone had a piece so we could try it at the same time. Then we wrote down all the different words we could that described the taste, smell or look of that particular pineapple. 

11 of us liked the dried pineapple, 11 of us liked the canned pineapple and 12 of us liked the fresh pineapple. Below you can read a small part of some of the writing produced by the Room 16 students about their pineapple tasting experience:

Tia: I liked the one that was in a can, it was delicious.
Reydon: The dried pineapple tasted like raisins, it was crunchy. 
Latoya: The pineapple was sweet and I could taste the sugar. 
Aly: The fresh pineapple tasted like Hawaiian Pizza. 
Phlayme: The pineapple was squidgy in my mouth. 
Aniisa: When I first tasted the pineapple it tasted scrumptious and delicious. 
Heath: We tasted dried pineapple, it tasted like a banana. 

How to make silverbeet and cheese spring rolls

What you need:

-      Silverbeet

-      Cheese

-      Spring roll pastry

-      Oil

What you do:

-      Wash the silverbeet.

-      Cut up the silverbeet into strips.

-      Put the oil in the pan and spread it.

-      Then turn on the pan.

-      Put the cut up silverbeet in the pan and cook it.

-      Get some spring roll pastry.

-      Lay it out so it looks like a diamond.

-      Put the silverbeet in the pastry with cheese.

-      Roll it up from the bottom corner.

-      When it gets to the middle we fold over the sides and keep rolling it till the end.

-      Brush the spring rolls with oil.

-      Cook it in a hot oven for 10 minutes until they are crispy, brown and golden.

By Ciara

Edited by Room 16

For the Harvest Festival Room 16 made yummy silverbeet and cheese spring rolls. Look at the pictures below to see how we made them. Instructions on how to make them coming soon...

Welcome to new Room 16, new year, new teacher, new kids! 

Ngā mihi nui, 

At the end of 2012 we sadly said goodbye to Mrs Mckenzie and wished her well with her travels in Europe. I, Whaea Eve, am the lucky new teacher in Room 16 who gets to work with an amazing bunch of Y2 and Y3 students for the whole of 2013. 

We have had a great start to the year! We made a treaty which will help us remember what is expected of us and also what we should expect of others in the class so we can learn; we have been learning more about each other during our Tūrangawaewae and maths unit; and most of us have been enjoying our daily swimming lessons that teach us skills on how to be safer in the water. 

This is Room 16 on the first day of the new year.

Kia ora, 

Whaea Eve