Things to remember

Room 16 performed this song during Friday's Positive Assembly. As a class we chose this song to learn and perform to the school. We liked its message and that it was written by Primary School kids, just like us! 

Newtown Central Primary School won the Hook Line and Sing Along competition with this song two years ago. This year's winners was Waimarie Smith with Paradise which is now sung at many of our assemblies. Maybe this song will also become part of Hamilton East School's collection of songs. Have a listen and let us know what you think.

Bubbles

Light Explorers

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.