Room 6

Welcome to 2024!

Pepeha

Tēnā rā katou katoa

I tipu ahau o Kirikiriroa

Hōrana me Airangi me

Ingaranui aku tūpuna

Ko Mark taku tane

Ko Oliver taku tama

Ko Georgie taku tamāhine

Ko Maria toku ingoā

Tēna koutou, tēna koutou, tēna

koutou ka toa

 


Greetings to you all

I grew up in Hamilton

My ancestors are from The Netherlands, Ireland and England

Mark is my husband

Oliver is my son

Georgie is my daughter

My name is Maria

Greetings

Tēnā koe!

I am really excited to be heading into a new year at Tauwhare School. We have a year ahead of us full of learning opportunities and ways to develop and grow.

My whānau is my world and I am grateful to be walking alongside your tamariki this year as we become Rūma 6 whānau together.

If I haven't met you yet, or if you feel like having a chat, please pop into Rūma 6 and say hi!

Maria

maria.chubb@tauwhare.school.nz

We have had an awesome start to the year together, exploring Te Tiriti o Waitangi and making our own classroom treaty.

Wow we are amazing artists! We have created abstract self portraits we made in the style of modern artist Sandra Silzberweig. Here are a few and click this link to see more of our art and other happenings from this term.

Term 4 2023

We are amazing artists in Rūma 6! Our visit from Harold inspired these beautiful pieces of art.....

During Term 3 we loved our Inquiry unit: Migration to Aotearoa.

The tamariki learned about early Polynesian explorers who used their navigational skills to discover Aotearoa on huge double hulled waka hourua. After careful planning and design they built their own waka hourua and tested them to see if they were seaworthy! 

Term 2 - 2023

Wow what an amazing term we have had together in Rūma 6!! We are powerful learners! Have a look through some photos of our mahi this term...

We had fun learning about insects and put together sketches, labelled diagrams and informative writing to display our learning about dragonflies.

We loved thinking like scientists and exploring the House of Science Box at the end of the term.

In our writing we have been learning how to write character descriptions. So we chose to write about one of our favourite characters - Greedy Cat!

Our waiata kaitiaki is one of our favourites so we decided to create some art of our favourite kaitiaki.

With our science hats on again, we explored the art and skill of balancing using dragonfly models!

Pepeha

Tēnā rā katou katoa

I tipu ahau o Kirikiriroa

Hōrana me Airangi me

Ingaranui aku tūpuna

Ko Mark taku tane

Ko Oliver taku tama

Ko Georgie taku tamāhine

Ko Maria toku ingoā

Tēna koutou, tēna koutou, tēna

koutou ka toa

 


Greetings to you all

I grew up in Hamilton

My ancestors are from The Netherlands, Ireland and England

Mark is my husband

Oliver is my son

Georgie is my daughter

My name is Maria

Greetings

Kia ora!

I am excited to be joining the Tauwhare Primary community this term. I have been living and teaching in Cambridge since 2010 and I have a passion for literacy, believing all tamariki have the right to learn to read and write competently. 

I love the outdoors, swimming in lakes and the ocean, spending time walking and biking with my whānau. Another passion I have is reading, I love getting lost in fiction and my challenge over the past few years has been to read more non-fiction which I am also loving.

Please pop into Rūma 6 and say hi!

maria.chubb@tauwhare.school.nz

2022


Queen Elizabeth II

Room 6 have spent the last week looking at 'everything about the Queen'. We are so inspired about her life, spending 70 years in the same job, that she was queen at 25 years old and  she has travelled all over the world.  We want to have the same bravery, courage and perseverance that she showed the world throughout her time as Queen, we also loved the fact that her and Paddington Bear had a very special friendship. 

Here are some samples of Room 6 students and their writing. We have been learning to type up our own writing. Well done Room 6.

Queen Elizabeth.  By Fletcher

The Queen lived in a castle in London. She met Paddington the bear. She puts a sandwich in handbag with no wrapper around it. Years ago she came to New Zealand to visit us. She was the queen when she was only 25  years old. One of her oldest kids was Prince Charles .Who is now the King. She traveled all around the world when she was the queen. She wore bright clothes everywhere she went so people could see her. She lived a very happy life being the Queen. She passed away at 96 years old. She was nearly 100  years old. 


Elizabeth the Queen

By Elizabeth

 Queen Elizabeth the second has passed away. She lived a very happy life.She ate a sandwich every day. She traveled the world; she even came to New Zealand. She was Queen for 70 years as the Queen.The Queen's birthday was in April and we had a public holiday. She met Paddington Bear and had a tea party. King Charles, Princess Mary and Andrew were her children. She was nearly 100 years old when she died. 


Queen Elizabeth

 By Amber

 The Queen passed Away. She ate a jam sandwich everyday.She was friends with Paddington bear, he also ate a sandwich like her. She wears bright clothes so that people can see her. She has traveled the world. She lived in a castle in London England. She came to New Zealand when she was the Queen. When she became friends with Paddington bear they had a tea party. The Queen was 96 years old when she died. 


The Queen 

By Ruby

 The Queen lived for 70 years as the queen. Then the queen met Paddington the bear. The queen passed away but she lived a happy life. Paddington and the Queen both have marmalade sandwiches that they hold for special emergencies. They have been friends for a very long time. The Queen lived so long, she died at 96 years old. 


2022

Grandparents day 

Book week was a lovely week full of budding reading, teacher reads, grandparents day, Book fair, Book character disco and performances. Here are some photos of the past week. Such a fabulous week. It was lovely meeting all of our grandparents, we loved showing them around Room 6 and reading stories. We loved sharing what we have learnt and doing some JumpJam dances.




Today we were very lucky to have St John in Room 6. She taught us all about emergencies, and what we should do if we need to call 111. We learnt what happens when we call 111, and the important information that they will ask us, and the 5 finger rule.


We had a practice of this, and learnt all about how to put our buddy into the recovery position. Have a practice tonight

We learnt some valuable lessons today, which one day we hopefully won't have to use but is important for us to know.

We learnt that its super important to know our address and phone numbers of important people eg Mum, Dad or an emergency contact. It's something to put on the fridge just in case.


Thank you so much St John for coming in to visit.


Term 2 2022

OUR NEW PLAYGROUND.

Ms Bradley has spent a lot of time designing, approving and organised our new junior playground that is right outside our classroom. Thank you so much.  It has already brought a lot of excitement to the school.

Room 6 spent the week before the holidays creating 3d poppy to remember our fallen soldiers on ANZAC day. We loved the multiple level art aspect to this project. Come in and check our our wall display. We listened to the story ANZAC ted and wrote our own descriptions about what ANZAC ted is to us. We then spent a session drawing our very own ted. 

This term we have been exploring different techniques within the visual arts. We have been learning about making shapes, lines and shading. The different medias we have looked at are, water colour, paint, crayon, pastel and now paper mache. Check out the artist in Room 6.

Folder with more art 


2021

Lockdown

Room 6 completed some fantastic challenges during Lockdown 2.0. I was very proud of all the different skills that you had learnt during the year to then use them while at home on Seesaw.  Great work, Room 6. Here is some of the different fun activities that we completed. 



HAROLD

We had an absolute beautiful time with Harold from The Life Ed trust.  Room 6 learnt all about head hasslers and how they can stop us from doing our work, how they can make us angry and be mean but with every head hassler there is a mind master that reminds us how to solve problems, reminds us that we can do it, and encourages us to have a go. What  a powerful lesson we had with Sarah. We also learnt how the difference to reacting and responding to different situations and how that can affects how we learn, participate deal with different challenges. We were so incredibly lucky to have the Life Ed trust classroom visit us.

We went on a 'Harold adventure' and learnt that we can react or respond to different situations.

Harold told use lots of stories, like how marmite is his favorite, he has a purple skateboard. He also told us a joke or two. 

Cross Country


This year our school cross country was a little bit different due to being in level 2 we unfortunately couldn't have parents there to cheer us on and support all the runners as well as that we normally go the farm to run this year Mrs Reeve had to change the course and we ran at school. What a fantastic day we had, well done to all of our runners. You were stars. 


X-MAN 

Tauwhare School had X-Man come in and visit during week 9 and wow we are always blown away with the fantastic message that he gives. This time Room 6 were lucky enough to learn all about rubbish and especially what is in our lunch box. We talked about what are better ways that we can have a litter free lunch box, like do we need our apple wrapped in plastic or how to make sandwich wraps out of old material.

Grandparents day


This term we had a book fair visit. What a great week to celebrate all the amazing books that we love to read. Books are a great tool for teaching us all the valuable information that we might want to learn. On Wednesday we had grandparents day. As a school, we put on a concert for our grandparents. Room six took the books 'How to babysit a grandpa and How to babysit a grandma' Room 6 students then gave their own ideas on it. 


How to entertain a grandad?


You can get him to solve a puzzle with missing pieces. -Lily


You can take him fishing on his boat and promise him that he can bait the hooks. - Ollie


You can let him watch his favourite movie and let him make some popcorn- Blake 


You can keep him busy in his workshop.- Caleb


How to play with a grandma? 


You can play hide and go seek and let her find me- Harper


You can teach her how to build a lego tower-Lucas


How can we keep a grandma busy? 


She can cook me my favourite dinner in the whole wide world- Summer


You can make a mess with her and let her clean it up - Wolfgang


You can pretend to go to space in a rocket ship with her- Cooper


You can make a lego creation with her- Cohen 


What snacks do we make for Grandad's? 


You can give him anything dipped in tomato sauce- Anika


You can give him cookies mixed in ice cream- Miller


You can give him the best porridge in the world, made by him- Ethan


How to say goodbye to a grandma?


You can say see you later alligator don't forget your toilet paper- Dinah 


You can say I love you without making a sound.- Edyn-Rose


You can give her a big slobbery kiss as she gives me- Josh 


How do we put a grandad to sleep?


You can sing him a song that never ends- Beau 


You can read him a book that has 99 pages and no pictures- Rory


You can play hide and seek and forget to find him- Madeline 


We loved having all  our grandparents visit. It was great to meet you all. 











Learning all about Electricity and Circuits

We used the Brainbox Circuit Kits to learn how a circuit is made and then explored using the diagrams to make many other electrical circuits from sirens, alarms, a radio receiver, a flying fan, a boat pushed aloing by a fan and many more.  The co-operation, resilience and perseverance was a delight to behold as they learned what they needed to do to correct a 'mistake'.

Enjoy our photos and videos here

 Eat Right, Be Bright Magic Show. 

What a fantastic show to be part of.  The students were amazed by all the magic that they saw. So were the teachers. Here are a few photos from the show. We had some of the Room 6 students up on stage helping the magician.  We learnt about what our body need to grow and how different food are required for our bodies to help us with our learning. Room 6 have since learnt a magic trick or two as well as created some magic art. Pop in and see it we might even tell you the magic behind it. 

I Can Eat A Rainbow

Following on from the Eat Right Be Bright Magic Show, Room 6 talked about having a rainbow in their lunchbox and how they could describe the fruit and vegies in their lunchbox so they were eating a rainbow.  The resulting writing is absolutely delightful as are their illustrations.

Click on the link to read their lovely personal voice. I Can Eat A Rainbow

Tabloid sports

On Thursday 25th March, The Junior school went to Tamahere Model School for Tabloid sports. What a fantastic day it was and I am sure the students had as much fun as the teachers did. The students participated in a range of different sports and races run by the student teachers. We would love to thank all of our amazing parents who helped and offered their support throughout the day. It was great having so many parents per group to support all of our students. . Thank you again. 






Eggs

Room Six have been holding onto a secret, we have had a visitor to Tauwhare school daily who is laying an egg. We have been collecting the eggs daily and on Friday 5th March we learnt if the egg is rotten or ok to eat by seeing if the egg floats or sinks.  We then practised cracking the eggs and then we made scrambled eggs. We tasted them and thought that Miss Slade makes yummy scrambled eggs. We have been busy having a lot of fun with eggs. 




The guinea pigs visit Room 6.

Last Wednesday Ms Quinn brought the guinea pigs into Room 6 for a visit so the children could learn about guinea pigs and how we look after them at school.  After the children had had cuddles and shared their ideas they had a photo with Oreo (the quiet piggie) and then wrote their ideas.  You can see their photos and read their stories here.




2020 Calf Club and Flower show


What a fantastic day at calf club and flower show we had! I was so proud of all of the students either the way they created their sand saucers and vegetable art or how they cared and presented their chosen animals Here are a few photos from the day 

We had Rory, Isabelle, Marek, Laura, Clara and Angie-May participate with an animal this year. It requires a lot of time and effort in rearing your animal and I was so proud of these students with how they managed and cared for their pet. I am sure they have inspired some of the other Room 6 students to rear an animal next year. 

Isablelle's with her lamb

Rory with Lucky the goat

Georgia's vegetable art

Jack's sand art

 SPACE

As part of my within school leader role here at Tauwhare School. I have been looking at increasing students digital literacy understanding using the platform of seesaw and storytelling. The importance of young students in learning and understanding while being informed about technologies is vitally important especially from a young age. Students are using digital devices to further their understanding while using it as a resource for knowledge and allows them to be connected to more content and the wider world. Room 6 have created fantastic space books that  shares their facts and knowledge about space. Here are their QR codes. This will take you to a seesaw webpage where you will be able to view their work. 


While we were also busy creating our digital stories. The students were involved in a 3d art project. They project worked in creating a whole class 3d solar system. That now hangs in the middle of our classroom. The students are so proud of their work, as am I. Come in and check it out. 

Georgia

Rory

Riccardo

Marek

Lucy

Laura G

Laura S

Jack

Fletcher

Coupah

Angie-May

FIRST AID


Rory and Clara practicing some of the skills that we learning during our session

Harry and Fletcher being excellent demonstrators! Well done Boys!

The skills that they have learnt will help them if they ever need to help or look after someone that needs it. Well done girls 

Magic Jelly bean Tree 

In Room 6, we read a poem that was about a Jellybean tree and the magic that comes along with a jellybean tree. The students wanted to plant some seeds and see what would happen! We had to wait overnight and see what was going to happen! And MAGIC! We had some fantastic writing full of adjectives and similes! Well done Room 6

Home learning  

Here are some of the fantastic projects that occurred during home learning! What a great effort by all the students and their families.  We had a range of daily challenges and the students had to think outside of the box on how they were to present their challenge. 


TWENTY TWENTY

Welcome to the class of 2020 in Room 6.

We are a fun, energetic class of 18, year 2 students. We are loving all aspects of our school and ready to take on the learning that this year brings

Here is what we have been up to already.... 

We are lucky enough to have an amazing orchard of fruit around the school. We have brought the classroom outside, used our measuring skills to create delicious muffins and eat juicy plums. 

Apple and Rhubarb muffins. 

Ingredients

Method


Rhubarb and Apple muffins. 

Elf on the shelf. 


We have had a new enrollment into Room 6 over the past few weeks, Cocoa got her name from the class by each having a vote on what name they liked the best. Cocoa has been very cheeky from taking the teachers stickers, writing her own certificate, going for a swim, playing twister, escaping from the classroom. The students all loved coming back to class after the break and seeing what Cocoa got up too. It was beautiful to see the magic come alive and the students enjoy the last few weeks of the year.


I want to wish you all a lovely holiday. Merry Christmas to you all, be safe and I look forward to seeing you all in the new year. Keep up the reading and writing over the holidays. 

Becks 


Osmo 

Osmo is an amazing manipulative digital tool that enhances learning opportunities with game pieces to support. We first started with maths numbers and used this to support our maths programme in class. Students could use this individually or in pairs and work on the learning with that.  The other tool was the coding app which teaches key computational thinking and skills with a hands on approach. This is always a hit and my kids loved using this one too. Find out lots more information here on the Osmo website.  

Students have been introduced to the words and coding games using OSMO! It is a fun and great new way to include digital technology into their learning while still being hands on 


See here for a video on how we use it in our class. 


Production- What a fantastic show! Well done to Room 6 who got up and danced the best friends dance. The students loved getting all dressed up and face painted. I was so proud of the way the students preformed. 


Calf Club day and the Flower Show.

What a fantastic day for all of the students. The students had a great time creating their sand saucers. We have some creative artists in our class. Well done to all the winners :) Below are a few photos of what we got up too. 

Sylvie entered her lamb into Calf Club day (Cotton was her name) Sylvie and Cotton walked away with three trophies and lots of ribbons. It is a huge responsibility to have a lamb with daily interactions and feedings. Huge congratulations, looking forward to seeing how they get on at Group day this week. 


Principal for the Day! 

Liam was fantastic as principal for the day! Room 6 were lucky to have a visit from the kid principal. Liam talked with the kids, helped them with their work, offered support and feedback on their work, he even had some beautiful principal stickers that the kids were lucky enough to get. Room 6 may have asked for a bouncy castle and monster trucks, he said we needed to ask another day! It was worth the try. 



ZERO WASTE.... ' X' girl visited Room 6 today, she shared valuable information with us on how we can make our lunch boxes rubbish free, from using beeswax wraps and reusable containers it was great to see some of the students already using these items. The students have a goal for tomorrow to reduce their rubbish in their lunches. We were amazed with how many landfills there are in New Zealand and that NZ creates 30 stories of rubbish every month in rubbish! We have made great changes in Room 6 with just recycling our paper and only sending away half a rubbish bin to the landfill. Next terms goal is to send none! 

Ruben The Road Safety Bear.

On the 13.09.2019, Tauwhare School were lucky to have a visit from Ruben the road safety bear. The Junior school thoroughly enjoyed his visit and took away some very important messages to keep ourselves safe when near the road. With summer coming up and being outdoors this was a well timed visit. Here are a few of the different messages that we learnt.. 

GET DOWN.... GET LOW.... GET OUT

Firewise: The junior school were lucky to have a great session with Jason the fireman. The students had a great time having ago at getting out of the classroom as they would if there was a fire.  We had been having a lot of conversations around what was a toy and what was a tool (eg matches etc) and what we should do if we find these around. The students were fantastic and very practical with their responses. Great work Room 6. 


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FATHERS DAY 

Happy Fathers Day to all of our dads! The students in Room 6 had a lovely time making their dad's a short video which was sent to them on Sunday. Such lovely feedback from the parents about the videos. What a moment to treasure. See our video of all the students. 


Cross Country: Room 6 had a great time at cross country and with all of the hard training that they did prior to the big event they did so well. I am so proud of them all. Students were told at the beginning of the term that if they train as if it was the race they will succeed. Well done to all of the runners. 

6 Year Old Boys

1st Ezra 

2nd Joe 

3rd Kyle (Room 7)

6 Year Old Girls

1st Laura.S   (Room 7) 

2nd Lacey 

3rd Sylvie 

7 Year old girls 

1st 

2nd  Maia 

3rd 

 

Week 5: We have been learning and exploring "Lions" this past week, the students all wrote fantastic stories and reports about Lions. Room 6 has been working on publishing their own work and here are a few of them. Above, Joe created a fantastic lion using shapes and no prompts. Well done Joe. 

The BIG king of the Jungle. 

Lions can jump high. Lions can hunt for their dinner. Lions hunt zebras. Did you know that lions are the strongest animal in the world? Did you know that lions are the king of the jungle. They have got strong and spikey teeth to help them eat their food. Lions like all kinds of meat. They like to eat people, so watch out. 

By Tika.


Week Three/ Term 3 

We had a very busy week in Room 6. We have been learning about similes and taking what we learnt with Julia (Digital Technology) to create an animation for our stories. 

Check out some of our similes: 

The baby lamb is jumping like a deer. The baby lamb is as playful as a little brother: Liam O.

The elephant has big ears too, its ears are as big as car tires. - Sylive. 

The baby lamb is like a hungry bear eating fresh green grass- Ivan.





All About Me

Although we are just little people, we are going to grow up some day. Come on a journey with us to see who we are and who we would like to become when we grow up....

Google Drive : All about me

We have discovered lots of interesting things about who we are and what we like to do.

Harvesting the Veggie Garden

Room 5 invited Room 6 to have a day of harvesting and cooking some produce from our own Veggie Garden at school. We harvested corn, cherry tomatoes, courgettes, capsicum and spring onions. Take a look at our yummy corn chowder and Courgette slice.

Whale Bay - Rocky Shore visit

This year we had the privilege to visit Whale bay in Raglan and learn all about the wonderful sea creatures that live in Rock pools in New Zealand waters. From Purple Rock Crabs to Sea Stars and Neptune's Necklace... we discovered a world of wonders and our excitement was uncontainable. Back at school the students in Room 6 created their own Rock Pool and used air dry clay to form many interesting rock critters.

2018

Monarch Butterflies

During the first few weeks of the year, we had lots of Monarch Butterfly activity in Room 6. Kind parents donated some Swan plants and little did we know that there were little Caterpillars already eating away at the juicy leaves. Very soon we had about 30 caterpillars munching away at the Swan Plants until there were only twigs left. The children had a wonderful opportunity to see the whole lifecycle in action and the newly hatched butterflies were welcomed every morning with great excitement.

Google Drive :  Learning and experiences around butterflies

Monarch Butterflies Wall display

Rainbow colours

We were inspired by the many rainbows we see outside at this time of year and in our writing we used similes to describe the beautiful colours of the rainbow.

Google Drive :  Rainbow art and writing

Shared Book : I am a Smarty Pants by Joy Cowley

Room 7 came for a visit on "Step In day" and we enjoyed sharing the wonderful creativity of author Joy Cowley. Take a look at our art and explanations on why we are so "SMART"!

Google Drive : I am a smarty pants

Statistical Investigations

Part of our Mathematics this term included doing some Statistical Investigations. We discovered that we can group the same objects together, count how many we have of a specific object and also create a Tally chart to show our findings. Our graphs included pictographs and bar graphs.

Google Drive : Statistics 

Pink Day at Tauwhare School

Room 6 had a wonderful day supporting the"Anti Bullying" campaign. We dressed up all in pink, made some flags with positive logos on them and participated in our very own parade.

Google Drive : Pink Day

Celebrating Matariki

Room 6 has been very busy exploring with different colours of food colouring. We have read the story of Matariki and learnt how Tangotango and Wainui had to make a plan to settle their daughters who were annoying the other starts by whizzing and swooshing around them.  

Google Drive : Matariki Artwork showing the 7 stars of Matariki

Room 6 has studied different legends and myths around Maui. The students created Cartoon strips and artwork around "How Maui slowed the sun."

Google Drive : How Maui slowed the sun

On Friday 29th June 2018,  Tauwhare School celebrated Matariki by performing to our whanau and friends of our school showcasing our learning around Matariki.

Google Drive : Matariki celebration : Whole school Performance

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Talking Robots

Room 6 has been learning all about shapes during our Geometry Unit. We had heaps of fun finding shapes in the world around aus and decided to create these colourful talking robots using our Chatterpix App on the i-pads. Take a look...

Google Drive : Talking Robots

Google Drive : Shape creations

Ruben the Road safety Bear

We have learnt how to cross the road safely at the pedestrian crossing.

Holding hands with an adult is always a good safe way to cross the road.

Wear bright colours and make your seatbelt click!

Wearable Arts Parade 2018

Throughout Term 3 Room 5 and 6 have been engaging in cultural studies around two Ethnic tribes from Africa. The Masai that live in Kenya and Tanzania as well as the Zulus that live in South-Africa. As part of their learning the girls did some cross stitch and bead work and created beautiful neckpieces, headbands and bracelets. The boys did cross stitch on their leg flaps and made shields along with head bands.  We celebrated as a whole school by participating in a Wearable Arts parade that was enjoyed by all.

Google Drive : Wearable Arts 2018

Flower arrangements and Veggie creations

During Calf Club Day this year all the non-participating students created flower arrangements and Veggie"animals". What a fun filled morning. Everybody jumped in and brought some flowers from their own gardens  and there was no shortage of colour and fragrances in the air. The judges surely had their work cut out for them! Take a look

Google Drive : Flower arrangements

X-man

Matua Paul (X-man) came to teach us all about recycling. We had lots of fun playing with all the puppets and games created out of recycled materials. Take a look

Google Drive : X- Man