Duncan's Guitar Show

Yesterday Room 14 was treated to a talent show... featuring our very own Duncan! 

He has been taking guitar lessons after lunchtime every Wednesday this year and he wanted to show us what he had learnt.

Take a look at the video Miss Brown took of him performing 'Rock around the Clock' 

Voting for a New Flag

Today in Room 14 we sang lots of songs - in one of the songs it talked about politicians. That left some of us wondering what a politician was and what they did.

We found out that a politician is like a member of our student council and they have ideas to make NZ better (sometimes) and they can make rules and laws that we have to live by.

We learnt that they are wanting to change our flag... some of us were happy about that and some of us weren't! So we held a class vote...

Miss Brown showed us our current flag and the new flag options, and then we voted! 

These were our choices 

We then had to write a number on our voting slip and put it into the voting box - Miss Brown counted them up and we had a tie between flags 3 & 4.
So we voted again!!! 

Wow! Lots of votes!! 

As a class we voted that flag number 4 should be our new flag... I wonder what you guys think!? Add a comment to tell us which you would want. 

Tane and the Stars... with Music!!

We got to choose an instrument to make the music to Tane and the Stars. By Harry

We had to choose each instrument that went on each page to make the noises in the story. By Zac

Harry read the story about Tane and the Stars. By Annaliese

Each person got to play the instrument when Harry read each page. By Apaiata

We felt excited and we had fun when we had a little play with the instruments. By Zaylah-Cru 

Japanese Student Visit

Last Friday we sat in the hall and we sang some songs. They were 'We don't care' and 'Happy'. By Brock

Then the Japanese students sang us a song from Big Hero 6 and did a dance. By Hayden

Some of the Japanese students came to Room 14. By Alfred

We played games and we had a pretend gun. We had to try and hit the balloons with a rubber band. By Charlotte

Then we played another game. It was yo-yos and we got stickers. By Saydie

The Expolding Milk Experiment

On Monday Room 14 made exploding milk. We put milk in a container and some food colouring and we dipped it into the milk. By Kelly 

Then we dipped dishwashing liquid into the milk and the milk moved and made different shapes. By Duncan 

Next we put vinegar and baking soda into the milk. Then it rose up and the milk got bubbly. By Kaha

It looked like people swimming in the swimming pool. By Maa

We poured it into each containers and it bubbled up more. By Kalotia 

Kymani-Cruz and the Taiaha Performance

Below is a blog post about the Kahurangi Dance group coming to perform at our school.

Here is the video of Kymani-Cruz doing some taiaha movements.

Kahurangi Dance Show

On Tuesday the whole school went in the hall to see the Kahurangi dance show. The people that were there were two girls and three boys. By Kymani-Cruz

The people on the stage performed dances to the whole school. They showed us the Cook Islands dance. By Chanelle

They also did a NZ dance and a Samoan dance and a dance from Hawaii. By Amelia

Kymani-Cruz went on the stage and learnt some moves with the taiaha. By Wiremu 

Then the Kahurangi people sang a goodbye song and the whole school sang Ka Waiata to them. By Eva