Kahurangi: People of the Pacific

This week Hampstead School had some special visitors! A group called Kahurangi came to visit and performed a show called People of the Pacific. They took us on a trip around all the Pacific Islands including, Tahiti, Samoa, Rarotonga, Hawaii and last but not least..... Aotearoa!! 

They sang, performed dances, taught us greetings, and told us a few facts about the different islands.

Here are some photos from the show:

Japanese Visit

Konnichi Wa!

Last Friday Hampstead School were lucky enough to have some Japanese students visit us. We started off the day with an assembly to greet them, where some of our students performed some items and so did theirs.

Room 13 had a group of 5 students visit us and we were taught how to use chopsticks! They showed us how to hold them, let us practise, played a game with us and then gifted us with some food-shaped rubbers. We felt so lucky!

Here are some photos of Room 13 using chopsticks!

Zayla having a go at holding them.

Austin giving it a shot.

A student shows Josh how it's done!

Go Cooper!

Awesome skills Alex!

Brandon giving it a shot!

Danielle is a pro.

Reneea's got skills.

Zayla, Reneea and Ashley helping each other...

Riley's nearly there!

Sometimes we had to use two hands...

We had fun with the Japanese students!

Out of this World Weaving!

Here are our Space Weaving pictures! Creating these took a few steps.
First we had to use some sparkly paint to add a starry feel to our black paper. Next we created our rockets by weaving paper together and then creating a pointy top, wings and fire blasting. Then we weaved blue and purple ribbon through our sparkly backgrounds. Next we cut out some stars, planets, comets from sparkly paper to add to our background. Here are our finished results! We are so proud.

Maths in Room 13

Lately in Room 13 we have been looking at patterns!

We pretended we worked in a supermarket, and created a "Tin Can" Display using plastic cups. We had to fill in a table to find out how many "tins" we would need to create a display that was 10 rows high!

The pattern was to add an extra cup to the bottom row each time!

We figured it out using the pattern then tried to build it! But we found out we didn't have enough cups...

We tried to make our own arrangements up too!  

We found out you have to have a steady hand for this job!

Maths is fun in Room 13!

Term 2 Weaving

Over.... Under..... Over.... Under...

Here is some more of our fantastic weaving artwork! We have been working hard in Room 13.

Some of Room 13 with our woven boats!

Close ups of our boats - how cool are they!?

Busy painting a picture to weave!

Making woven rockets... check back next week for our finished products!

Tyson proud of his rocket!

Weaving can be messy.... but it's fun!

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