Last Friday all of Te Anau School went to the hall and listened to a jazz band.  First we listened to them sing and play, then Lily, Millie, AJ and Jake got up and played the drums.  It was really fun.  They got a small crunchie....yum,yum.  For a while we listened to lots of cool instrumentts then a man sang us a song he wrote.  It was great!  It was sad to see it end but it was great because we are lwarning about the Masterpiece and it was a masterpiece.

Police dogs

This week on the 20th of June 2012 our school was lucky enough to get a visit from some police dogs.  The police men showed us some really cool tricks that their dogs could do.  There was a man volunteering to be bitten.  He was wearing a big red jacket that was full of padding.  He shot a fake gun and the dogs came running after him and they were biting him on the arm and dragging him on the ground.  We are lucky us kids didn't get bitten , we had a great afternoon with the police dogs.

Dance

For the past weeek we have been learning different types of dance like breakdancing, hip hop, highland, irish, canadian, japanese and many more.  We also came up with our own dances.  Here are some examples of the different types of dance we learnt about: (Click on the links to have a look)
Hip Hop
Canadian
Georgian Dance
Breakdancing
We hope you enjoy :-)

Maori Simon Says......

This term we have been learning a game called Maori simon says.......

This is how you play the game..

1.  You get a person to be the caller, then the caller has to say Maori words like Whakararaniga-Line up.  The players need to do what the caller says.

2.  If you don't so what the caller says you are out.

3.  Be hard on the people and do really hard words and the last person to stand is the winner

We hope you have fun :)

Room 5's Fun Reports

Here are some pictures and  videos of our cool reports we have been working on. We hope you like them!!!!!!! By Group Two Lydia, Reece, Damian, Daisy, Lindsay, Todd, Isabella and Olivia.

Wai Water Investigations

This week we are busy getting ready to present our water work to Room Four.  We have each chosen something we would like to learn more about and have designed and carried out our own investigations to find out the answers to our questions.  Some of the things we are learning about are: hydro electricity, the water cycle, science experiments and much more.  Room Four will come to visit us next Friday to see what we have been doing and then we will go and find out what they have been doing.  Here are some pictures of our afternoons work.

Yesterday we were very lucky to have a visit from Forrest's puppy Rose.  She is 12 weeks old and very bouncy and fun.  Here are some photos of her.