Tuesday 24 May 2016

James @ Tamaki Primary School: Technology

James @ Tamaki Primary School: Technology: I am learning to write about what we did at technology. I hope you can comment on my work so I can see what I need to work on or to see w...

Friday 13 May 2016

Wednesday 11 May 2016

Frances @ Tamaki Primary School: Technology Reflection

Frances @ Tamaki Primary School: Technology Reflection: Today in Technology I was in Mrs Tuipulotu's cooking class.  This week we made Rock cake. My buddy was Ana. We made a total of 15 r...

Nita @ Tamaki Primary School: Reading For Pleasure Writing For Leisure

Nita @ Tamaki Primary School: Reading For Pleasure Writing For Leisure: Today in the first block our class has been focusing on the question 'What makes a good reader and writer'. We had to write down ...

Metui @ Tamaki Primary School: What kind of reader am I?

Metui @ Tamaki Primary School: What kind of reader am I?: In this DLO I talked about what kind of reader am I.  I put pictures referring to the words.

Wednesday 4 May 2016

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Marcus @ Tamaki Primary School: Marcus @ Tamaki Primary School: Marcus - Bayonet B...: Marcus @ Tamaki Primary School: Marcus - Bayonet Brother’s forest : Bayonet Brother’s forest The more people that die, the bigger the list T...

Marcus @ Tamaki Primary School: Marcus @ Tamaki Primary School: Marcus - Bayonet B...

Marcus @ Tamaki Primary School: Marcus @ Tamaki Primary School: Marcus - Bayonet B...: Marcus @ Tamaki Primary School: Marcus - Bayonet Brother’s forest : Bayonet Brother’s forest The more people that die, the bigger the list T...

Tuesday 3 May 2016

Raechal @ Tamaki Primary School: Parkour

Raechal @ Tamaki Primary School: Parkour: WALA Parkour Today we were learning about parkour and what its is. So what is parkour? Parkour is a type of sport which contains ...

Calais @ Tamaki Primary School: Vocabulary

Calais @ Tamaki Primary School: Vocabulary: Were and learning about using complete our learning tasks. I hope you like Me and my Buddies work. By Calais & Matthew.

Raena @ Tamaki Primary School: The Rules Summary

Raena @ Tamaki Primary School: The Rules Summary: WALT: Summarise. Today in class I read an AWESOME story called "The Rules" make sure to read this great book. Please give me f...

Huriata @ Tamaki Primary School: Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs Poster

Huriata @ Tamaki Primary School: Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs Poster: Hi there, long time no blog'n. I am back for 2016 and here is the work that I am displaying. We are learning about th...

Kenneth @ Tamaki Primary School: Bullying

Kenneth @ Tamaki Primary School: Bullying

Kira @ Tamaki Primary School: Digital learning object

Kira @ Tamaki Primary School: Digital learning object: W.A.L.T:We are learning to extend our vocabulary by looking up new words

Gary @ Tamaki Primary School: Why we have Season's

Gary @ Tamaki Primary School: Why we have Season's: Here is a DLO about the 4 seasons in New Zealand. My class task was to find 3 websites about why we have the 4 season's Please leave ...

Rosemary @ Tamaki Primary School: Happy Feet T1W11

Rosemary @ Tamaki Primary School: Happy Feet T1W11: The Happy Feet.T1W11

James @ Tamaki Primary School: Happiness poem

James @ Tamaki Primary School: Happiness poem: I hope you can comment on my work so I can see what I have been improving on and to see what I need to work on. Thank you!

Monday 2 May 2016

Paige @ Tamaki Primary School: Syria Refugees

Paige @ Tamaki Primary School: Syria Refugees: WALA: what would we do if this many refugees wanted to come and live in New Zealand. So today I have created this presentation about Refug...

Petra @ Tamaki Primary School: Time

Petra @ Tamaki Primary School: Time: WALT:Research what time is. Today in class we researched questions that would build up to our main question which was "What is time?...

First week of Term 2 - ANZAC Day - school wide learning focus

This week our whole school is learning about ANZAC Day.
Our main areas of learning for this week are:

  • The ANZAC's landing at Gallipoli
  • ‘In Flander’s Fields’ poem
  • World War I stories
  • How did World War I start?
Poppy Flower, Flower, Purple,

Narrative Writing
We have been writing narratives from the viewpoint of a child, soldier, nurse, medic, doctor, mother or father of a soldier.

British Army uniform and


'Gallipoli - The scale of our war'
A great website we have viewed is through the Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. It is an informative mosaic about life during World War I.  Take a look at this website by clicking on the heading above. If you click on each picture or heading you will learn about something new.



How did World War I start?
We have been learning about how World War I started.  It is a complex piece of history, which involved a lot of European countries who took sides against each other.  It is written that when Archduke Franz Ferdinand from a country called Austro-Hungary was assassinated and the Germans and Russians would not retreat from each others' borders that war began.  New Zealand and Australian soldiers became involved in World War I because they were allies with Great Britain.


Other resolutions: 196 × 240
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
'In Flanders Fields' - poem by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
For our class item at our school ANZAC Day Service one of our students is to read out this well known poem, while the remainder of our class will lie down on the ground and hold up a white cross. Some students from our buddy class Room 2 will wave red poppies between the crosses, just like the poem says.
We are going to make the poppies and crosses together.


John McCrae—6 cent stamp