A call from the sea

Welcome back to Term 2! We hope you all had a great holiday, we sure did.  

Room 2 kicked started off the term with a video call from scientists on a ship called the Joides Resolution (you can check out their website here).  The Joides Resolution is a deep-sea drilling ship that has been out in what is called the Hikurangi subduction zone, 1km away from Gisborne.

Here is a picture of some of us talking with one of the ship's scientists - Aliki.  She was showing us some of the fossils that they study on the ship, she also showed us the Drill string, the labs and the lifeboats.  Unfortunately, we didn't get to see outside on the deck because the weather had been pretty rough and it was very slippery outside.

This term we will be conducting some of our own experiments just like the scientists on the Joides Resolution.

Get Writing NZ 2018

Room 2 has been busy writing poems.  This was all thanks to School Kit who organised this awesome event around New Zealand.  Our class was buddied up with another class in New Zealand, we sent a poster with interesting information such as how many children were in our families, who could roll their tongue or waggle their ears and some of our favourite words we like the sound of.  We also had to write on postcards, we wrote poems about ourselves using metaphors and we decided to share our class treaty and some other rules on the extra postcards.



Today we received a parcel from St Mary's Catholic School in Rotorua, here is a timelapse of us putting together postcards sent by the wonderful students of Room 2.  Before we put together the postcards, we were reading the poems on the other side.  Their poems were interesting and some were very funny, their names were very cool (Kaia from our class smiled when she saw that they have a Kaia as well).  We are going to visit their class blog on Monday and leave them a thank you note for the wonderful taonga they have sent us.