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Room 25 has been doing work based around the Maori culture and Matariki, including Poupeu writing and writing about the Battle of Gate Pa. Being the Tuakana of Matakana Pod, they have had to be role models for the younger children in Rooms 23 and 24, thereby practising responsibility and leadership, along with the mori values. Kia kaha! Room 25 have also been working on the Zones of Regulation as a way to label and manage their emotions. By School Reporters Elsa and Gail.
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Room 21 have been doing different types of art like pohutukawa art and the City of Troy art plus feeling poems. For Maths they have been learning about division and fractions. In strand maths they have been learning about shapes, weight and length. For Inquiry they have been learning about coding and working on Scratch. In Writing they have been reading Odysseus and working on Greek mythical creatures. Room 22 have been doing different types of art like pattern art, autumn writing and art, their Pepehas and around the ERICA values. For Inquiry they have been doing products by making the brand then drawing them. They have also been working on their learning goals. For Maths Room 22 are learning how to times 2 digits by 2 digits and learning how to do it in different ways and the way that is right for them. In Writing they are learning how to edit their work, especially their spelling. By School Reporters Isla & Mel Room 18 has been working very hard this week with their pink shirt day activities for anti-bullying. They all decorated a beautiful T-shirt, which had kind messages on them. They have also been working on how to improve their writing skills. Now they are pros at making boring words exciting! Room 18 has also been learning to write in different text styles. By School Reporters Leandre and Ava Room 17 have been visiting their buddy class, Room 9 this year. They have done some reading with them, inside and outside of the classroom. When they finished reading they played a game of seaweed all together. They were showing citizenship by making new friends and they respected each other by listening and learning. We liked how they showed ERICA values and listened to each other. By School Reporters Melanie and Ava Room 22 has done amazing art for the start of the year, including colourful sun art. We especially enjoyed the Erica values wall. In Writing, Room 22 have been writing about their holidays. Room 21 has also done great art this year with their class tree, the shields about themselves and the Giant Wave artwork. They have created posters around the classroom about how to look after classroom equipment, especially devices. In Writing, Room 21 have been reading a book called Floodlands, where the world’s sea levels have risen and a girl called Zoe is trying to survive. All their writing has been around this book. Keep up the good work and we hope you have a great rest of your year! By School Reporters Kaia and Frank. This week Rooms 21 and 22 have been working very hard on maths, reading and literacy. They are focused and good listeners. They should be very proud of themselves. The children in Room 21 have fractions stuck in their heads and you don’t want to challenge them! Room 22 has been doing long and short division. They have also been doing some maths games that are pretty hard. For reading, Room 21 has been doing Lapland research, and other activities on their book, Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights. In Room 22 they have been doing activities on the book Wonder and on David Walliams. Both rooms have been learning about gravity, heat and energy as part of their physical world Inquiry topic! By School Reporters Ruby and Mia This week we had the bug man come to Katikati Primary School and four lucky children from each class got to go see him. He was talking about lots of different bugs including cicadas, baby cicadas, millipedes, centipedes and beetles. He said that if we didn't have bugs we would not have fantails. The Bug Man is crazy because he was in the newspaper holding a glottic tarantula spider! By School Reporters Lenny and Xavier Today we had Agricultural Day with all of the year groups and animals: Pluto, Rosey, Venes and Splash. The goat was called Lasen and the Cross was called Patches. All the lambs were fluffy, soft and very, very cute. The owners were proud of themselves when they won the awards and they had big smiles on their faces when they called their names. In the end everyone was a winner! By School Reporters Ruby, Mia and Ava There were lots of activities taking place across all classrooms last week in celebration of Te Wiki o te Reo Maori. Here is a selection! Rooms 26 and 27 have been creating Maori chatterboxes. In Room 21 they drew their dream houses and labelled the rooms Te Reo, as well as writing Maori versions of myths and legends from around the world. Room 18 created Maori patterns and Room 17 did some cool Maori bookmarks. Room 25 made some delicious hangi with Rooms 23 and 24. In Room 24 the boys made a game and the girls made pois - we had a hard time taking the photo of the girls with their pois! Room 23 made amazing Maori mountains. Room 13 made a puzzle game where you get a picture of a stationery and put its Maori name beside it. Room 11 coloured some Maori suns. Room 9 and Room 2 drew and coloured some magnificent taniwha. Room 4 made pretty cool hanging moons and Room 1 made some clay spirals. By School Reporters Grayson and Chenoa On Wednesday 2nd September Room 17 were making little houses made out of cob. The ingredients were 2 cups of dirt and 1 cup of sand, then they put the mixture into a container. But before they made the houses they had to put tiny bits of chopped up hay in, then they poured small bits of water at a time until they had made the perfect substance. Then they made squares or brick shapes and let them dry. While they dried Vanch, Brody and Bradon told us how to make doors for their houses. To make the doors you need paint cardboard and wood. When their houses dried they put wet newspaper on. After all of the hard work, they put roofs on! They looked so cool! By School Reporters Tresna & Madison |
