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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
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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 Room 26 has been doing lots of nitro type and other things on devices like Maths Whizz and working on Google Drive. They have also been doing story writing. They have created some amazing artwork like cold and hot hearts and some snowy mountains with sunset skies. By School Reporters Lenny and Xavier. In Maths, Rooms 21 and 22 have been learning about bar and line graphs and using them to show weather data. In Art, Room 21 have been creating Picasso portraits. Both classes have been studying about what makes a healthy river and are learning about the Longfin Eel/Tuna. They are learning about their food and habitats and they have made information posters. By School Reporters Elsa and Gail For writing, Room 18 have been writing about how it would feel to be the Hulk and they drew amazing pictures of the Incredible Hulk. It was so cool to see! On the day we visited, Mrs Townsend was teaching and they were doing graffiti art. They wrote their names and then made them 3D looking and finally added colour. In maths they have been looking at graphs and they said it has been tricky! By School Reporters Xavier and Lenny On Tuesday we went to the Uretara Stream as part of our unit about Sustainability. We learnt about the water quality of the stream and what insects, critters and other living things live in and around the stream. We found out the water temperature was 21.5 degrees by measuring it with an air temperature. Kate, our wonderful instructor told us that the temperature was quite warm for the animals that lived in the stream. We also tested the PH levels of the stream and found out that it was 6.5. Which means the stream is close to perfect as we would ideally like to see a level of 7. We found lots of bugs around the stream. We found out they need lots of hanging plants to survive. We therefore began to have an understanding of why planting plants around our waterways is so important. Our trip was very fun and informative. By Room 22. Lately Matakana Pod have been to the museum and doing art about birds like the Tui, Fantail, Dove, Blackbird, Pukeko and lots more. On the art they wrote the name of the bird, a picture of the bird, 5 key facts, the habitat and distinctive features. Matakana Pod have also been tracing around their hands and doing pretty patterns on them. They all are so different and amazing! Great job Matakana Pod!!!! By School Reporters Nylah and Ruby. Room 16 have been learning about Captain Cook and have made a treaty about all the values they should show in the classroom. The kids have all signed the treaty. The kids have done some amazing work for Ag Day. Their gumboots look superb! By School Reporters Reuben and Adam. All the Year 5 & 6 students went on camp at Finlay Park. This is what happened.
During camp, the students all participated in fun activities. One of which was the water slide rotation. In this activity the kids would go down both the hydroslide = (extreme) and the blackslide = ( easy ). After that, they would go to the heated pool and relax. Another activity was Animal survival this was when all of the kids would be numbered from top to bottom in the food chain. A wild dog being one of the most predatorial. The adults would be labeled as hunter, flood, fire and disease. All of which could take any animals life. Spread across Skull Island would be 8 food stations and the one who gets the most food station would win the game. One more out of the 6 activities was Go-Karts. Go-Karts was where you had a partner and you hopped in a Go-Kart with a helmet and hand straps. Then one person would drive around a track 2 time then swap over and the other person would have a go. Personally I (Abby) loved the Go-Karts. All of the students slept in rooms of bunk beds. The girls slept in apartments upstairs above the dining room and the boys slept in cabins around the camp. Some students slept in river cabins. At camp there were many fun activities. All the students loved camp. Thank you to all the parents that came and thank you to all of the teachers and all the activity leaders. By School Reporters Abby Osborne & Devon Deas Malo lei lei! ( Hello/ Greetings ) This week was Tongan Language week so we went around the school and interviewed students about what they were doing in their classes. Room 19 were learning how to pronounce greetings and numbers in Tongan. Matakana were doing Tongan lessons. They were learning greetings, goodbyes, numbers. There are Tongan students in their class who we interviewed. Room 8-9 are doing flag art as well as learning the Tongan language. Kaimai has been learning the Tongan language and doing quizzes to help remember them. Room 21 have been colouring flags and collecting information about Tonga whilst also learning the native Tongan language. By School Reporters Devon & Abby  |
