Have a great long weekend!

Buddy Class

When Room 5 visited Whanganui Museum they learnt how to make a small taonga puoro called a porotiti. They decided to share their learning with us. In pairs we used a template to cut the shape out of thick cardboard, then we drilled some small holes for the string, and finally we selected and drew some maori art designs on them. We really enjoyed making these with our buddy class.

 

BIG BOOKS

We love our Big Books!

We wrote postcards to Harry McFarr about his clunker car and told him what we liked about his story.

We became detective’s like Suzee Sing and used our spyglasses to explain who we thought was causing problems at the museum.

 

 

Gala Day

What an amazing day! We raised $13 000 for our school! Thank you so much for all your help and support. The Gala was a huge success and everyone had a fantastic time!

 

We are really enjoying our cricket lessons! Today we put the new skills we have learnt into practice and played a game of cricket. Boys against girls! We also received our free bats today!

 

Swimming Sports

What a fantastic afternoon for Swimming Sports! I am so proud of all your hard work in swimming this term, you have all improved so much. Well done Room 2!! Thanks to all the parents who came to support!

 

Today we had a visit from Manu from Te Manawa as part of our Maoritanga topic. He gave us further information about maraes and what roles people have on them. He also showed us lots of traditional Maori instruments and tools. It was fascinating to listen to them!! At the end he taught us a waiata.

 

Marae visit

This term we are going to be learning about Maoritanga. Today we all visited Taumata o te Ra marae in Halcombe.

We learnt:

·        You have to be welcomed onto a marae

·        Girls walk in first but sit at the back

·        Boys walk in second but sit at the front

·        You need to take your shoes off when going into the wharenui

·        Some of the carvings show the families connected to the marae  

·        How to hongi when you are greeting someone

When we left the girls were given a flax flower to remember the trip

 

 

Buddy Writing

Today we had Buddy Writing. One of us was the writer and the other was the storyteller. We worked together on a piece of writing and then shared it with the class. This was lots of fun and we wrote amazing stories. Miss McCartin was so happy to see us helping each other to become better writers.

 

Buddy Class

Our big buddies in Room 5 helped us with our swimming today. Afterwards we got to have a free swim. It was great fun after such a hot day!!

 

Cricket

Today was the first of several cricket lessons we're having at school. This is a great opportunity for us to improve our ball skills and understanding of cricket. We had heaps of fun!

Maori Art

Check out our awesome art work. We learnt that the Koru represents the fern frond as it opens bringing new life and peace. The Twist represents life, love and eternity. The Hei- Matau (fish hooks) represent strength and a great respect for the sea. They also give good luck and safety when traveling over the water.

Garden

We planted our vegetable garden today. We can’t wait for it to grow so we can eat our yummy Cabbage, Broccoli, Lettuce, Carrots and Silver beet. It was a great day to be out gardening!

Swimming

We have had a fantastic start to swimming this year! Our confidence is growing and we are learning lots of new techniques to help us become better swimmers.