We have found a great interactive site that helps to teach you about nutrition.

Click on the link above

Our Pepeha

As part of our Maori programme we have been learning a class pepeha, because we live in Whangarei and are part of a class whanau. It tells you our maunga, awa, waka, marae, iwi, hapu and whanau.

Bike Day

Our school celebrated Bike Day as it is a way to keep fit and healthy. Middle syndicate went out together and set a course for the cyclists. It proved a bit hard because the grass was rather long. However we had fun and had a healthy glow at the end to show all the hard work we were doing!

Bike Day on PhotoPeach

Whanau Healthy Picnic

Our Immersion activity this week was to have a whanau healthy picnic. Two girls from other classes showed us their creative talents in making their own environmentally friendly lunchbox. Here are a few photos of Kauri whanau showing us their healthy lunchboxes.

kauri Healthy Picnic on PhotoPeach

Healthy Me

Our concept this term is Healthy Me. Using Comic Life, we took our photo, created our name using lettering and wrote about ways we keep healthy.

Healthy Me on PhotoPeach

Our Wordles

We created wordles to describe ourselves and put our photos on them as well.

Enjoy and let us introduce ourselves to you

Outdoor Education

Last week, we participated in Outdoor Education Activities. We went Ten Pin Bowling, Caving and to the Adventure Forest. In Ten Pin Bowling we had to be persistent and resilient to try to bowl the pins down. In Caving and the Adventure Forest we certainly needed courage, persistence and be a risk taker to overcome these challenges. It was exciting and fun!

Challenge

Our concept this term has been Challenge. Mrs Wendt set us some fun mini challenge activities i.e. domino runs, juggling, sled skiing, balance board, string games, origami, computer activities(agent ani, questionaut), and elastics. We had to use skills such as persistence, resilience, risk taking, and problem solving to overcome the challenge.

Eco Waste

Anna from eco-waste came to our class and worked with the children on creating a more sustainable planet. We looked at shopping smarter to reduce waste, what we can recycle and reuse. Our challenge was to have a zero waste lunchbox. Our class achieved 92% zerowaste lunchboxes.

Cultures Day

We held a school Cultures day, where the children dressed up in clothes from another culture and Room 13 had a cultural feast. Children bought dishes from their own cultures or kiwiana food.

Zahna Violin

Zahna is in a violin concert and is playing music by Handel and Bach. They are both composers from the baroque era. Zahna dressed in clothes from the baroque period and played the violin for us.

Please enjoy!

Maui Comic Strips

We looked at a Story Library book that had various Maui stories presented as comic strips. We decided to retell our favourite maui story as a comic strip. We created our comic strips first as a story board, then dropped our pictures into kidpix to colour them in. We then imported our kidpix pictures into comic life and added our text and speech bubbles. These are the comic strips that have been completed so far.

Tivaevae Art

As part of our culture unit and geometry, we looked at Tivaevae patterns. We talked about symmetry, repeating patterns and use of light and dark colours.

The Girls in the Kapa Haka

We read Girls in the kapahaka by Angie Belcher. We looked at the structure of the book (a bit like this is the house that Jack built) and added a new verse (sentence) of our own. We then created our page in kidpix and made a book.

Our Culture

We have been sharing our cultures with the class. Our class comes from a variety of different cultures. We decided to celebrate and inform others about our culture using comic life. We had to search google images for pictures relating to our country, flag, traditional activity, food, clothing, what its famous for, designs, and a greeting. We took a photo of ourselves using the capture feature and had to create one of our pictures using kidpix.

Maori Art

We have been creating Maori Artwork using a variety of skills. First we had to weave a mat as a background out of either flax or coloured paper. Next we created a design based on Maori symbols. We then layered this design using 3 layers. It was quite challenging and has taken a long time to complete. Here are some finished pieces of art.

Making Poi

Today we made poi. We made them out of wool, plastic bags, newspaper and dacron (pillow filling) It was quite easy, the hardest part was tying a knot and knowing how to plait!

We will be learning some simple actions with the poi.

Toka Tu Moana

Our school watched a performance by Toka Tu Moana. We were dazzled by their skill at poi, haka, taiaha, and hand games. Their performance was based on a legend of how the seasons came to be. The main character was Maui who was very cheeky and very vain. After the show our Diving Deeper Maori group learnt the Haka.These are some pictures of the show.

Culture Day

The school held a Culture Day today as part of our immersion on Cultures. We started the day watching a virtual marae DVD that takes you on a tour of a marae and tells you the tikanga (protocol) of a marae.
We then went to our school hall to take part in a powhiri. We were the manuhiri and were welcomed on by Kowhai Whanau. We then were the tangata whenua and welcomed Rimu Whanau. During the rest of the day we had a rotation where we did titi torea, art and made ika harakeke (flax fish).

We have been learning about different language features to make our writing more interesting. Some children have made keynotes to use as a teaching resource or an assessment to see if children know what a simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia or metaphor is. Click on each slide to find out.