Te Ao Marama

On Friday we had the most wonderful experience at Te Ao Marama in Te Hana. We visited a pa based on one you would have found in the 17th century. Matua Ben and his team greeted us with a powhiri and we were also greeted in the village by a wero. (challenge)

I would highly recommend Te Ao Marama to any class, we learnt so much.

QR Codes

This is a QR code. If you have an iphone, ipod touch or ipad, you can download a QR scanner to read this code and take you to our link for our sfx13 Authors Blog. We are making business cards with these codes on so you can read what we have written about ourselves.

You can go to QR generator sites where you can imput urls (links for internet sites) and create a code that takes you straight to that site.

Swimming Lessons

These are some photos of our swimming lessons.

We think we have made great progress.

All About Me

We are making booklets about Our Story. These are our Comic Life stories

All About Me on PhotoPeach

Wordles

Using a programme called Wordle, we created a wordle using words to describe ourselves.

Outdoor Education

We had two brilliant days last week at Sandy bay surfing and at Adventure Forest, Glenbervie.

These activities give children the opportunity to face their fears and meet challenges. Here are some pictures of our experiences.

Who am I?

As part of book character day we made up Who am I? clues so hat we could guess the characters each person was dressed as.

We also had a go at using the alpha function and placing ourselves in a scene that made us look like we really were the book character

We had a book character day as one of our Immersion Activities for Imagine.

See if you can guess what book characters we are dressed as.

Wacky Wednesday Hair Day

As part of our immersion activities for Imagine, Kauri whanau organised a Wacky Wednesday Hair Day. This is Room 13 at their most wackiest!

Museum Visit

As part of our Taonga concept we went to the Whangarei Museum. We had a wonderful day, and were involved in a programme designed by Pippa. We learnt a lot about the history of museums, what a curator does, the taonga that our museum has, and we visited the Kiwi House.

Seascape Artwork

We read Tangaroa's Gift with Mrs Smith and discussed how the artist used intricate patterns to create the background, the colours she used and how she blended them to create a paua effect. We used korus as the main pattern which we dyed, and black vivid to create intricate patterns in the background.

Taonga Art

We created our own taonga design. We used crayon, and thought about using black shading to create a 3D effect. We were only allowed to use white, black and a cold colour. In the background we used warm colours.

Technology

We needed to design boxes for our prayer stones, we were not given a template we needed to create our own. Our design brief was that it must be able to hold our prayer stone and it must have a lid. It took some of us many attempts before we were successful. Each time we had to think about how we could modify our box so it fit the brief.

Prayer Stones

We made prayer stones as part of our taonga concept.

We will be gifting them to someone special. We are using them in our class as our prayer focus.

Living Treasures

We read a book by Melanie Drewery called The Treasure. We wrote about people or animals that are 'Living Treasures' (taonga) in our own lives. Please read....

We have been studying Taonga this term. Children have brought along various taonga to share with the class and explain why they are precious to them. Here are a few of the taonga caption cards children have made.

Ruggerland

This is a maths site set up for the World Cup. It involves answering maths questions to get the treasure. You have to go to locations around New Zealand and answer 3 levels of maths problems to get all the treasure you need. Register now! Click on the picture to get to the link.

Numeracy Skills

I have found a new website called Study Ladder. It has numeracy skill activities for children to do online or your can print them. This link takes you straight to the numeracy skills but there are many other subject areas children can focus on. There are 10 levels with 10 activity sheets at each level. Go online and practise, practise, practise!