We have been learning to sing this song. It is called Paradise and has been written by Waimarie Smith who is from Northland. This song won a song competition for NZ music month. It is a beautiful song and we just love singing it. We will be teaching the school this song at our next assembly. You can listen to it on youtube and learn how to sign while singing the song.

Taonga

Some of us brought our precious taonga to school to share with the class. We explained why it was taonga to us and our families. Some taonga were very old and had been handed down through our families, they are a link to our past.

Making Compost with Anna

Our world is a gift from God. It is a taonga which we all need to respect, honour and cherish. We are all kaitiaki for our world. Anna from Eco Solutions worked with us in Term 2. We learnt to make compost, to reduce our rubbish, recycle and make something useful out of our food scraps. Compost is food for plants, and we learnt how easy it is to make. Watch out parents we all want to make some for our gardens.

Soccer Skills

We were very fortunate to have 5 weeks of soccer skills with Owen. We enjoyed this immensely and will have more in Term 3. We learnt to kick, dribble, pass, and trap the ball.

Did You Ever

We talked about how there can be living treasures are friends are people we respect and cherish. We wrote a simple poem about our friends called Did You Ever.


Di d You ever on PhotoPeach

Taonga Immersion

Our Concept for Term 2 was Taonga. For our Immersion activity we had a series of close up photos. We had to search all around the school to find the taonga that these photos were taken of. It was harder than we thought.

Catholic Schools Day

On Catholic Schools Day we worked in our whanau groups. In Room 20 we had children from Rooms 18, 19, 20 and 21.

Kiwi Favs

I was in my bed and then I was shocked with surprise because my mum told me that my family had won. I said "what did we win?" and my mum said "the Kiwi favs competition" I froze like an ice block. Then my mum said "get up we need to go to Auckland". When we were in Auckland we got lost but luckily my dad had a map of Auckland.So we followed the map and we got there just in time to We had to have make-up on us, so we don't shine at the camera. I was so nervous but when I got on there I was confident and the best part was when I got to eat the cheese. When it was over it was 9 o'clock so we went back to the hotel. The next week it was on TV. We were so excited we jumped up and down. Here is the Kiwi Favs ad we made.

Melanie's Taonga

Hi this is my Taonga It has gems on it.It has gold around it and it has a humongous dark blue bit in the middle and it has three tassles. I got it when I was five, my nana gave it to me before she died. My nana gave it to me because we have handed it down through the generations.It's a taonga to me because my nana was really special to me and she had a sweet tooth because she gave Blake and I sweets. She died four years ago.

Karaka whanau song

This is a snippet of our whanau song that children from room 18 composed (lyrics and tune) Tumeke Karaka whanau

Tri Kids Grand Final

On Wednesday 10.4.13 we went to the tri kids grand final at Whangarei Primary School. Angus came 2nd in all of the year 4 boys. Melanie came 2nd in all of the year 4 girls.The hard bit was the swimming because every one pushed in. Over all we came 3rd. I hope next time we win the trophy. It was an exciting and fun day.
By Angus and Melanie

Summer Sports

We were fortunate to participate in the Summer Sports Tournament. We could choose to play v ball (netball), Turbo Touch, League Tag, Fuzball (indoor soccer) or baseball. It was a beautiful day, and as the day went on our teams got better and more skilled. Fun was had by all and we look forward to the Winter Tournament.

Summer Sports - slideshows

Tri Kids

As part of Hauora we were lucky to have Mr Healey in our school to introduce us to the world of Triathlon. We had to go on a slippery slide(swimming component), bike and run. We raced each other and had a terrific time!

Tri Kids - slideshows

karaka Whanau Sports

On Friday we had a tabloid sports afternoon. Karaka whanau sports were organised by our wonderful whanau leaders- Tori, Kanoa, Amelia and Lucy. They were exciting games and fun was had by all.
Tumeke, Karaka whanau!

Karaka Whanau Sports - slideshow

Gala Day

Swimming Champs

Today Emma G, Florry and Angus represented SFX Year 4's at the Whangarei Schools swimming champs. Emma and Angus were part of the Year 4 relay team which came 3rd, Angus also came 3rd in the Year 4 boys breast stroke. Well done guys. Tumeke!!!

Hauora

What has been happening in our whanau so far.....

Our Pepeha

We read a book Child of Aotearoa and talked about how important it is to Maori to know where they come from. They do this through their pepeha where they identify the mountain, river, waka marae tribe whanau from their local area. We have our class pepeha that we want to share with you.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

We are involved in the Keeping Ourselves safe programme with Constable Jasmine. We have been talking about what situations make us feel safe and what can make us feel unsafe, confused or worried. We will be looking at ways we can deal with situations where we feel uncomfortable.

Buddy Reading

On Fridays we have buddy reading with another class from our whanau. Room 20 has buddy reading with Room 19,  a Year 2 class. Room 19 children read one of their home readers to us then we share a picture book we have got out from the library. We are encouraging a tuakana teina relationship with other children in our whanau- older children look after and awhi (help) the younger children.