The Great karaka Rescue

We had two concept days in Term 2. Our concept was taonga and Karaka whanau decided to create a taonga that we could treasure. We decided to create books about the Karaka tree to explain why it is a taonga. The children worked in mixed classes. The children were responsible for the artwork and the classes wrote a story as a whole class or in small groups. We have had our books published using snapfish an online photobook site. The books are beautiful and will be treasured by all. This is a quicktime showing you the book that was written in Room 20. This is not the proper book! You will have to go to the classrooms to see the published books. Please wait for the pages to turn.

Innovation video

Here is a video from Sciencelearn.org.nz which helps to explain what Innovation is...

Innovation

Our concept for Term 3 is Innovation. We are learning that....

Innovation Immersion Activity

The teachers gathered examples of household items that have been changed, modified, improved and are examples of innovation over time. Can you see how they have been changed to meet the needs of the users and make life easier.


Innovation over time on PhotoPeach

Times Tables App

At parent interviews one of our children shared an ipad app which she found very useful to help her learn her times tables. It is a free app called my times tables.

Kapa Haka

Here is a short video of our school kapa haka group singing at kapa haka practice one day. Tumeke!!!
We can't wait for them to perform for the school again. Quite a few children from Room 20 belong to the school Kapa Haka group.

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