Reading with our buddy class Kowhai

It makes me feel good, they ask me questions and I can answer those questions. - Indica

You get to know each other better. - Liam

It is sometimes annoying but when my teina listens it is really good.  - Amiria

I feel proud that I can teach my teina. -  Eelia

 It feels really fun to read with my teina and it makes me want to be a teacher.  - Alice

Olympics medals in te reo - by Leah

 On Tuesday, our class had Whaea Kaiya after morning tea.

When she came in she started talking about the Olympics. When she finished she pulled out some home made medals. 

Gold in maori is tohutoa koura, silver is tohutoa hiriwa and bronzes is tohutoa parahi. 

The kids that won!!!

How we won these is we had play a game. The game that we play is we had to shoot a ball into the netball net and try to get as many goals as we could.

Buddy reading with Kowhai

 Questions for my teina  ______________________

1.  How old are you?

2.  What is your favourite colour?

3. What is your favourite dessert?

4. What is your favourite thing to do at school?

5. What is your favourite book?

6. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Ripper Rugby

 Half of our class went to Ripper Rugby at the Kaitaia fields.

It was incredible because I had never played rippa before - Levi

I can run real fast when someone is chasing me - Azna

Painting the boat for production

 On Wednesday we painted the boat for production.

The fisherman in the boat are 

I liked trying to paint it to make it look like wood- Amiria

It was sort of hard, because you had to only paint a little and leave it to dry. - Indica 

It was fun doing the nails - Liam

Padlet about the book Cuz.

 

Papatuanuku reading group

 Today our reading group read a story called "Das Piano" by Bernard Beckett.  

We had to read carefully stopping at the full stops and pausing at the commas.  

"we did this so that we slow down when we read" Cooper Nichols

"We need to make sure the story makes sense by using the punctuation"  Connor

After we read the story we had to create a padlet about it.  Here is Leah's padlet.

Author vist

 Today Liz Van der Laarse the author of 'Cuz' came to visit our class.

We asked her these questions and we also showed her our art work from her book.

Indica - Did you get inspired by anything or did you think of the story on your own? 

Levi Griffin - Did you make up the characters names or are they real people?

Liam - Is it going to be a movie?

Cooper Nichols - Can you make another sequel?

Indy - Who is the artist who illustrated the book cover?

Why did You call it cuz? Sam

Why did you chose to write ‘Cuz’? Cooper. W

How long did it take to write? Levi Gruebner

How old were you when you Started writing? Bella

 

rotational symmetry for maths

 WAL what rotational symmetry is.

We created colourful shapes that were rotated 4 times.

A shape has rotational symmetry when it can be rotated and it still looks the same. The order of rotational symmetry of a shape is the number of times it can be rotated around a full circle and still look the same.

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Web resulWhat does rotational symmetry mean?

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Hungry Hens

 Today we read the activity of how to make a hungry hen.  (well it was actually a rooster because it has a comb).

We made a hungry hen out of plates, feathers, coloured paper, a stapler, glue and felts.  

Liam said it was fun to make the hen.  Eli said it was excellent, Luke wanted to know how to cut out the comb, it was really hard.  Bayden thought it was great.

Wetlands workout with Nikau

 On Friday Totara and Niaku class went down to the wetlands, after we crossed the dangerous road we walked through the gates and we found leaves and the older kids wiped peanut butter onto the leaves. 

After that Mr Pickard put us into groups with Nikau class.  Next we walked in our groups to find the traps.  We peeked into the traps but unfortunately there was nothing to be found.   Cory's group found a dead rat next to their trap.    We baited the traps with the peanut butter that was on the leaves.  Hopefully they catch some pests for next time.

Later we walked to the adventure tree, and Nikau told us of their plans for their project the want in the wetlands.  The next job was to pick up all the branches and drag them into a big bonfire pile.  We are hoping to burn this pile of tree rubbish with Nikau class.

Our novel 'CUZ'

 In Totara class we have been reading this Novel called Cuz - by Liz Van der laarse.   The Author is the mother of whaea Meg (a teacher at our school).

This book is about two cousins that get lost in the New Zealand bush.  

This book is exciting, we really like it because it is a big adventure.  - Totara class feedback

Questions we want to ask the Author:

Indica - Did you get inspired by anything or did you think of the story on your own? 

Levi Griffin - Did you make up the characters names or are they real people?

Liam - Is it going to be a movie?

Cooper Nichols - Can you make another sequel?

Indy - Who is the artist who illustrated the book cover?

Why did You call it cuz. ? Sam

Why did you chose to write ‘Cuz’? Cooper. W 

How long did it take to write? 

How old were you when you Started writing? Bella

 

Our trip to Puketi forest

 Yesterday our class went to Puketi forest 

Navy visits our school

 

First days of Totara class 2021

On the first day of 2021,      "it was just like a fun day to get everything sorted.  Then the teacher gave us a challenge to work together" - Cooper Nichols

"First we had to make a newspaper line as long as the classroom by using sellotape, staples or glue stick." -Bella

"The next day we had to stick the ends together to make a circle, then the class went to the hall" - Amiria.

"Then we had to hop in the middle of the tyres/tracks and we to walk carefully inside so they wouldn't break."  - Xavier 

The challenge was easy and tricky.