Tamariki 2020

 What a fantastic bunch of tamariki we have had this year. Always here at school, ready for learning and contributing in discussions. It's been a great year for our whānau.

Mahuika & Māui

 Kia ora kōutou

He tino poho kereru ahau o te rōpu kōtiro i tēnei akomanga. They have created this animation to retell the story of Mahuika and Māui and the quest for fire.

We won the competition

 Wow we are so pleased to announce that we won the blogging competition for the term. Thank you to all of our whānau and friends who spent time looking at our blogs and leaving comments. We were rewarded with a lovely classroom party of yummy snacks.

Blogging Commenting Competition

 Last week we won the senior competition for the most blog comments from whānau and friends. Keep it up whānau we want to win next weeks as well.

Book Creator Tuhituhi

 

https://read.bookcreator.com/EXeadhysPHgcC5STz8SaObWxaME3/9aKDbcVdQNiJRNvm0vkU3Q

This is Kaeden's book showing his 3 favourite pieces of work.

Playing with Jamboard

This morning we have had a go at using Google Jam board as a tool to create. We have played with using the drawing tool and also the sticky notes. Then added in an emoji of our choice.

Kiore traps!

Yesterday we looked at kiore (rat) traps that Māori used! There were 3 different types

1. Rua torea
2. Taupopoki 3. Tāwhiti makamaka Check out their blogs to see what they created! They designed their own one or based their kiore trap off one of these traps.

My Map Google

This was our class first try at creating a my Map.

My Map

Certificates for the week.

Tino pai korua, the decision to award these certificates was a very difficult one this week as so many of the class have been sharing quality blog posts and really working hard.  I am so proud of you all however a special mention must go to Nevaeh ,Amorangi and Yazmin. Miharo!

Certificates for this week

On Friday we had our whole school assembly. The two recipients for the certificates this week were below

Animal toast

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Yesterday at kura we made animal toast! The tamariki all chose to do the same one ... A bear!
They WASHED THEIR HANDS (of course) and cut up bananas and grapes. We used Nutella for the upoko... YUM!

They were delicious - whakawaiwai!

Here are some pikitia :) have a go at making your own animals!

How to embed a video on your blog

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Watch this and hopefully it will make more sense :)

Remember you can pause this video so you can do it slowly along with me.
Let me know if you have any more problems.

Exercise video

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Here is a video Yazmin and I did yesterday at kura for you! I hope you enjoy it.

How to put a video on your blog!

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THANK YOU WHAEA KELSEY

Watch the video to see an easy way to embed a video onto your blog!
Kia kaha, much easier then my previous blog post ..

Putting a video on your blog

Kia ora e te whānau

This is a post to show you (hopefully) how to put up a video without it taking so long!

First save the video to your drive (on the left hand side, upload new file, chose where you have saved it I usually put it on my desktop then upload it from there). Put it in the right subject folder.

Then up the top when you are writing your blog post there should be "Link" in blue

Click on it 

A box pops up 

On another tab open up your video (on your drive) and copy and paste the URL in the box (next to "web address" box) click "Okay" and the link should come up under your writing --- see my link below ...

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1faaY_EQuKyTJYCnoBiUDc8_XzR_2I3mZ


Then people will click on the link and be taken to your video. They may have to then ask for access which will come up on your email and you can allow them.


Hopefully that works! Please email me if you still have some trouble.
Kia pai to rā 

ANZAC Day Sharing

Ata Aio kouotu

What a beautiful start to the day remembering our past and present people that fought in the wars. At 6am we gathered in our bubbles at the end of our driveways as we listened to Radio New Zealand broadcast a live stream of the Last post, the Ode, National Anthems and a short kōrero from Ron Marks. It was really nice and a warm morning too. After that we had pancakes cooked on the BBQ and at 9.30am there was an ANZAC karakia for our class and anyone else that wanted to join in with a sharing of some special ANZAC blog posts and a few waiata. Here is a short movie of our google hangout.

Pancakes on the BBQ for breakfast.

How cute are these?

While walking last week I came across these sheep with their tails still on. They look super cute especially when they run away.

Karakia and Waiata Day #1

Wow so good to see so many people joining our morning karakia today. Just a wee screenshot part way through the hangout....I know that there were more people. Well done, see you tomorrow morning. Ngā mihi Mikaylah for running our karakia and waiaita.

Spot the Easter egg.

Spot the Easter Egg ... All around New Zealand tamariki are colouring in easter egg pictures and putting them up around in their windows.

Because we have a fence up to block our windows Ariā and Mana have done our easter eggs on the fence.

Luckily it's chalk and will wash off....    SPOT THE HEKI  Heki = egg

Lockdown Art

Ngā mihi nui ki a koe e Arabella. He tino pai tō kōutou  mahi toi.

Lockdown art Arabella's whānau

Day #14

Kia ora koutou,

Here is another workout to try ... even get your whole whanau involved!

21 of
squats
burpees
pushups (on knees if you need to)

15 of
squats
burpees
pushups

9 of
squats
burpees
pushups

DONE! :)

Make sure you keep count, be honest, keep time and see who can finish it the fastest while keeping safe (knees out when you are squatting).



If the squirrels can do it you can do it!
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Kei hea ahau? Day #9

Where am I?

Kei hea ahau?

Awesome work from Rūma 8

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Take a look at what our amazing tamariki have been doing while on lockdown.

Na Mikaylah

Nā Mikaylah

Na Taimana

Taukē tamariki mā!

Day #6

Yesterday I spent lots of time chilling at home. The rain didn't stop but we still had fun.
This is what lockdown looks like in our house.

Baby mānuka tree on our walk through Ngā Puna Wai.

Whānau jigsaw time

30 mins screentime!

Whānau walk with Mara the dog.

Whānau game time

Arīa chilling 

The supermarket line.

Day #5

What do you think is happening here? On my walk yesterday I came across all of these camper vans......

AMP Showgrounds 

Day #4 Whānau yoga

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It's been a bit cooler and wetter today so time for our bubble to do some yoga as part of our exercise.

Take a look at Ariā and Mana doing yoga with Matua Hector. Ariā has also been helping with cooking. Send me through some photos of what you have been doing.

Whānau Yoga 

Arīa cooking

Day #4 Thanks for sharing

Love this poster from Arabella, tūmeke e hoa!

Day # 3 What's everyone up to?

How exciting to have some of our classroom teachers, children and even Mr Roberts sending through images of what they have been up to. It only take a few minutes and it keeps us all visible which I love. Imagine the experts we will be by the time we get back.

Whaea Heather         Arabella's kia ora           

So if you are not sure what to do here is a step by step how to make a Screencastify. There is heaps of information here so just go to the parts that you need.

Creating our own board games!

Since we have been enjoying playing board and card games we got a chance to create our own board or card game.
We planned what our game would look like, the rules and how to play. Then we actually made and created our game.
We practised playing our game and showed others how to play it which was so much fun! 

Here are some pictures of our games and us working together to make them. We spoke to each other kindly, listened to others and shared our own ideas.

 

Developing social skills and team work

As a class we are very competitive and often spoil games outside because we can't loose without getting angry with each other. So we decided to brainstorm ways that we could get better at playing together and supporting each other.

We have a board games slot of 45 mins once a week. The aim of this is to practise getting along with each other while playing games. We are getting better. We are even going to have a chess tournament later in the term.

Knuckle bones

Kapai Island

Knuckle Bones

Chess

Jigsaw puzzle