Term 3 - Week 9 & 10

Te Wiki O Te Maori (Maori Language Week)

This week is Te Wiki O Te Maori (Maori Language Week) which means we are spending a bit more time than usual learning the Maori language. We have been learning how to say our colours, numbers, animals, fruit and other words in Te Reo.

We are also creating some amazing artwork by weaving different coloured pieces of paper. With our new knowledge we chose a new word we have learnt and presented this on our weaving.

Term 3 - Week 7 & 8

Back To School

We are back!!! After another lockdown our school is open again and doesn't it feel good. The week was filled with a lot of fun learning. Scroll down to see what we got up to.

Inquiry

We got off to a great start with our inquiry topic 'The New Zealand General Elections'. We have discussed:

• What it feels like to be the leader of the group
• What it feels like when you are told what to do
• What groups we all belong to
• Who is the leader at home, church, school etc
• What our responsibilities are within the different groups we belong to.

Add photo of the wall

Tuakana-Teina

Tuakana-Teina is the relationship between older (tuakana) and younger (teina) people and looks at both groups helping each other.

It was the start of September which meant it was the start of Spring and to celebrate we made daffodils. We asked Room 9 if they wanted to make daffodils and we would help them. Because we are older we try not to do it for them but help them so they are learning.

We also helped Room 9 by helping them log in, creating a Google Slide and uploading it to Blogger. 

We are really good at helping Room 9 but sometimes we also need help. Room 7 & 8 are part of our hub so they came and help us. They helped us with blogging about our artwork.

Typing Club

Just before lockdown 2.0 we started to use Typing Club. It is a website with a typing programme. We have started to use it to help us become better typist. This is us in action!