Term 3 Week 3

Kia ora koutou, Ruma Rima,

You have used so much Te Reo, this week in class.  Keep building on to your list of 150 kupu (words).  Special mention to Tom for his amazing list!!!

This week I would love you to read more legends so that we begin to understand more about why these are important to Maori.

Here is the link that Mrs Ngaropo Tuia sent us on blendspace.

                                              Whakatere-Myths and Legends

Don't forget you can work on  your descriptions about Maui at home if you want to.  Just go into your google drive and open the writing folder!

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

Term 3,  Week 2

Tena koutou, tamariki ma.
Haere mai i Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori,

Think about the boy's speech we saw on the NZ Herald website last week.  He challenged New Zealanders to know at least 150 words in te reo by the time they left primary school.  


Here are some of the words or kupu for objects in our akomanga:

Māori vocabulary	English translation
akomanga	classroom
kaiako	teacher
kāpata	cupboard
karaka	clock
kūaha	door
kura	school
kutikuti	scissors
makatiti	stapler
matapihi, wini	window
mea	thing
papamā	whiteboard
papatuhituhi	blackboard
peita	paint
pēke	bag
pene	pen
pene hinu	crayon
pene rākau	pencil
pepa	paper
pikitia	picture
pukapuka	book
raiti	light
rapa, ūkui	rubber
rorohiko	computer
rūri	ruler
tēpu	table
tūru	chair
whāriki	mat

Try learning some of these to use at home this week, and in our classroom.  You might like to teach your whanau/family some te reo too!

Post a comment telling our class if you agree or disagree with what the boy said in his speech.  Make sure you give a reason for your thoughts!

Readathon!! 

Practise pronouncing Maori names of places as you read around New Zealand or Aotearoa.

Welcome to Term 3

Kia ora everyone!

It is great to see how enthusiastic you all are for the start of this term.

I was so impressed with the way you are helping plan out what we need to learn about to get reading for our school show 'Te Whakatere'.

I can also see that we have quite a lot to learn about in our reading, writing, art, social studies and Te Reo areas!!

Here are some of the photos I took of the painting in our hall.  Look carefully at them to see if you can add something more to our learning.  If you can suggest anything extra that we haven't already talked about ADD A COMMENT!

What is the story about?

Our year 4 scene has something to do with waka - canoes.

The Guardian Shark

Rangitoto

Student led Conferences week.

Hi everyone

It is the last week of term.  I hope you've all shown your parents your reports,  Start thinking about the  reading, writing and maths goals you would like to focus on for next term!

Post a comment about your  Term 3 goals on our blog


This week is the first time we've had student led conferences.  
You are to show your parents some of the work you are most proud of  and tell them why you want them to see it and, your next steps with this.

We will talk about this on Monday.

Have a lovely, restful holiday too.  Next term, a lot of our learning will be around our school show topic.  It will be very exciting!

Thanks for working hard this term.  I am proud of all of you!

Miss Cowsill

term 2 Week 10

Book Week

Wow! What a busy week we had last week with so many things happening.  I loved how everyone joined in to everything.

Here are a few photos of the week.

Monday's Book CharacterParade

You all looked great.  I think Edward looks especially like Tintin!

Of course, we ended the week by coming to school in our PJs.  A visitor would have thought it very strange to see a whole bunch of children doing Jump Jam in their onesies!

 Please write a very good sentence to describe your favourite part of  Book Week as a comment for our Blog.  Some of you have never commented yet!

ART

We managed to add some more to our David Bromley Wondering Portraits.  I hope we can get lots more done before the holidays!

Comment on what these people have done well!

A BIG Thank You to Hugo for bringing in his amazing kumara.  It was given to him by Simon and is growing much faster than the one in our classroom!

SPEECHES

 Another Big Thanks to everyone who shared their speeches last week.  It has made it very difficult for me to choose 2 finalists!!

Good luck to those of you who are presenting your speeches again on Monday: Gabi, Rocco, Sofia, Annabel, Arabella and Louie!
Maybe you could add a comment about the speech you most enjoyed listening to and why.

Speech week

SPEECHES

Thank you to the children, Aimee, Remy and Sofia, who started off last week with their speeches. We all could tell that you had put a lot of hard work into these.  I can't wait to hear the rest of your speeches. Good luck!  And don't forget your day.

 Week 9

It is a very busy week next week with: 

1. Book Character parade on Monday 
2. Photos on Tuesday, Grandparents' Day on Wednesday
3. Matariki Disco on Thursday.  

You have a lot to remember !!!

Making  POSITIVE Choices

I am really relying on you to do this next week.  Life Ed was all about how the choices you make influence how others see you. Don't be a person who makes the negative choices.  Let's all take care of each other and try our hardest to make positive choices in this busy week ahead.

Science  Sunset Investigation

Have go at making your own sunset at home.  See if you can explain what and why it happened on a comment to us. 

Term 2 Week 8

Science Expo

Congratulations to anyone who shared their science thoughts and explained what they have been investigating at our Science Expo.  I could hear and see lots of budding scientist in our room.

A special thanks to Jade for being very organised and bringing bubble mixture.  This made the afternoon even more exciting as we could show our families about white light splitting into colours.

Here are some photos;

Observing what happens when bubbles are blown.

Bounding, travelling light.

Scientists record what they have observed and try to explain what has happened.

Can Myiesha show refraction?  Is the arrow changing as she moves it?

 I'm glad our parents are wondering too!

Showing what happens when light hits a prism.

Can we change the colours into white light?

Class Speech Presentations:

These are happening next week.  We will decide together this week on which days you have to do this.  Keep practising!

Book week: 

This is also next week.  Start planning your book character costume for next Monday's parade!

Grandparents' Day:

Don't forget to invite your grandparents to this.  It is on the Wednesday of next week.  Check this out more on our school website.

Extra Science for all of you experts.  Try the Blendspace link.

https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/gMcL-5nZD7HQqQ/light-colour?feature=embed