Buddies

BUDDY VISIT

Last week we had our beautiful little 5 year old buddies from Room 16 to visit our room.  We showed them around and read stories to them.

Look at the photos below and  can you comment about what you think we need to do to be a great buddy.  
Can you see anyone in the photos that is doing this well?

Don't forget to add your name to the end of your comment!

Te Reo

  

Te Reo

Last week we practised some Te Reo - how  to  greet people and introduce ourselves.

Here are some of the words and sentences we've looked at.  Practise these and maybe you could teach your family some Te Reo too.

Tēnā koe “Hello to one.”

Tēnā kōrua “Hello to two.”

Tēnā koutou “Hello to three or more.”

Try these other ways of greeting people:

Kia Ora,      Mōrena,  Ata marie,    Ahi ahi marie,

Po marie

We are also learning to answer this question:

 Ko wai tō ingoa?

What is your name?

 Ko ------- taku ingoa

My name is --------- 
See if you can make a comment and answer this question Te Reo on our blog.  Maybe you could ask the question in a different language  so we could learn to this as well.  Don't forget to write your name at the end of your comment!  

Jenny Foster Art

 Jenny Foster Pet ART

Hi everyone,

I've put some examples of Jenny's pet paintings on our blog so you will  really look at how she has done this work.
Watch the video of Jenny talking about her work and post 
your comment about anything important you've learnt 
on this blog.  Show your family.
 Click here to watch:
Jenny Foster Interview

Here is what you said in our discussion last week after looking at this painting

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  What has Jenny done?  Class Discussion

• Used lots of bright colours,
• added cool patterns on the bodies
• given the dogs really long legs 
•  painted some standing and 2 sitting 
• painted collars  
• made the dogs fill all the space 
• painted a background dark 
• sometimes the background is in blocks of colour.
• Dogs look like they are looking at something, 

You discovered lots of helpful hints to help you with your pet painting

Look again at the other examples to check these further.  The pattern idea is very important.

Look at where the patterns are and how they are all different.

AKO

AKO

Last week we signed our treaty where we promised to use AKO in Room 5 this year.

Everyone using

Ako

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S          S

I think we really explained this and  how we are all learners and teachers in Room 5 in our Assembly Item on Friday.  Well done, everyone.

Now we have to prove our understanding of this Maori concept by using it each day.

I have seen lots of people doing this!!!

Could you comment about a time you've seen this happening in our room.    

Make sure you add your NAME at the end of the comment so we know who wrote it!

Tititorea Maori Sticks

 Kia ora Ruma Rima,


Here are the words of E Papa Waiari that we have been learning in our class.  Maybe you  could teach your family


                                 E papa Waiari lyrics

         

Learning the actions

Some of you have been making your own practice tititorea and practising at lunch time.  I am so impressed at how you have found the music on youtube and are trying to learn this all on your own.

Here is a link to some easy actions:

                       E papa Waiari Easy Actions

We will have a go next week in class.

Here is a link to some very advanced children to inspire and challenge you .

Titi Torea

What Makes a great class?

Tena Koutou Room 5,

Welcome to our first Room 5 2017 post.

1. Please read this and add a comment.  Make sure you put your initials or your name at the end or we won't know whose idea it is. 
2. Try and get your parents to read our blog and add a comment too.

I have been wondering 'What makes a great class ' and after a week with you all I think I am beginning to understand this.  

I am so impressed and excited with the way you are all sharing your ideas and thinking so hard to help me find the answer to this wondering.  Ka tino pai!

Here are some of the things we've talked about so far.

The Learning Pit

Look at the photo again .  Explain to your parents what it is about. make a comment about any ideas you have and get them to add a comment about what learning is to our blog.
  

The Video - Soar

Watch the video again and explain to your parents what it all means.

Click on the link below to watch it.

soar

Add a comment about this video

Images from Arataki

EOTC 2016

What a great challenging and fun week we've all had!  Well done to everyone !

Look at these photos of Arataki and enjoy!

Ojas is watching the flame and checking that his team are cooking carefully.

Catherine got to cook hash browns because she couldn't eat the sausages.

  Holly is watching patiently.

                                          This is us cooking sausages so they taste good.

We did relay races on what to bring when you go for a day tramp  in the bush.

Here are us all building stretchers for us if we have an injury in the bush walk.

Sybilla and Aleeza look proud of their team's work.

We all have had a go at building a group tent. Evie and Alfie collaborated well.

                                               This is us in our tent when it was put up.                               Damar and  Jack look proud of their efforts.

                              We had to know all about using everything before we                                            could cook.

Here we are cooking sausages on pans and we used oil to light the camp stove. 

                                         It was so much fun when we cooked the                                                        sausages.

This is one group cooking their sausages. Wow they look so yummy!

This is us eating our sausages.

We  tramped through the bush until we got to Bob's Bush Camp then we saw 12 big weta.

                     

                                                   We had to put up our tents by ourselves!

                   Here we are working together putting up our tents.
                            Hamish looks in control.

 We learnt that a tent has a fly which keeps mosquitoes and

water OUT!!!   

                             First when we put up our tent it started off hard but
              then got easier by the second. Chenelle is reading the                             instructions with Dennis the ranger watching.

How do we put the fly on?

                                         This is hard work!!!

Joban is helping his team.

                                                               Teamwork is so challenging!

I wonder what Evie is thinking?

We all had a very tiring day. So tiring that some of us even slept on the bus on the way back to school!!!

                         After a tiring day at Arataki everyone was very tired and was wanting a sleep, even Berenger.