Friday, July 24, 2015

Class Karakia

We say this at the beginning of our day to start off ready for new learning/ako...
And this is our Karakia before morning tea and milk in school...


Thursday, July 23, 2015

Harold's Visit


This week we visited Harold and Liz in the Life Education truck to learn about Air we need to live... children identified important body parts for breathing - windpipe, lungs and the heart.  

We watched Harold visit an aquarium and talked about how fish breathe through their gills then Liz had us sort pictures for the respiration cycle and classify pictures of things that do and don't need air .  

Today we also talked about things that pollute the air - smoke, carbon dioxide and car fumes... the children even thought of the ash and smoke from volcanoes as an air pollutant.  At the end of our session Harold sung us a song, we all thought he was real cool!!

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Snapshots of us













Our stories/pakiwaitara




Here is a sample of our writing in Room 3, enjoy!!! tell us what you think ;)






















"I am going to see the butterfly" by Wikitoria
























"Dad is going on a digger" by Huntah
























"I am playing with the butterfly." by Lily
























"I am a dinosaur" by Tristan.
























"The mountain is on fire" by Te Hoka























"My mountain is Pihanga, she is erupting."  by Wiremu
























"I am going on a fishing trip." by Rougan





















"I was swimming at the hot pools." by Te Rangihiroa




















"Ngatoro is on the mountain." by Cyrus
(This writing was inspired by the retelling of Ngatoroirangi bringing fire to Mount Tongariro...


and the viewing of this you tube of the legend....



























"The mountain has fire from his sisters trying to make him warm."
























"The whale is in another world."  by Knia
























"I am fishing." by Kameron.






















"The whale is moving to Australia."  by Tei-Ngariki