Yummy Treat

Every couple of weeks the Senior Leaders have decided that Fun Fridays need a treat with them. This week we received cupcakes and each student was able to ice their own. 

No two cupcakes were the same. We even had stars we could add to remind us of Matariki.

Getting Out and About - Highwire

It was a great day the rain was staying away, which was great as we had to walk 10-15 minutes down the road to Highwire. A great facility who we link with whenever possible and time allows. The facilitators down there Chelsea, AJ and others, all organised by Mr Hopkins provided a couple of hours of fun activities developing teamwork and communication. 

Creating Patterns

Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at patterns. We start with Samoan Language week and creating Sasa and Siapo. Then we created Kowhaiwhai patterns. Each pattern we learnt told a story. 

In groups we created repeating patterns for maths can you pick the pattern each group has created?

Getting out and About - Preparing for Every Drop Counts

We took a walk down to Hayes Stream where we are going to investigate the water quality and animal life.

Hot Soup for Lunch

Using the soup packets we received lunch was made the night before in a crockpot and left cooking. Early in the morning, we added Chayotes that were given to us by Whaea Elena.

The best part was it was hot and we could dip our bread into it.

Parachute Fun

First, we would like to thank Our Board Chair for giving us the parachute we had a lot of fun with them.

 

The Parachute

“Yay!” Everyone shouted we got up and rolled the parachute until it was even. When it was all even everyone waited for the teacher to say tahi, rua, toru wha. When the teacher shouted tahi, rua, toru wha everyone threw their arms up, holding the parachute and waved to each other. We did it again and our teacher yelled out tahi, rua, toru wha. Then we all threw it up but this time we left it up and went under the parachute instead. It looked kind of like Patrick’s house but it was smaller and the color was grey. We all got up and our teacher grabbed a bag of bean bags and tossed them onto the parachute. We had to try and keep the bean bags on the side of the parachute there was a kind of big hole in the middle of the parachute and we had to try and not let the bean bags in the middle of the parachute. 

Samoan Language Week

We are learning about numbers, so we thought to add fun to counting in Samoan we would try to create a Sasa or two.

I have included a few of the videos too, so you can see the fun we had.