School Trip

 We made it to the Auckland Zoo today. And what amazing pieces of writing after. So proud!

Thursday we went to the zoo and saw lots of animals. I saw a baby baboon. We saw a lion moving to eat and the other lions were sleeping under the tree. Mr John took a picture of us. - Penamusu

Arriving at Auckland Zoo everyone waited for the other bus to arrive at the zoo. When the bus finally arrived we all sat down and listened to the rules, from the zookeeper. We all got into our groups and grabbed our lunch. Then our group sat down and ate our rolls. After finishing our rolls we ran to see the animals. First animals we saw were the emu, zebras and giraffes. They were so tall. Next, we ran off to see the scary lions sleeping. The last animal we saw was the big fat elephants. - Tyrese

Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! 

"We are going to do this all day. If you can't stop your chitter-chatter!" Mrs Kereopa shouted, "Heads, shoulders, knees, toes!" She kept shouting.

Finally, we stopped talking and shut our mouths. It was only Kereru we were waiting to come, so were can start our day off at the zoo. Just then Ms Castle came in and shouted loudly, "Is everybody ready for the zoo?"

"Yes!" everybody shouted yelled.

Then we all got up and into our groups. I was in group one, and group one was the last one to explore the ginormous zoo. At last, our group was off and we were very excited looking forward to seeing all the animals in the zoo. - Loto'a

"Put your hat and shoes on," Mrs Mundy said.

We put our hat and shoes on, all except Dakora. Miss did the roll call, and gave someone from each group the name tags, to give to us, so people know who we are. We went outside and got some instructions. I was in group 2, we walked down the driveway to our bus and got on. 

"Shanell, come sit by me." Te Hanni said.

"Ok," I said back. 

We talked and talked until, Ms Kereopa said, "We need some kids to go with Ms Castle.""Ok," Matua Samuel said, "You can go you can your whole group can go!" - Shanell

Worm Farm

 

We gathered a lot of fertilizer for the new gardens in front of the school hall. It seemed like a hundred bucket loads, but really it was only 15 so far.

Can you find our exaggerations?

Making Paper

 After reading Junior Journal 44 this week we are following the instructions to make our own. We spent hours ripping paper and our fingers were ready to drop off. (can you tell we have been learning about exaggerating too.)

Every Drop Counts Investigation

We have been visiting Hayes Stream, a 10-minute walk from our school, to see how healthy the stream is. We have done a range of experiments including measuring the temperature, the depth across the stream, the flow of the stream. 

 

Each time we have been down we have collected a black sack of rubbish, which is rather disappointing.

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.

Covid Investigation

Covid Level 2 we have over half of Tui students back at school. It has been great to see so many faces and catch-up with everyone and how each whanau survived lockdown.

We discussed many questions to help students feel safe returning to school and help them feel informed about what happened. 

What is Covid-19?

Students created a poem and acted like a lung breathing in and out.

How does Covid-19 spread?

The Students wanted to act it out: They were pretending to cough, sneeze and spit onto the ground or our hands and forgetting to clean our hands then touching someone else. (Please remember we were acting we did wash our hands thoroughly when we were finished before we actually touched someone.)

 

What does eliminating Covid-19 mean?

We had created a skit: One person cleaning away the germs (in art shirts once clean they were removed) and they became cleaners, helping to sanitize and clean the area.

Getting rid of or Remove the Germs / Virus

List the signs and symptoms of Covid-19.

We found out that not all of these were true symptoms of Covid-19.

What did you do during the Lockdown?

We found out that we did a range of activities during lockdown that included...

UNO, Hide n seek, GTA - Car driving game on the PS4, Sonic Force - PS4, Colouring, Drawing, Watching TV, Races, Monopoly, Cludeo, I spy and Pandemic a Board Game - Protecting the world from viruses, you can be a medic, doctor, scientist...

Life Cycle of a Bird - More

We also look at other ways we can present the life cycle.

A drawing using shapes... 

 

Or an animation using google photos...

Life Cycle of a Bird

We are creating a life cycle of a bird, first we discussed that it goes round, like life it is never ending. We end listen to the song from Lion King - Circle of Life.

After drawing the different stages we used playdough to create the stages.

 

Here is students working on their in class.

Waka Journey - Writing Poems

Here are a few of our Acostic Waka Poems

Waka Journey - Dance and Drama

We have been learning how people travelled over the oceans to get to new land often to start their lives over from scratch. There were many hardships they faced.

 We have created a small dance and drama to show the journey they faced to the music of Misey Rika's Tangaroa Whakamautai

Maori Language Week - Part 5

We had to recreate a Maui Myth using google slides to make an animation. I had a lot of fun doing it, I just had to remember to duplicate the slide then move the characters and the sun before adding speech.

Tongan Language Week

We are learning about healthy eating so our teacher thought we should find the names of healthy foods in Tongan. Some of them were easy as they were like Maori, others were really tricky.

What Inspires You? - Music

We have used a couple of different resources to help learn these notes. We even learnt rhymes from the olden days used for skipping. Which the children then tried out - Tinker, Tailor...

We fingered the notes with the recorder on our chin a couple of times before we tried to play it. It was tricky trying ot read the notes, it really is another language.

Information Report - Joe the Carver

We are learning how to write an information report, like a lot of our writing it needs a title. 

 

Photo from Art by the Sea, Joe Kemp.

Food For Thought - Day 2

Today we looked at the Ingredients  and the Nutrition information on a packet.
Less ingredients is healthier, the more in the packet the more processed it is.
Top three ingredients have the highest content in the packet. E.g. Raro sugar is the first so a packet of Raro is mostly sugar.

Look for average per 100g
A serving size can vary, so not not always the best option to compare.


Fruit is healthy because of the fibre, when you squeeze it you lose the fibre, so less healthy because still has sugar and no fibre that helps our body to process the sugar.

5 teaspoons of sugar is all the sugar we should have, this affects our teeth.

Some drinks have caffeine, as it makes our heart pumps and keeps us awake. Caffeine also stops the calcium's work to strengthen our bones and protect our teeth enamel.

What Inspires You? - Marbled Milk

As part of the Kitchen Chemistry we did more experiments - This one was called Marbled Milk the students were fascinated how the colours didn't mix together like they would in a milkshake.

What Inspires You? - Percussion Instruments

Today we take a look at how Music can Inspire us 
and Food can gross us out!

What Inspires You? - Ice cream

We are looking at how we can use science to make food.

Next week we change over and try the other, I wonder what the probability of having ice all over the floor again is? Or the chance Mrs Mundy will be able to try some this time?

Coding - Through Writing

We had a great day creating a code to write secret messages.

After reading Stefania's Dancing Slippers the children had to leave a secret message for her Dad who had left for war.

After deciding which number to start the alphabet e.g.

A   B   C  D  E   F   G  H  I   J   K   L  M  N  O  P  Q  R...
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1

or A=5 of A=26 (children were working in pairs who had the same code)

We wrote a message then change it into code (this is called encrypting).


It was tricky after we had worked out our message to write the number code making sure the numbers were readable and had space. - Marlie

Working out the secret message was hard to start with especially when number could be 1 and 9 or 19. - Dan

Once I knew half of the message the rest was easier to work out. Demitrious

Coding - Through Math