Thanks for our Treat

 We are lucky at school, our teachers missed us and wanted to say thanks for coming back with Trumpets

Being Visually Creative

 We are learning to use a range of materials to create a visual image.

It is amazing how different each image is, especially as we all saw the same stream.

Being Creative with Music

 

One positive thing that has happened to our school with Covid19. Matua Samuel returned to New Zealand and is teaching Music to students at Redhill school. Tui is learning to play the Ukulele. So far we know the names of each string and how to play C and A minor.

Our Play Space

 

We are trying to make our own bubbles in the school. Tui is one learning space and a bubble, we walk home in our family bubbles. So to keep us safe we have a play space and our teachers picked the best one, it has room for soccer, trees to climb space to roll down the hills and do cartwheels.

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.

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

Whakaaro Awards - Winding up Maori Language Week

It was great to see what everyone had been learning through the week. Our seniors were very good at the stick game for E papa waiari and their Mihi. Kingston and Haaki presented our slide show and learning very well too. The juniors shared their scratch art and explain how it was coloured, painted twice and then images scratched out.

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.

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?

Mufti For Westpac

Many children wore mufti to help support Westpac Rescue Helicopter, a few attempted to dress following the Aviation Theme. Tui Whanau had a hostess, an astronaut, airforce officer and a few in bomber style jackets.

Northern Drums - Cook Island Language Week

Celebrating Matariki through Learn Create Share