Meri Kirihimete

I tenei ra, I haere matou ki ruma waru mo etahi mahi kirihimete.

Room 8 invited us up to their class to do some Christmas activities with them.

We had a great time!

Te Ara Hauora - Our school garden

On Friday last week we went out into our school garden and did some weeding. Some of us did some digging in the garden beds. Aunty Tess helped us to plant some carrots and some radishes. We planted them in a koru shape.

Camp Values

Here is how we thought we showed values while on our Noho Marae at Takahanga Marae in Kaikoura.

Writing about our Noho Marae

The teina wrote about our Noho Marae at  Kaikoura's Takahanga Marae and some of the activities we did while we were there.

Noho Marae

From Monday 31st October until Wednesday 2nd of November we went on  a marae stay to Takahanga Marae in Kaikoura. While there we visited Anzac Park, Point Kean Seal Colony, Mangamaunu Marae and Ohau Stream Walkway. We had an awesome time and were all very tired when we got home.

A visit from Holly Robinson

Today we had a visit from the paralympian Holly Robinson. She is from Hokitika which is 25 minutes drive from us in Greymouth. Holly's cousins go to our school. She talked about her goals and successes and the hard work it has taken to be an athlete. Holly showed us her silver medal and Pippa from our class got to wear it and hold the mascot.

Kapa haka Festival

On Thursday 22nd September, our kapa haka group performed at the local Kapa haka Festival. We were competing in the intermediate section. We got first equal for our waiata tira (choral item - Hareruia) and some second and third placings. We also got a manaakitanga award.

Check out the video below to see our performance.

Te Ora and Joseph with our awards.

Our rōpū.

Dedication of our performance to Jordyn

Our bracket

What Now visit...Springfield vs. Grey Main

Here is our class/kapa haka group and Springfield school seeing who could be the loudest.

Who do you think won?

What Now visit

Today our class and the rest of the Kapa haka group went to the train station to meet Springfield School and the presenters of What Now! They came over from Christchurch on the Trans Alpine train.

We were all really excited! We performed a haka and a waiata for them. They are going to show the footage on What Now this Sunday 28th August - keep an eye out for us!

Book Character day

Today is Book Character day. We always end our Book week with it.
We had to dress up as our favourite book character.
The teachers all dressed up as characters from Harry Potter.
Here are our outfits

Buddy reading

This week is Book week at school and today's activity is to Buddy read with our buddy class. We are buddied up with Room 5. They are the new entrant class. We went through to them and listened to them read and we read to them.

Taumāhekeheke o te Ao - Olympics

On Friday we had our school Olympics day. We were in teams and represented different countries. Halfway through the day it started raining so we had to stop. Hopefully we will get to complete our activities another day.

Kapa haka practice

Today we had some of the high school students come and tautoko (support) us at Kapa haka practice. We are practicing for our local Kapa haka competition that is being held at the end of the term.

Our Wharenui

Here is our class wharenui. We created it using display boards. We put kowhaiwhai patterns down the maihi boards and included a tekoteko. We decorated the inside with the tamariki a Tane and the tamariki a Tangaroa.

We created our own tikanga for our wharenui too, it helps us to know what we can and can't do if we are in the wharenui.

The wharenui is a quiet working space in our room.

Meet Te Hiringa

Kia ora koutou, here is a slideshow about us...hope you enjoy reading our profiles!

Take the cake

Two of our teina were Take the Cake recipients this week at assembly. Kobe and Navarah were nominated by Lily, who is new to our school, for helping her settle into our classroom. Tino pai Kobe and Navarah!

Ngā Manawa

I tenei ahiahi, I haere mātou ki te whare pukapuka hou, arā Ngā Manawa. Tino pai rawa atu tenei wāhi!

Our trip to our new library space today was awesome! It's called Ngā Manawa, which means the heart because it is at the heart of our school and it is going to be a great place to learn!

Ngā Korero Okawa

Nau mai, haere mai ki te wahanga tuatoru.

We have lots of exciting mahi to do this wahanga, Speeches, the Taumāhekeheke o te Ao (Olympics games) and the local Kapa haka festival.

At the moment we are busy preparing our Korero Okawa, our speeches. Our ideas for our speeches include Dunedin, Kung-fu, Fiji, NBA and Pokémon Go.

Kahoot!

Having a go at Kahoot!

We were all hooked! Whaea Katie created some quizzes in te reo Maori for us. We did E hia? - How many?, He aha te tae? - What is the colour? and Ko wai? - Who?

Glued to the screen. We loved seeing who could get the most points.

Reading the questions and answers. 

Our Coding Animations

Here are some of our animations we have created with Code.org. We thought it was going to be easy but were surprised when we had to start at the first module for 4-6yr olds!

Rivir's animation

Joseph's animation

Anaru's animation

Cassidy's animation

Matiu's animation

This is just the beginning...we look forward to sharing more with you!

Coding

Today we were introduced to coding. Many of us had no idea what coding was or how to do it.

Whaea Katie is hoping we can create some games or animations that people can use to learn te reo Maori.

Lakin working hard to find the bugs in the coding.

Concentrating hard....

E hia ngā rare?

Pangarau today was sweet as!

The tuakana had to find out 'E hia ngā momo rare?' - How many types of lollies in a pascal lolly scramble packet?

The teina had to find out 'E hia ngā rare?' - How many lollies in a small smarties box?

Anei ētahi pikitia mo te mahi...

Kapa haka Performance at the Family Fiesta

On Friday 16th of March, the Kapa haka group had their first performance as a group for the year at the school's Family Fiesta evening.

Here are a couple of our waiata.

Māwhera E

Amine

Thanks for watching!

Eels - Tuna

Here are some of the teina colouring their 'E' activity - Eels!

We watched a video of eels being fed too. We thought they were big and slimey!

World Record Challenge

I te Rāmere te 26 o Hui Tānguru,  I haere tö mātou kura ki Rugby Park mö te World Record Challenge of the longest continuous High 5.

Pānui tētahi ki tētahi

Here we are practising reading to someone.

We have to sit next to the other person (elbow, elbow, knee to knee).

We have to use a whispering voice so we can all concentrate.

We have to stay in one spot so we choose enough books for the time we have to read.

We have to read for the whole time.