Our Schoolkit

We got a Schoolkit set from Warehouse Stationery to complete and send to a class at Balmoral school in Auckland. We had to complete 32 postcards with metaphors about ourselves and we put some poetry on that we had written. We also had to complete a poster about our class/school and community.

We got a set of postcards and a poster back from Balmoral school and we got to read about them.

Writing our metaphors on our cards

Writing the metaphors on the cards

Our completed cards

Reading the cards from the classes at Balmoral School

Reading the cards from the classes at Balmoral School

Maths games - Tuakana/Teina

Today the tuakana buddied up with their teina to play 'Poaka', similar to the maths game Bankrupt. We had to keep track of our dice rolls by recording them on our sheets. The tuakana helped the teina to add their scores up. We got to choose the goal, most of us chose first to 50 or first to 100. If we rolled a 1 we lost all our points for that round!

Interchange

Every week on a Tuesday afternoon, Whaea Katie takes a te reo Maori interchange for other classes in the school. This term she is working with the Totara Hub (Yr 7 and 8) and the topic they are learning about is kai. It means the tamariki in Te Hiringa go to other classes for the afternoon and join in with their peers.

Here are some of the tamariki from our class enjoying discovery time in Rata 2.