Book week!

Last week was Book week at our kura. Mrs Costello and her team came up with some awesome activities to do throughout the week.

There were things like guessing how many bookworms were in the jar, bookmark making, a guess who and logo quiz and to finish the week off we had our book character assembly on Friday morning.

Our outfits for Bok Character assembly - Can you guess our characters/books?

PJ with his awesome 'I Spy' book oufit!

Writing without writing!!

Today we visited our whare pukapuka (Library) to do our writing lesson. It was a different writing lesson than usual as we didn't have to write a thing!

We created something called Book Spine Poetry. We chose about 4 or 5 picture books and used their titles to make a poem. It was so easy and a lot of fun. Some of us made 4 or 5 Book Spine poems.

Once we had created them our teacher took a photo of the poem/stack of and emailed it to us.

Searching for books

Royal's Book Spine poem

Joseph and Tearu's Book Spine Poem

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.

Life Education

We have been lucky enough to visit Harold the Giraffe in the Life Education truck this week.

The tuakana have learnt about making decisions and choices and about peer pressure and how people can use tricks to get us to do what they want. We learnt that peer pressure can be good as well as bad and that all our actions have consequences some positive, some negative.

Te Hiringa 2017

Kia ora koutou,

Here is a slideshow introducing our class for the year. The tuakana not only have introduced themselves but also their teina that they have been buddied up with. Our teina are Yr 1-4 tamariki and don't have digital devices.

We are looking forward to an awesome year with heaps of great learning opportunities!