Term 1: Week 2: Getting to know our classroom routines and expectations

 Kia Ora E te whanau,

This week we have slowly been looking at what our class routines will be like in the coming weeks in akomanga 16. We always start our day with karakia, kōrero and eventually waiata, with our tuakana displaying confidence by standing first to kōrero.

We have been engaging in Pāngarau, Tuhituhi, Pānui, Te Reo Māori and Pūtaiao. The akonga found our pūtaiao lesson fun this week exploring forces with our balloon rockets. The akonga have been tested on spelling this week to help us become better spellers, readers and writers.

We are working as tuakana and teina in the akomanga and our tuakana have been doing an amazing job helping out teina in all aspects of our kura.

Week 3 we are hoping to introduce devices into our akomanga, so we will need to learn how to be safe on devices but also to look after them in our akomanga.

Pānui

Reggie our student teacher doing pānui with the akonga

Pāngarau

This is the problem our akonga trying to work out

Noah and Taisha collaborating 

Girone and Jaymie-Lee working with Whaea Trina

Mania and Frankie discussing how they can workout the problem 

Buster and Remy trying to work out the problem many different ways

Nevaeh and Siuta have solved the problem one way

Pūtaiao

Taisha, Noah and Sam getting their rocket ready

Manaia, Frankie and Tui nearly ready ready for lift off

Girone and Jaymie-Lee curious about the round rocket
 

Levi, Julius, Connor and Buster getting ready for lift off with their round rockets

Sione and Remy with their skinny rocket

Recording the flight paths of our balloon rockets 

Lift off time!