Term 1 Week 8: Whanaungatanga

 Ngā Mihi kia koutou katoa,

The tauira this week have been busy getting on with our core subjects, Te Reo, pūtaiao and learning about Ngā atua Māori, their responsibilities and which of our New Windsor Ways they show. The tauira have realised they all show different attributes which depend on their actions during the creation story or what their role is. 

We also learn't about how to take good photo's on our ipad and then took pictures of tauira displaying the kawa of care.

          

              

                      

Tauira like doing Just Dance

We always make sure to do pūtaiao which this week was Suck it up learning about how water and minerals are sucked up via the plants roots into the stem for the plant to live but if a soil pest is added this can stop the water and minerals been sucked up. Which has an impact on the health of the plant. Tauria really enjoys these hands on experiments.

                              

                        

 

Term 1 Week 7: Whakamātautau The Week of Testing

Tena koutou katoa!

Akomanga 16 has a very busy week of learning and testing our reading, writing and math's skills. We had a really engaging and exciting pūtaiao lessons where we made tube tornados.

Also we have all been discussing and working on one of our New Windsor Way learner profiles Manawaroa (resilience). We have done this by not giving up when we find our work a challenge and when we do our karakia or kōrero. The students learn't about Tane and he showed resilience when he split his parents Ranginui and Papatuanuku by being fearless, tough and he didn't give up when it got hard.  The tauira are developing mahi tahi (collaboration) in all areas of our school work.

This week we finished off our self portraits, which have developed in great pieces of students self perception. The students also really enjoy doing just dance for fitness time.

In week 9 we have parent student goal setting meetings, so we have been setting goals visually.

Setting Goals

Teina doing a tuhituhi session

Buster reading to the class

Connor and Tui's Self Portraits

Frankie showing Manawaroa by leading our Karakia with Sione

Buster, Connor, Siuta and Levi ready to make a tornado in a tube

Term 1 Week 6: Manawaroa Showing resilience

Kia Ora!

We have had a week of settling back into our classroom routines from using our devices in the correct manner, been curious in science, checking out the new mural at the front of our school, doing Kapa Haka and of course doing our core subjects.

Yes Auckland got the good news of Alert Level 1!  Take a look at our tauira in our akomanga.

Year 3: Siuta Kawa of care in action

Year 0: Connor

Tui and a Tui

Akomanga 16: looking at the new mural

Junior Kapa Haka

Term 1: Week 5 Kia Haumaru te Noho

 Tēna Koutou E te iwi!        

This week has been another Alert level 3 announcement, so we are all learning from home. What a week of online learning and navigating our devices from home.

We have done a few meets with our tau 4-6 and  tau 0-3, which we all loved catching up with each other and staying connected. I think we all did our best to keep focused and to do some of our set tasks at home with help from our whanau.

What was really impressive was students teaching and sharing their knowledge on how to take screen shots, find information on our class site, how to set our backgrounds and how to upload work to our goggle classroom. We also played quiz's online during our google meet, which tauira really enjoyed.