Term 4: Week 6 Hauora

 

Wiki tua ono!

 The tauira have been working each day on basic facts, Pāngarau, Tuhituhi and Pānui but the main focus is our hauora. In room 16 tauira we have been doing our best to stay connected to students who are not yet back at school via meets twice a day. 

We have found that some days are better than others but that is okay as well. If is really nice when new students come back to school and the one thing we can be sure about is that things are always changing! 

In our akomanga and kainga we have been doing our best do activities to look after our whare tapa wha: Here is Hikitia te hā.

Term 4: Week 5: Friendships and back to school!

 

Week 5 has been a hard week for us all! I have to say masks are not the easiest to wear all day as a teacher but i will show manawaroa whanau!

Room 16 has been writing and reading about friendships from how to be a good friend, what makes a good friend and how to problem solve the challenges of friendships.

In pāngarau the tuakana have been learning about identifying patterns and the teina have been learnng about place value. Take a look at our teina padlet to check out and comment on their work.

Tamariki feedback on returning to school

How was your first three days at school:
Tui: It was good to see my friend and to play.
Nevaeh: Awesome to see my friends the teachers and to play games outside with them.
Noah: It was very excited to go back to school to see everyone in my  class and it was very exciting on the first day of school.

Do you miss anyone in your class that has not returned to school?
Tui: Ngapera
Nevaeh: Buster and Taisha
Noah: Manaia, Levi and Remy

Wāhanga 3 Wiki 9: Mahuru Māori

 Kia Ora Tātou, 

If you didn't know that this month is mahuru māori , so the tamariki of akomanga 16 have been working on not only learning different kupu but also sentences and making sure to use them at home! 

Levi's kupu

This is to encourage whanau to use Te Reo in the home and increase the confidence of our tamariki.
We had a great week continuing to learn about ngā atua Māori, increasing our vocabulary in both languages and reviewing our statistics knowledge. 

TuhiTuhi: Levi

Tuhituhi: Remy

     

Fun activity: Tūmatauenga by Remy

I have noticed a real improvement in our students Te Reo reading, pronunciation and confidence, Ka rawe ngā tamariki o te akomanga nei!  

Term 2 Week 7: Manawaroa

 Ngā mihi e te iwi!

Wiki tuawhitu has had some very fun highlights from getting ready for our school wide fale launch and our school disco.

In akomanga 16, we are always doing our best to keep learning in all subject areas.

 

      

Term 1 Week 10: Kei te pehea koe?

 Ngā Mihi koutou katoa!

Another short week for Akomanga 16 but as always we do our best to learn as much as possible in the time we have. This week has been a challenge for us all to get back in class routines as we have had such a long Easter Break.

The Tamariki have been attending swimming lessons each day, which they really enjoyed!

  

During Pūtaiao this week we learnt how to make a simple and short circuit with a battery, wires and play dough and light.

                    

We also looked at how solar energy can power a small car. During writing the year 0-3 students used the small solar cars to encourage them to write. The year 4-6 students have been watching "How Maui meet his mother" to learn how to plan and write a narrative.  I hope to share some of there writing in next weeks blog.

                           

In Pakirehua we have been looking at the word Resilience and how our Atua Māori show this attribute. Today the students created a quick presentation on What resilience means to me? Here is two!

     Noah: Resilience

Term 1 Week 9: Te Aranga

Kia Ora!

Week 9 was a short week due goal setting meetings and Easter Weekend but we did our best to use our time to the best of our ability. Students started swimming lessons this week, discussed why we celebrate Easter, which students all had different reasons for this.  We designed our own Easter egg and practices our weaving skills.

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