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

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.

                         

            

                   

Term 1 Week 4: Mahi Tahi and Manawaroa in Akomanga 16

Tēnā koutou! 

This week we have been really busy in akomanga 16 setting up our books, learning about how to correctly use devices and how to access goggle classroom.

Connor and his new friend 

Remy finishing his koru

 

We have had a few visitors in our room helping us improve how we learn about math's, which our students did really well. During math lessons we are also focusing on mahi tahi and what we wonder about the math's problem.

Tui and Connor doing maths

Remy and Frankie thinking about maths

The students are busy creating an art piece of Ranginui and Papatuanuku after watching and discussing the creation story. Which will help us inquire into whakapapa and the resilience of Tane.

Buster working on the outline for Papatuanuku

Pūtaiao was an exciting lesson for students, which took us two blocks in the morning. We observed the different reactions of water, baking powder and baking soda and then both powders with vinegar. The students used PH paper to investigate the ph scale of each solution.

 

Tui cheking the PH of her solution

Whaea Tini helping the tamariki decide on the PH level of our solutions

Our Te Reo Māori vocabulary is improving and student learnt rock, paper, scissors in Te Reo. Also we started Kapa Haka this week, with a large number of students turning up. The students of akomanga 16 all joined Kapa Haka and this will also helped with improving their pronounciation , Te Reo vocabulary and coordination.

Frankie searching for Te Reo words about Pēpi

  Connor's shared story writing and he is working on his fine motor skills by using a peg and picking up objects.

Tuhituhi 

Noah practicing his letters

Levi and Siuta practicing their letters

Jiera and Sam concentrating on their letters

Siuta's block creation

Levi's pāngarau task

Siuta and Levi mahi tahi in action during pāngarau