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

Week 4: We are going back to school!

Today i got some of the tamariki to create a google draw to show How they are feeling about going to back school. 

Term 4: Week 3 Diwali and Whai koha (Responsible)

 

Kia Ora E te Whanau! 

The Tamariki of Akomanga 16 made sure to learn and celebrate in their own ways to respect Diwali  - festival of lights. I know we all learnt something new about Diwali. 

    

                                           This story was used to inspire students writing 

Term 4: Week 1 & 2 Whanaungatanga - Reconnecting

 Kia Ora Koutou!

Welcome back to distance learning for term 4! The plan is to take it slow and get back into the routine of school work. I understand that learning at home is not easy for use all, so try and make time to school work, whanau, and getting outside for some fresh air.

The value you will be focusing on this term is Responsible - Kawe Haepapa and how Responsibility may affect change in the environment or in our community. Also we will focus on our wellbeing using Te Whare Tapa Whā.

 

Week 1 We celebrated Nuiean and Cook Island Language week together and some of our akonga produced some great art and cook island donuts.

Levi's Pasifka Patterns

Levi's Pāngarau: Tivaevae patterns

 

Remy's Hauora: Whare Tapa Whā

Remy's Pāngarau: Tivaevae Patterns

Click here to check out Manaia's Cook Island Donuts        

Week 2 a lot of our work focused on Kaitiakitanga and our responsibly to our environment. We also did a writing task on Halloween. The akonga produced creative pieces of work focusing on the weeks focus.

Levi: Responsibility

Remy: Halloween

Remy Kaitiakitanga 

Siuta Halloween

Wāhanga Tua Toru Wiki Tekau: We have made it whanau!

Kia ora koutou, yes we made it, stayed connected, had some fun and learnt some new knowledge along the way. I am really proud of our tamariki who engaged in meets each day as i have seen real promise and growth in their Te Reo. We all did our best to keep connected and learning.

We celebrated Chinese Language week in week 10 with daily activities and a challenge for the week. Some of our tamariki submitted awesome pieces of mahi. Our Chinese zodiac winners were for the tuakana: Buster and teina: Remy, they both will get 50 tokens towards their Fale. All other entries will recieve 10 tokens each.
I know this lockdown has been a long one but hope all goes well over our holidays and we are back together in our akomanga learning and playing in our kura. We have a big term ahead, so enjoy your holidays and lets celebrate our learning!

Siuta

Remy

Buster

   

Levi

Manaia

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!  

WĀHANGA TUA TORU WIKI TUA WARU: TE WIKI O TE REO MĀORI

KO TĒNEI TE WIKI O TE REO MĀORI

Māori Language Week has been celebrated each year from 1975. September 14 and commemorates the presentation of the 1972 Māori language petition to parliament.

Kia kaha te reo Māori 

‘Kia kaha’ is well understood in New Zealand English with its meaning of ‘be strong’. We often talk about languages as if they are people – talking about language health, strength and revitalisation. So when we say ‘Kia kaha te reo Māori’ we’re saying  - ‘Let’s make the Māori language strong'.

E aro ana te akomanga 16 ki tēnei kaupapa o Te Reo Māori, ahakoa he iti, he pounamu mō ngā tamariki nā te mea ko rātou ngā rangātira mō āpopo. Anei ngā mahi pāpai rawa mai te ako, te kōrero, te pānui me te whakarongo. Tītiro ki te paetukutuku hei ārahi i ō tātou mahi mō te wiki nei New Windsor Language Celebrations .

Rāhina: Ako Wero: Karakia mō te kai

Rātu: Kōrero Wero: Pepeha

Rāpare: Pānui Wero: Pānui Pukapuka

Rāpare: Whakarongo Wero: Whakarongo me te kanikani

Tītiro ki tēnei padlet hei āta tītiro ki ngā mahi o tātou teina mō ngā wiki katoa.

Term 3 Week 6 & 7: Level 4 Learning Experience

 Kia Haumaru te noho tātou!

I do hope you have all tried to get sometime outdoors and spending time with those in your mirumiru (bubble). We have all been doing our best to keep connected by morning meets as a whanau and also using online games to have some fun.

The akonga have been earning fale tokens for participating in meets, engaging in set daily tasks and showing our New Windsor Way during our online communications.

Our Teina Remy and Levi have been working really hard at home with their parents on the daily tasks. Take a look and make a comment on their work on our padlet. 

             

Also we do Rāpare - Reo, where we do our work in Te Reo only, here is our Tuakana doing pānui on a meet.

Term 3 Week 5: Our old normal: Distance Learning

 

Me mahi tahi tātou mō te oranga ō te kātoa! Be united as one for the greater good of all.

This week we have all done our best to keep a routine in our bubbles with akomanga 16 students being online at 9.00am for karakia each morning. During our online sessions we do karakia, catch up on how we are doing and what mahi we have for the day. If we can we will also play a Kahoot together which most tamariki want to do over anything else.

I have really enjoyed seeing the tamariki connecting online with each other and especially the year 0 - 3 with support of their parents, which they have done an amazing job been online to learn! Whaea Tini knows it's not easy for all of us.

Rāmere our whanau joined us as well and played a  Kahoot based on Te Reo which we learn't for Rāpare - Reo. This is was fun for whanau to connect and as one mum's message said "That Kahoot! Was an awesome way to connect and to show learning Te Reo is fun. I was also told Whanau were getting very competitive!

Whanau Kahoot!

                           

Winners of our Whanau Kahoot were Buster and Dee!

So like always check out some of our photo's, our padlet and remember to leave a comment!