We had an amazing day at Ahipara with Room 11. What a way to end the year!
Thank you so much to the whanau who came along for the day, I hope you enjoyed it as much as the students did.
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| Room 3 investigating the emergency kit |
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| Koroua having his blood pressure checked. |
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| How many can we fit in the buggy? |
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| Jacob had a turn in the driver's seat. |
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| Tailah role-playing as driver of the RIB during a rescue. |
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| Learning how to identify a rip. |
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| Making a rectangle for our beach games. |
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| Look at those huge waves! |
On Friday we used the new KWS pizza oven to cook our pizzas. We each assembled our own pizza from a choice of toppings and they were delicious! We also had ice cream to celebrate the 2nd last week of 2020 at school.
We had a musical week in Room 3 with raps, waiata and piano solos. Here are some videos:
This year Whaea Raewyn is organising a school yearbook. It is a lot of work! Room 3 posed for a class photo to go in the yearbook. It will be a great memento. We had 3 people away, it is hard to get a photo with everybody in it!
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| Year 6 at the back, Year 5 in the middle and Year 4 at the front, |
We planted some seedlings in our class garden this week.
We had a cake stall on Friday and thanks to a generous travel subsidy from Surf Lifesaving NZ we now have enough money for our bus to Ahipara.
We also had a water safety lesson where we learned how to identify a rip and what to do if you need help in the water. We practiced the HELP position (heat escape lessening position) to keep ourselves warm.
We 'read' a fabulous picture book this week called The Whale. There were (almost) no words in the book! We were able to tell the story using the incredible illustrations.
We have been learning to write instructions. On Thursday we did a scavenger hunt looking for bossy words (imperative verbs) in our class library.
We had Tim Tipene and Zak Waipara in our classroom (virtually) this week. They entertained us with stories about writing and illustrating. You can watch replays of the livestreams here:
We had an exciting week performing our whole school Kapa Haka firstly for whānau and then for a Facebook livestream as part of the Cultural Festival.
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| Pūkana! Shaniadawn and Ahzaria-Lee. |
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| Lee-Ayla |
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| Tamati |
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| James |
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| Calaise and Ashleigh |
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| Anahera |
Our School joined the Māori language moment at 12pm on Monday. We sang Toro Mai and did a quick haka to mark the day and hour 48 years ago when a petition was presented to parliament demanding that Te Reo Maori be taught in New Zealand Schools. We are very grateful!
On Friday we got out the Edison robots that Room 3 and Room 11 won from Genesis Energy last year. We had a lot of fun coding them and having sumo wrestling tournaments. On Tuesday we will be teaching our teina in Room 14 how to use the robots.
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| Our experience with Scratch made the coding easy. |
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| Ashleigh and Calaise were two of our experts. |
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| Lots of critical thinking and problem solving! |
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| The boys getting ready for their sumo tournament. |
We had the most fabulous day at Urupukapuka Island on Thursday. We learned about our precious marine environment and how to protect our endemic plants and wildlife. We planted some trees and made traps. On the trip back to Paihia we even saw some Bottlenose dolphins!
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| Koroua was our biosecurity officer, checking the bags to make sure we didn't translocate any pests to the island. |
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| Shaniadawn was in charge of Health and Safety, checking the passenger list. |
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| Tamati showed us how to put on the lifejackets. |
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| Caitlin enjoying the boat ride out to the island. |
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| North, south, east and west. |
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| What a view! |
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| Climbing the fence safely. |
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| Proud karo tree planters. |
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| Group photo. Awesome Room 3. |
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| Lots of collaboration needed to construct our traps. |
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| Anahera driving the boat back to Paihia. |
This week we set out up Omapere Road to do some water quality testing of the Mangamutu Stream. We had fun using all of the equipment - the thermometer, bathyscope, periscope, gravelometer, classification sheet, measuring tapes and stopwatches. We had to carefully record the data we collected.
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| Lee-Ayla trying out the periscope (to test water clarity). |
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| Nesta getting ready with the measuring tape. |
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| Calaise and Ahzaria-Lee checking the water temperature. |
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| Time for a snack! |
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| Measuring the width of the stream. |
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| Manakitanga using the bathyscope to see what is under the water. |
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| Mei putting an orange into the water to test water flow. |
