GET NZ Writing wings its way to Wellington.

Do you know where Khandallah is in New Zealand? Can you find it on a map?

Here are Maddie and Courtney delivering the Courier bag to the office. It is full of our Sticky Word Poems written on postcards and a huge class poster all about us. This will be picked up by the Courier and sent to Wellington to Khandallah School. We hope they enjoy reading our poetry!

Mandarin Greetings and Paper cutting

Miss Han has been sharing Chinese culture with us as well as teaching us how to say our name in Mandarin and Greetings for different times of the day.

We need to practice before we have our lesson again next week. If you are stuck then ask a friend in our class who can speak Mandarin to help you with your pronunciation.

Te Tahawai Marae

Adam introduces himself using the Korero rakau

Daisy introduces herself and says where she was born.

Making kowhaiwhai patterns with templates.

Even the parent supporters introduced themselves. Ka pai Whanau!

Inside the Wharenui there were lots of stories behind the carvings, tukutuku panels and kowhaiwhai patterns. We all learned something new today. 

Waiata and Te Reo at the Marae

Haere mai, Haere mai!

Today Room 14 visited Te Tahawai Marae at Edgewater College in Pakuranga. We are learning about where the tangata whenua of Pakuranga came from and who lived here before us. We are going to take our new findings back to school and continue our Inquiry into Turangawaewae - A Place to stand - Belonging.

We were represented by Oscar who read his Mihimihi with great pride, and in a clear and confident voice. We all sang our Sunnyhills School waiata Whakarongo a. 

Mrs Trembath was so proud of how we represented our school with great Mana. Thank you to the wonderful whanau who gave up their time to accompany us and support us in our learning.

Maths Talk - revising place value and using equipment to illustrate our thinking.

Here is Jordan talking about how to represent a 3 digit number with place value equipment. We have been counting in tens and hundreds backwards and forwards from different numbers up to 1000.

Get New Zealand Writing Continues...contents of the tin revealed!

What is a sticky word??

We worked by ourselves, then in groups and listed adjectives that described the items in the tin. 

   

 

 

 
 

A word source that is a sort of thesaurus is this book:

We are turning common words like happy/ good/ soft into more exciting and interesting words that make us imagine different things. 

Ask your child - what are you learning at school? 

Why are you learning that?

Where are you going to use that?

The purpose of our poetry writing is to write on the back of our postcards and send them to our buddy class in Wellington. They will send us their poems and we are really interested to see what they send us to read.