Service September - fantastic everyone who has brought their Passports back so far!

Look at these amazing people who have taken the Service September Challenge. Everyone else in R14 please bring your Passports back tomorrow! 

We have done a lot of different things for our whanau - folding washing, looking after younger siblings, picking up rubbish at the beach, bringing the neighbour's wheelie bin in for them and the list goes on! 

This made us feel proud, responsible, happy. 

This made others feel glad, helped out and proud.

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. 

Why do we read books? What skills do we use to find information? How does reading entertain us?

The Fantails are learning about how to form an open or closed question. They talked about what they thought each type was first and then read their books. Following that they formed questions of their own. Here they are talking to each other about which are closed and which are open and WHY they think this.

Alistair was a great Pirate Chief in a play. How do you think he did with trying to use expression and read at a good pace for the audience?

The Tuataras group performed a play. The whole class has been self assessing and peer assessing their Fluency skills. Here this group perform a play with expression, a clear voice and using a suitable pace for the audience. The rest of the class gave feedback and feedforward. 

These points are useful to talk about at home when you listen to someone reading. We have used this rubric to self assess and peer assess already. Now we know what we are working on.

Playing stuck in the mud with the sprinkler! And water relays!

Our hats were getting wet so we took them off for 5 minutes and let the water rain down! Mrs Cammell got wet too. Thanks to all the Year 3 Team for setting up such a fun afternoon - and Mr Lesley for lending us the hoses.

Tinker time - woohoo - collaborative and creative learning!

Edisons - read a simple code and create a journey. Lots of experimentation here, Mrs Trembath gave no instructions. We had children teach their skills to the next little group.

Patience and creativity here. And on such a hot afternoon a little mindfulness too. 

Beading requires careful planning and patterning.

This group started to add lego pieces to their edisons and add some of their own personality!

House groups - welcome to Olivia and Maia - can you see which house they are in?

Here are our house groups: 

From time to time we do House events for sports and we collect house points for our Houses. We also have Year 6 leaders who are in charge of our Houses. It is always lots of fun doing house activities!
Our Houses are
Hoiho - Yellow
Tui - Blue
Kea - Green
Takahe - Red
All of the teachers and staff are in houses too. We like to dress up in our house colours and can get quite competitive! Mrs Trembath is in Hoiho!

Tui

Kea

Takahe

Hoiho