Live Dancing!

Now you have seen our art we can share how we made it!

Choosing tiny beads to thread onto craft wire to make the central part of our hibiscus flowers - this required a lot of fine motor control and perseverance!

Twisting pipe cleaners and bending them through the clear plastic dragonfly wings took a bit of fiddling around and at times a buddy to hold the pieces still. 

After the dye was dry we had to lay out all the pieces and think about how to layer the composition together - no one art work was the same as anyone else's design. Split pins and glue guns held it all together.

Thank you to all the wonderful families who were so generous today for Jammies in June!

Turangawaewae - where do we belong and how do we find out?

We have begun researching our own family's culture and where we have come from. We are interviewing our grandparents and uncles and aunts and family in other countries to see what we can find out about what it was like growing up. When we have a lot of information - together we will share and compare our findings.

Students reflect on our Turangawaewae Inquiry so far and talk about what they will do with their learning now.

Harry, Daniel and Stefanie talk about their ideas as we look back on our learning this term and how we might use our new ideas next. We realised there are ideas we may not know about our own culture, as well as other people's.

Reflecting on the Inquiry into Turangawaewae - what does it mean to us now? Student Voices

Jayrett and Courtney say what learning about each other and our cultures has taught us to do so far. What will we do with our learning?

Mandarin using 'magic' ink paper and water to write our characters!

We just didn't want to stop - how did learning a new language become so fun and interactive?!!

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.

Team work today!

What do you think we were learning today? We had lots of fun learning a new game. It involved planning ahead and directionality. There was plenty of cheering and support from the teams to be heard!

Haere Mai Welcome to Te Reo in the Kakariki Room

The body - Te Tinana
We had lots of fun learning some new words with Mrs Harding.  If you like singing and listening to music here is a link to some songs to play at home!

Maori Songs to help us practice our Te Reo

Te Reo with Mrs Harding

Te Reo is with Mrs Harding in the Kakariki Room

Today we all practiced our colours and vowels sounds.

We really enjoy the  A Haka Mana song which helps us say the vowel sounds correctly.

Then we practised introducing ourselves

Ko wai koe? Who are you?

Ko _______ ahau.
I am ________.

Room 14 - learning for life! Turangawaewae - a place to stand - belonging.

In Room 14 we have made a Class Treaty and signed it. We did this after discussing Waitangi Day and what that meant to New Zealand history. 

We decided:

We will try our best to respect others

Share with others

Care for others

Encourage others

We all signed the Treaty. 

At home Whanau might like to discuss some of these words: respect, share, care and encourage and what that might look like in your family.

Our GEMS cover all of these aspects of our Treaty with Growth Empathy Mana Self Belief. This Term R14 are looking at the GEM - Mana in particular,