Working with Whaea Pen

 Working with Whaea Pen - Wednesday 15 May

Today we sang a waiata together and really enjoyed it.  We focused on saying our name, our friend and where we came from in Maori.  Then we looked at how to say words about feelings in Maori.  We played a matching game together and had lots of fun doing that.

Whaea Pen gave us a sheet to work on about feelings and the students are very keen to do that.

They are really enjoying Whaea Pen's visits each week.

Assembly Item

 Assembly Item

Today the children in Room 4 shared their sea life art at our Junior assembly.  Berlinda and Rana introduced the item and Rana, Branson, Claudia and Ethan shared their writing about how we can save the sea.

Enjoy looking at the photos:

Working with Whaea Pen

 Working with Whaea Pen - Wednesday 8 May

We talked about how to say," Line up here" and "Line up over there" in Maori.  

We learned the Maori alphabet.

We did a waiata, AEIOU.

Here is a video of the children singing AEIOU.

We learned how to say, "Who is your friend?" and This is and our friends name.

We used sentences in Maori about us and our friend.

We learned about the names of our whanau.

We played a game, we matched whanau cards in Maori.

Working with Mrs Hilder

 Working with Mrs Hilder - Tuesday 7 May

Today the students worked with Mrs Hilder.  She discussed mini-beasts and the students went on a hunt in the hive to see if they could find some.   They made a wormery or a mini worm farm so they can observe the worms behaviours for a short time and then we will take them to the hive and find a great place for them to live.

This is what the students found out:

*Mini-beasts are invertebrates, they don't have a backbone.

*Mini-beasts help plants to grow.

*Butterflies pollinate the plants.

*Bees make honey.

*Plants that are carnivorous eat mini-beasts.

*Mini-beasts live in rivers, gardens, ponds, rainforests, swamps, forests, the underground and deserts. 

This is from Mrs Hilder:

We had such fun learning about mini-beasts together! 

In the first block we EXPLORED and learnt about the different mini-beasts we have in New Zealand. We learnt what they look like, what they eat and where they live. We then went on a scavenger hunt in the hive to see which mini-beasts we could find and where they were living or 'hiding'.

In the middle block we had HANDS ON experiences.

We then got our own worms... we watched them, touched them and looked if we could find the different parts of the body. We loved learning about these wiggly creatures. We played a mini-beasts and predator game outside with our buddies, we had to act like our favourite mini-beast and escape from the predator that would eat us.. like birds.

In the last block we REFLECTED on our learning for the day. We drew our favourite mini-beast after looking at the structure of the different mini-beasts, we also had to include a background to show where they live.

Enjoy looking at the photos: