Student Spotlight - Logan

Last week for writing we got to write about anything we wanted. I wished that I had a PlayStation 4 so that I could play games with my brother. I enjoyed this writing because I got to write about what I like.

Next time I do writing I want to write about what I do with my family after school.

Here is my writing.

More Exciting Achievements

Last week we had our school assembly where we recognised some of our wonderful learners in weka and shared our Matariki art with the school. 

Here is the video of our sharing. 

Well done Sophie and Essie for completing all of thier sight word levels in the last couple of weeks. 

Caden was awarded for showing Rangatiratanga in his reading, Logan - for showing Manaakitanga by having is bag organised, and Sophie was the Star of the Week for her awesome editing skills in writing. 

Ka mau te pai - Greet work everyone! 

Student Spotlight - Tara

Matariki art

This week in Ruma Weka we did matariki art.
First, we painted the stars onto the black paper for the background. Then we ripped the paper to create the mountains. Then we used the soft pastels to colour the tops of the mountains. Then we rubbed the pastel up on to the black paper to make the southern lights. We printed out the Matariki stars and glue them on in the right formation onto the black paper.

It was really fun! The hardest part was ripping the paper to make the mountains. The most fun part was rubbing the pastels up.

They are going to look really cool on the wall!

This is my finished artwork!

Written by Tara.

Measurement

For maths this term we have been learning about measurement. 

We started by putting ourselves in order of shortest to tallest. 

Next, we looked at how we can measure the length of a room with our bodies. 

Then we looked at how we could use different parts of our bodies to measure all sorts of things. 

 

Achievements

We have celebrated lots of great achievements in Ruma Weka in the last two weeks. 

Some of these were the first group of tamariki to complete all of their sight word lists.

Coming in the top three at our school cross country. 

And receiving a certificate for showing Rangatiratanga in class. 

Cross County!

Today we had cross country. It was wet and muddy but so we had to do it at school but we had so much fun! We had to run around the bike track, across the field and through the muddy fort. We loved it so much that we made some animations about it. 

Student Spotlight - Finnian

My Holiday - By Finnian

At  the weekend my family went tramping to a hut.  We slept at the hut and the next day we walked back to the car.  We saw a robin on the way back and on the way there is a  small bird I liked it.  I carried a backpack with my clothes in it.  When we got back we kept on driving to Hammer.   When we got there we had electric blankets on our beds they were warm.  Mum and Dad had electric blankets too. We went to the hot pools and I was tall enough to go on the hydroslides and I went on the new one and the Super Bowl.  My favourite one was the green hydroslide because it had lights which were shaped like arrows inside.  It was a great holiday.