Lockdown Books

Our writing for the last 2 weeks of the last term, we wrote our own books all about the lockdown. We shared what we found hard, what we enjoyed, what we missed and more. 

We designed, wrote and illustrated them and displayed them on our classroom wall for everyone to read. Now we are taking them how to share with our whānau. 

We also created some 3D houses using only paper and glue. We first planned them and then step by step, put them all together. We were very proud of how well they turned out. 

Our Dream Playgrounds

All Dressed Up!

 This week we stepped it up with our themed dress-up days. Here are our awesome costumes. 

We had a movie character and animal day. 

PJ and onsie day.

And the best one for the week was dress like your Dad day.

Our Clocks

 This week for math we have been learning all about how to tell the time so that we could make it to our Google meets on time. For this, we had to make our own clocks out of things we could find around the house so that we could practice telling the half past and o'clock time. 

Lockdown Themes

Wow! What a week we have had online learning while in lockdown. 

Each day this week we had a different theme. 

On Tuesday we brought our pets online to say hello. 

On Wednesday we had our favourite teddy or toy learn with us for the day. 

On Thursday we had a crazy hat day where we all wore something on our heads. 

And today we all dressed up in yellow to celebrate Daffodil day. 

Stay tuned for more posts about our week of online learning fun! 

Matariki Celebration

 Over the past 2 weeks, we have been learning all about the Matariki star cluster and the Māori traditions that take place during Matariki. 

We chose to celebrate Matariki by coming together with the other two junior classes, learning a Māori local story and creating a beautiful artwork to share with our community. 

We learnt about the legend of Poutini which is a story about how pounamu came to be in the rivers of the West Coast. 

We performed a retelling of the story for our kura and whānau and created a large mural of the story which is being shown in our town Matariki exhibition. 

We were also asked to paint one of the 9 stars to be hung in town. We were given Ururangi, the atua of wind. We all had a go at painting a part of our star and are very proud of it. 

Our final big Matariki activity was learning to weave harakeke baskets. The senior students supported us with this and while it was challenging we were proud of our final baskets. 

Term 2 Reflection

As it is coming to the end of the term we are starting to reflect on our learning and achievements from term 2. 

We created a video each sharing something we are proud of or have worked hard on. 

Here is our video.