Junior classes Market Trip

Today we went to the community Market to buy fruits to make fruit salad. We brought a gold coin and went shopping. It was so exciting giving money to the shop keepers and choosing fruits we wanted to buy. We bought a variety of fruits. We can’t wait to make our fruit salad this afternoon. Keep watching, we will post pictures of us making our delicious fruit salad.

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Exciting learning through play

Room 9 had an exciting time during learning through play in our Takahe Team. We play, we create, have fun creating and sharing about what we made.

Term 4 Newsletter

Making Popcorn

As a part of our Language learning experiences - we made pop corn in Room 9. We read the book Pop!Pop!Pop!. We had a lot of fun making it, watching the corn go POP! POP!
We had to wait and watch as the corn popped.
We all had crunchy, yummy, tasty popcorn to eat.

Chicken Licken - Drama for Film Festival 2018

This is the film we made for the Ako Hiko Film Festival this year. Hope you enjoy it.

Having Fun reading dual language texts in Room 9

In Room 9, we have been learning to read book in our home language. Home Language is very precious to all of us and we feel acknowledged when we read books in our own language. We also had a go at reading other language texts we created because we have children from other cultures in our class.

Room 9 trip to the Auckland Zoo

On 31 July we went a trip to the Auckland Zoo to learn about animals and bugs. We were lucky to go for free as we won a free trip to the zoo for learning about bugs and sending our learning to the Zoo. We had an awesome time going to the zoo and learning about bugs at the bug lab and looking at various animals.

Room 9 Art work

We have been looking at Filipe Tohi's art work patterns and using his model for our art work. We used straight lines and shapes. We first had a go at drawing lines and shapes using pencils. Then we chose contrasting colours to colour in the shapes. We were learning about contrasting colours when we did this activity.

Term 3 Newsletter

Matariki in Room 9

We celebrated Matariki on 25 June. We read books about Matariki stories and sang songs. We made kites with Maori patterns. We did weaving and string stars. We read stories about the seven stars and seven sisters. We drew pictures and wrote our Matariki stories.

We made a Maori Cloak

Weaving for Matariki 

Matariki lanterns

Room 9 Trip to the Auckland Airport

This week Room 9 along with Room 8 and Room 10 enjoyed going on a trip to the Auckland Airport. We were super excited to see planes take off and landing. We saw lot of planes flying so close to us we felt like WoW!.It was a great experience. We wrote a lot of stories about our experiences.

 
It was exciting reaching the Auckland Airport.

We saw a lot of planes taking off and landing.

It was very exciting to wait for the planes. I could not wait to see it land. we counted the number of planes we saw. it was more than ten planes we saw. It was busy air traffic.

  
                                                          We saw a special plane model at the airport

Here comes the pilot. A pilot is a person who drives the plane. He wore a special pilot uniform. We all waved at the pilot and the pilot waved back to us.

It sounded like a big roar when the planes were landing and taking off.

Fun run at Wesley

We all had a great time participating in Fun run at Wesley. We did it in teams and it was so much fun. Look at us in action.

Chapter Chat Gruffalo

In Room 9, we have been learning to retell stories using describing words. We  also created a scene setting diorama using playdough and cardboard. We made a Gruffalo and other animals in the story. 

This is a video of us retelling the Gruffalo story. 

Stop Motion Animation with Room 6 

We made a stop motion animation with the help of Room 6 children. They helped us to make these animations about the Gruffalo.

Takahe Newsletter Term 2 2018

Close Encounters with crickets

             

At Wesley, we have a school vegetable garden. We went for a walk to

find out the types of creatures can we find in gardens. We saw ants, caterpillars, butterflies, bees, flies, snails, slugs, weta, spiders and an

interesting hopping creature. We all thought it was a cockroach but then we found out that it was a cricket. We were so fascinated by it as it started to hop, jump and turn around. We all wanted to know more about this insect. So we put a jar close to the cricket. It hopped and jumped into the jar and we closed the jar with a lid with holes so we could watch it carefully and observe what it looks like and learn more about it. We then got our magnifying glasses and observed it carefully what it looks like and it does. We started to feed it with dry leaves and dead spiders. We watched it carefully to see how it eats and moves. Then we put it on the mat and watched it JUMP and HOP. Guess what! it could jump like a frog, very high. We all got a fright and screamed,AW!!
Our teacher said " The cricket is smaller than us. We look like giants to a cricket. I think it is jumping to escape from us." So we all decided to let it go back to the garden.  

Room 9 Multicultural Mosaic

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In Room 9, we coloured cultural patterns to show the country we come from and some Maori patterns of New Zealand- patterns of the place where we stand - Our Turangawaewae  We put our patterns together and made a mosaic to represent the culture backgrounds we have in our class. 

Our Multicultural Mosaic

Our Pepeha

In Room 9, we have been learning about Turangawaewae this term. Turangawaewae is the place for our feet to stand. As a part of our Inquiry, we have been sharing about the place we come from and plotted the countries we come from. We have been learning to say our Pepeha's. We used a pepeha to introduce ourselves to others, show the people in our family, the place we come from and about the place -where we stand now.