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.

Our Shopping day

On Tuesday Takahe team went for a walk to the Market. Walking to the market was fun. We all collected the money we brought and  did some shopping. We saw lots of people there. The smell of donuts made us feel hungry. We could hear sizzling sausages and roast beef being sold there. but we decided we will buy healthy fruits to make fruit kebabs.There were lots of fruits and vegetables for us to choose from. We went in little groups to do our shopping. It was exciting paying money for the fruits we bought. We all had a turn playing on the playground. After buying different fruits we walked back to school. At school, we made fruit kebabs. It was fun helping with peeling the fruits and putting fruit pieces on skewers. YUM! YUM! we all got to eat our kebabs. 

Thanks to all parent helpers who came along.

Can you see the pattern I made using fruits?