Highlights this week

This week I liked……

Doing alien addition in maths, writing, and student council with Greer. That´s what I really liked this week.

By Milla

This week I liked….

Basic facts because I think I am improving every time. Another highlight was ​student council because lots of people are loving jump jam.

By Lucie

My highlights of this week are…..

Doing typing in rotation time,  and doing lots of super cool, amazing, great art.

By Yasmin

This week….

I liked doing the photosynthesis.

I really liked doing Basic facts cause I'm getting really good at them.

I liked doing the lizards cause I learned a lot of things about lizards.

By Alex P

This week I enjoyed....
Doing Maori art, and learning Maori with John. I also enjoyed maths this week and learning my 7 times tables. Student Council was cool.
By Leola

This week....
I learned my 6 times tables! I have been practicing at home.
By Daisy

This week....
I enjoyed doing Art.
By Izar

This week I enjoyed
being a PAL and playing with Autahi after Lunch.
By Eden

This week I enjoyed....
playing on the mats at lunch time!
By Talia

My highlight of the week was
Learning Spanish in our languages block on Friday!
By Maddie

This week I enjoyed...
doing Jump Jam at lunchtime with the PALS.
By Greer

This week my highlight was...
Maths and student council doing the ICT management.
By Ridley

Rotations in Mahutonga!

In the morning we have rotations. On a Monday we don't have Rotations but on a Tuesday Anna's base group stays with her and all the kids stay with their base group teacher, but on a Wednesday we all move one space. This means Anna’s base group goes to John, John's base group goes to Nicola, Nicola’s base group goes to Gabrielle and Gabrielle's base group goes to Anna. Anna does finger gym/ typing,  John does reading in the library, Nicola does spelling practice and Gabrielle does cursive handwriting.

By Gemma

Typing

Mahutonga in action: Spelling and Handwriting

Spelling

Reading in the Library

Turangawaewae: My Place to Stand

Turangawaewae: My Place to Stand!

Where am I from?  Where am I connected? What is special to me? Where do I belong?  Where do I feel most at home?

These are the questions we ask ourselves when we consider our Turangawaewae.  It is a powerful thing to feel connected to a place, that your roots are there; you might feel a sense of belonging and, you are calm and complete in that place.  This is Turangawaewae; your place to stand.

Ko Tangi te Keo te Maunga

Ko te Whanganui a Tara te Moana

Ko Whetukairangi te Marae

Ko te Upoko o te Ika taku Turangawaewae!

WBS and Auroa Reading Groups Connect!

Reading groups connect
It’s great to connect with our friends at Auroa School!

Today one of our reading groups connected with a reading group in a school in the Taranaki countryside called Auroa School. We did some reading with them, were we did one paragraph and they did a paragraph.

We were reading: Awarua the Taniwha of Porirua

You can listen to the story: Awarua The Taniwha of Porirua

We managed to power through it

By Zach and Alastair

Earlier in the week some of us read half of the story and made predictions about what might happen:

We also summarised what we read then wrote our own versions. Here is one that we made on Puppet Pals: 

Learning about the Lizard Garden

 As part of our learning about Tane Mahuta, god of the forests, and how we can be powerful, we have been learning about our school's lizard garden which was created last year. We have been practising our summarising and note taking skills reading about lizards. We also visited the garden with our writers' notebooks and made tally charts of how many lizards we saw and drawings of ideal places for lizards that have been created already. We are gathering lots of ideas how we can make the garden even better for lizards.

Learning about Turangawaewae

 Today we learned about turangawaewae - our place to stand in the world. It is very connected to our parents and wider whanau and where they live. We cut out the shape of our feet and wrote on them the special places that we, or our whanau, are connected to.

This video shows the use of waewae in a more playful way: head, shoulders, tummy, hips, feet

PE Rotation: Football

Our children love giving it a go. Physical Education and general fitness are highly valued at our school! This is John's base group playing football this afternoon.