Whakarua 1- Why We Need Birds .....

 

Whakarua 3's Calendar Art

 

Whakarua 1's Calendar Art

 

Whakarua 2's Calendar Art

Whakarua 3's Home Learning Friday 3rd - Tuesday 7th September

 

                         

WOW work from Miss Skyla!

This epic super sun poster from Skyla took her 2 and a half hours! Skyla I am super duper proud of you for spending this special time with Mum to create this masterpiece. Catchy title, diagrams, pictures and facts. I cannot wait for you to show and share at our final Google Hangout tomorrow. Great job superstar. -Miss G :)

Whakarua 3's Home Learning - Thursday 2nd September

                          

Thursday......!

 

Look at Whakarua 2s slides for today!

Whakarua 3's Home Learning - Wednesday 1st September

 

                           

Whakarua 3's Home Learning - Tuesday 31st August

 

                        

Whakarua 2

 

RJ's Lockdown diary, check in each day to see what he has been doing.

 

Whakarua 3's Home Learning - Monday 30th August

 

                         

Whakarua 2's Home Learning

 

Checkout Craigs story and slides to 'If my toys came alive one day...'

 

Jordyn's Lockdown Diary- Please check in each day to see what has been added

 

Sadly, Friday was Miss Pringle's last day ...... good news though... she is going to visit us when we get back to school !!!!! YAY

 

Whakarua 3 - Friday's work

 We enjoyed taking part in a 'Guess Who' baby photo game on our Google Meet this morning. Here is some of our work from today. Have a lovely weekend!

                         

Friday wow work from Whakarua 2!

 

Jordy has been busy !

 

Nice work, Jordy. I love that you have been making a garden at home, ready to plant some herbs. 

Waimirirangi's Lockdown Diary- Check in each day to see what has been added!

 

MISS PRINGLE'S LOCKDOWN BAKING CHALLENGE- Time to vote

Hey everyone! My friends, who are also training to be teachers and I had a bake off yesterday afternoon. We had three last lockdown which we really enjoyed so decided to do it again! This time it was a bake your best or favourite baking item.

Who do you think should win and why? Comment the number and a reason below!

Thanks- Miss Pringle 

 

Whakarua 2's home learning

 

Whakarua 3's Home Learning - Thursday 26th August

 

                      

Whakarua 3's Home Learning - Wednesday 25th August

 

                         

Whakarua 2's Home Learning Work Wrap

 Hi team, click through the slides to see some more great work for today.

Whakarua 3's Home Learning - Tuesday 24th August

                        

Whakarua 2's Home Learning Work Wrap

 Click through to see some great home learning from today!

Whakarua 3's Home Learning - Monday 23rd August

 

                         

Whakarua 2's Home Learning Work Wrap

 

Brooklyn's Lockdown Diary - Check in each day to see what I have been doing !

 

Kaylee and Piper's Lockdown Diary

 

Zane's Lockdown Diary

 

Whakarua 2's Home learning Work Wrap

 Click through the slides to see our 3 superstars who have sent through some work and will receive thank you tickets. Great job!

Twisty Road Writing by Bella and Austin

The twisty road picture has been a popular choice for writing this week! Have a look at Bella and Austin's writing.

The Whakarua 1 Bakers Strike Again!

 

Kaylee & Piper. Home Learning Day 3

 

Whakarua- Check out your MAGIC teachers

 

Ben's Lockdown work - Day 2

Check out the handwriting and artwork that Ben did today. Here is the link to the Words Into Pictures videos that Ben used to make his drawings (you can see that he has highlighted the word within the picture). Have you tried any of the Words Into Pictures drawings?

Zane's Lockdown Work - Day 2

Well done, Zane. We loved reading your story and, like you, we think that an earthquake may have caused that crazy road situation that you saw on the learning site. It was a good idea for the family in the story to go home another way. It would have been like driving on a roller coaster otherwise!

Here is the picture that Zane was writing about- Write what you think caused this crazy road in the comment section below! 

More Work From Kaylee!

 

Lockdown Day 2- Whakarua 1-

Nice to see and chat to all these lovely kids. 

We wrote a 'to do' list together today. 

1. Email a teacher

2. Complete 1 task on the home learning site

3. Play a game

 

Day 1 in Lockdown for Maizy

Poor duck :( 

Happy Maizy :)

 

Nice Work, Kaylee!

Well done, Kaylee. 
Day 1 of lockdown and you have emailed fabulous work to your teacher already.

Click here to see all the cool things we have put on the learning site.

 

Day 1 Level 4 Lockdown- NZ!

Mōrena team whakarua! 

This morning we held our first google hangout and what a great turnout we had. It was great to see all your faces, animals and play a game. We discussed our online learning for the next three days. Check out this link on our learning site and have a go at our daily challenges! 

Expect an email from your homeroom teacher tomorrow morning for the link for your homerooms google hangout at 11am (Thursday 19th and Friday 20th). Can't wait to see you there!

Be sure to make a nice comment on this blog post for a 'thank you' ticket when we return back to school. Perhaps you could share what work you might do today or something you plan on doing over the next three days with your family.

Kia kaha, be kind to one another xx

 

Celebrating Mathematics in Whakarua 1

 

Celebrating moving up a reading level!!!

 Here are some fantastic readers who have worked hard and moved up a reading level! It is super important to celebrate success and how hard these learners have worked. The only one missing is Slade as he was away today. Congratulations Tyson, Jacob, Declan and Oliver!

Here are some AWESOME sentences from our writing last week!

 

Want to Learn About Chickens?

Check out these facts from the Whakarua 1 readers. 

 

Plays and Puppets

 Today in Whakarua we have been working on special puppet scripts. Check them out below. We made the puppets last week.

Some Interesting Facts About Stick Insects

 

Maths today in Whakarua 1

 

Whakarua 3's Finished Artwork

Check out our completed pastel artwork inspired by characters from the myth The Battle of the Mountains. We are loving the splash of colour they have added to our classroom walls.

April Fools Day in Whakarua

After learning about a new species of penguin who can actually fly, the children got some scissors out and helped Mr Smith cut the grass edges as the mower was 'out of service'. 

Maths time today.....

Sometimes one whiteboard just isn't enough for these mathematicians. 

 

First Step of Whakarua 3's Myth Artwork

We have been retelling some different New Zealand myths at writing time, so we are doing some artwork about the myth Battle of the Mountains. Yesterday we practised drawing one of the mountain characters on a whiteboard, and today we used pencil to draw the outline of our chosen characters. We focused on drawing lightly with pencil and making sure that the features were nice and big. 

Here are some photos of the first step. Come back tomorrow to check out the next step of our artwork.

Skip Counting to 1000!

Joel challenged himself to skip count to 1000. 

Nice work, Joel!

 

STEP 1 of our art

We are creating art works inspired by the story Māui and the Sun. 

Here is what we did today: 

We drew our plans on whiteboards, making sure we used all the space and added detail to tell the story. We then used chalk to sketch our pictures on big pieces of paper. When we were happy with our drawings, we used pencil to outline them. 

Tomorrow we are going to paint our suns. 

Stay tuned for more pictures of our art lessons. 

 

Whakarua 1 Maths Today

Check out these hard workers from maths time today. We have been learning how to use 'make 10' to make 20, super skip counting and fabulous fractions! 

 

Fractions

Kurt has been learning about fractions. He matched the fractions with the pizzas. Kurt's favourite pizza is pepperoni. 

 

Check out how we learned all about Waitangi Day....

 

Some Awesome Fact Finding By Mrs M's Reading Class

 

Response from Jacinda Ardern!!!

 Hi all, hope you have had a safe and happy Christmas/New Year. At the end of last year, some children in Miss Goslin's homeroom wrote and sent letters to Jacinda Ardern about Plastic Pollution (see post below). Today I have received some exciting news! See her response below.