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.

Letters to Jacinda Ardern!

Kia ora team, today we sent off some of our letters to the Prime Minister (Jacinda Ardern).  These are to do with our Inquiry Topic and plastic pollution. We are hopeful that we get a reply! This has been an awesome experience for our tamarki to discuss the idea of persuasive letter writing and learning more about our government.

 

Summer Learning Journey

 

Kick Start  Learn  Watch: colouring time lapse  Create Art Colouring Book: choose an image to colour.  Download a copy to your Chromebook  Take a screen shot of the original Art   Describe why you chose a different colour for one of the objects in the painting. Share  Upload your Art and a screenshot of the original and label each image. Insert your description in your post Watch: create your blog post.

Step It Up Learn  Watch: Elements of Art Read: Elements of Art Use the Zoom Tool Look closely at the original image you chose to colour. What do you see?   Create  Art Colouring Book: choose an image to colour. Write a description of the Art you chose using as much detail as you can from the elements of art.  Share Upload your Art and a screenshot of the original and label each image. Insert your description in your post Watch: create your blog post.

Rakau with Whakarua 1 and 2

Today we started learning about rakau through our Music and Te reo unit. We composed our own 'Winter Melody' after learning about syllables. We then clapped out the rhythm and practised using our rakau to beat it out. Check out Sophia and Adele's take on their Winter Melody.

 

Yeah The Boys!

 Good luck to Eli, Mesake and Frank who are heading off to Zones today for Athletics. We are so proud of you boys! Sorry to the girls who I couldn't find them to get a photo off before they took off this morning.