Term 2 Week 1

 Kia ora e te whānau

I hope the break was nice and you are all refreshed and ready to roll for term 2. We were straight into our school and class routines and I know we are only in week one but that holiday seems like a long time ago.

We have 2 new additions to our room 15 whānau, Tianna and Oceanaia, and they have fitted in seamlessly with everyone being very help and welcoming which is good because after all, it is a part of our class treaty.

We started looking into Matariki this week with our Play, Make Create book being Flit the Fantail and the Matariki Map. We completed some writing around directions from room 15 to another location in school. We read these out loud for students to visualise a map in their head and guess where they were being directed to. We also linked the piwakawaka to our poem of the week which had a focus on onomatopoeia. For our sketching we headed to the nature trail to sketch some trees and lo and behold, a piwakawaka came down and visited us. We finished off the week by making our own piwakawaka that the children have brought home.

         

Kapa haka was back on this week. We sung many waiata and began learning their actions with the help of Whaea Penny. 

                                       

 Check out Seesaw for our lovely messages that the children have written for you mums. Enjoy the weekend whānau mā, especially our mums on Sunday. I hope it is relaxing and you are spoilt from the whole whānau.

Mauri ora

Matua Taki