Marae Noho

Marae Noho

Last week Elgin school stayed the night at Muriwai Marae. Every year our school visits and learns about the different Marae around our region. Muriwai is special to us because we are friends with the children from Muriwai school. We have also learnt about Te Kuri a Paoa (Young Nicks Head) which is part of Muriwai. Here are a few stories from Room 2 tamariki about their stay at the marae. 

Ko wai tō ingoa?

We are learning our pepeha.

Here is a video of us responding to "Ko wai tō ingoa?"

Do you know your pepeha?

Elgin School Pepeha

Elgin School has their own pepeha.

Here is Room 2 saying their school pepeha.

You can read the pepeha - it is below our video.

Does your school have a pepeha?

Ko wai tō ingoa?

We know the school pepeha and now we have been learning our own pepeha.
We have made recordings of us saying our names too and 
will try to make a movie of it so we can share it.
Some of us were away today so we will add our selfie
as soon as we can.

 

Visual Mihi

Room 2 created a visual mihi. 

They used Google Drawings to create a 

visual mihi to show information about themselves using images. 

Room 2 were making smart decisions about their digital footprint when they created their visual mihi. 

They had to decide which personal information they could share online to show the 4 most important things in their life. 

 Look at their visual mihi and see if you have the same things that are important in your life as them.

Spring

Every week we work with Kōkā Cheryl. 

She is a facilitator with Manaiakalani.

Last week we made Spring Poems 

from a magnetic poetry template.

This week we had a go at using the polyline tool in 

Google Drawings to trace a daffodil.

We also created our own flowers using shapes and scribble lines. 

Here is some of our work. Do you like Spring? We do!

A day in Room 2

A day in Room 2

Week 2:Term 4

This week Room 2 have decided that they'd like to show everyone - what a "normal day" in our class looks like. Zyrah and Ataahua will explain what we do in the morning. Brooklyn will explain out middle and Kyro will explain our afternoons. 

Morning Block

We start the morning with a Karakia and then we do the roll, after that we go off to fitness.
         
                        

Middle Block

                         

Afternoon Block

                           

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu:

Week 1: Term 4:

This week has been a busy one for Room 2. We have moved into the library as our class is getting a new roof and walls. This week we practiced our earthquake drills, as we took part in the big shake out. We are also getting ready for our local Kapa Haka festival, athletics and our Marae Noho - which are all in the next few weeks.


This term we are also part of the Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu program - where we buddy up with other manaiakalani classes and follow each others learning blogs. This term we are following Room 1 from Kawakawa School. Below is a little slide show introducing our class to our new friends. 


                       

Balloon Rockets

Balloon Rockets

Week 7: Stem Challenge:

The challenge for the week was to create a balloon rocket using straw, tape and a balloon. We had to create a line for our balloon to travel along. We could put our line anywhere in the class - as long as we were safe and cleaned up our mess.

                       

                   

          

This is what we found out...

 

Marshmallow Towers

Marshmallow Towers

STEM CHALLENGE Week 6:

Today our challenge was to build the tallest tower out of marshmallows and straws. At first the children were excited, but after a while they found the challenge wasn't as easy as they had thought!

                                       

                         

 

This is what some of our students discovered....

                                                                                    

                      

STEM Challenges:

 Room 2 has been completing different STEM challenges as part of our Topic Study. The children can tell you what STEM stands for as well. We started our new learning off with a whanau fun day, where our families came to school and completed various challenges.

                        

 

Last week the students in Room 2 had to build the strongest tower out of plastic cups and wooden blocks. We had 10 minutes to plan and build our towers. 

 

We had to work together as a team. Miss Poi wanted to test to tower the towers by throwing manaaki balls at them We thought this was a great idea - but decided to bust them ourselves. 

                           

Destroying the towers!

                      

The winner:

The strongest tower designed by the boys: Gallace, Kauri and Brooklyn. 

100% attendance

        100% attendance 

Today all 16 children from Room 2 were at school and on time! It is the first time, this term (and it is week 9), that every child in the class has been on the mat when Miss Poi has called the roll. She was so happy!
One of our manaaki goals is to achieve 100% attendance. If we achieve this, then we get an extra 10 minutes play during interval.
We also talked about, and recorded our ideas on "why it is important to come to school everyday".

Miss Poi was so happy that everyone was at school on time, so we took a photo to capture that moment.

  

Whanau fun day

whanau fun day is about sports. first we were doing fitness to warm up then we started to do our other things tawhiri was the first one to ride the bikes.

to day I learned how to embed my work into our blog . by Aronui 

Matariki stars

Matariki is a special group of stars in the sky i learned the names of the two new matariki stars pohutukawa and hiwa-i-te-rangi.

Today i learnt  how to embed my work into our blog by Atahlia

Matariki

The museum trip
Room 2 was cutting some paper it had insects we saw a seagull.
And we saw heaps of bones.
And a bug but it was so big.
It was also about matariki.
And we saw a gun.

I am Gallace.
  

Matariki at the Museum

Room 2  went  to   the   museum   to  learn  about   Matariki.  When Room 2 got there, Room 2  saw  a seagull   up  the  top  of  the   ceiling.   when  room  2   sat  on  the  mat   we   seen  the  9   stars. the  name's  was  matariki  ururangri  waipuna-a-rangi, waiti, waita, tupu-a-nuku, tupu-a-rangi, hiwa-i-te-rangi, pohutukawa.

By Brooklyn

Burger Rings Boy's Blog

Today we looked at blogs from schools in the Manaiakalani programme.

One of our favourite blog posts was this one called Burger Rings Boy

We made a comment on Burger Rings Boy's blog:

Screenshot of the comment we made on Burger Rings Boy's blog.

It was neat watching the videos that other learners shared about their learning. Maybe we could learn to create and share videos too.

Nā Alexis and Cassidy.

Our Production: Believe

Our whole school did a production about making people believe in fairy tales. Lots of our families came to watch us do the production. They were proud of us.

Photo: All the fairy tale creatures came to Shrek's swamp.

Photo: Mother pig, three little pigs, farmer, gardener, builder, wolf and a reader.

This photo reminds us of our classmate Ariana, she has gone to Australia to live. All of these fairy tale characters are from Room 2.

The production started at 6 pm so that our families could come, we had to go early so that we could ready into our costumes. In our practice production we mucked up sometimes, but by the final night we almost got it all right. Some of us were nervous and got stage fright.

Our next school production will be next year, we might do Snow White or The Wizard of Oz.

By Alexis and Cassidy.

Manaaki: Tautoko

Our manaaki value for term 2 is Tautoko - Respect. This week Room 2 worked hard to show respect during learning time. By doing this we were able to earn manaaki balls. Each week we set a target and we  try to earn as many manaaki balls as we can. Our goal was to earn 20. We achieved our goal and had a special treat just before home time - Chocolate Log!

 

How do you show respect during learning time?

 Brooklyn

 Alexis   

Our Values

Manaakitanga is our school value.
We talk about manaaki and what this means to us.

Manaaki Balls are to reward you for showing our values.

Today we set a goal of reaching 20 balls by Friday, then we get to have golden time.

Golden time is about what we choose to do, like using the computers, art and making slime.
This week I hope we get to do art.

Maths Groups

When we do our maths work we...

Then we....

We can work things out on our own...

And, we can help each other...

Caring For Our Devices

Room 2 have been thinking about how we show manaakitanga with our devices.

We are creating a "Kawa of Care" to help us look after our devices.
We used the computers to write down our ideas.

Then we turned these into positive "doing" comments...