Winter Slippers

Winter Slippers

My Oma (nan) knitted our class slippers so we can have warm feet when we're at school. She made 50 pairs, so my class got half and my sisters class got the other half. She has knitted slippers for other schools in Whakatane and Napier as well. I think my Oma is very kind because she makes slippers for other kids and wants them to be happy. By Nahkeishar Franklyn - Johns

Autumn Poems

Cyber Smart Mahi

Autumn Leaves Poetry:

This week we created Autumn Poems during our Cyber Smart lesson with Koka Amie. We had to "drag and drop" different words to form our poems. We also had to use Loom to record our poems, then create a link from our slide to our video. 

                       

  

Matariki

Matariki

Matariki stories

Last week we started looking at different Myths and Legends about Matariki. We had a go at retelling the stories in our own words. Here are a few of our stories...

Maui Slowed down the Sun. Tama - nui-te- ra, the sun, was angry and went to hide. Without the sun it got cold. It was winter. The people missed the sun. Matariki sang songs and brought back the sun. Everyone was happy. Matariki is a time when we remember and celebrate. By Swyft

Maui and his  brothers slowed Tama nui te ra .The sun was hurt and hid away. It was cold and all the people were sad. Matariki and her sisters sang songs and brought Tama nui te ra back. By Waiariki

Cyber Smart Mahi

Cyber Smart

Google Drawings - Profile Pictures.

Room 2 have been working on their profile pictures using Google Drawings. We are getting quite good at creating different shapes and inventing fun colour schemes. Check out our mahi!

Marae Noho

Marae Noho

Waihirere Marae

Last week Elgin School had a Marae Noho at Waihirere Marae. Every year we visit different marae around the region. We stayed overnight and learnt about Marae tikanga and matariki. We visited Waihirere Domain, and Eastwood Hill. Here are a few stories written by our students. 

  

Music

Recorder Lessons:

We have started up our recorder lessons for the term. We are learning to follow our music, play a B, A, G and blow softly on our recorders. We also learnt a new song called "A little Melody" - which was a bit tricky.

Cybersmart Monsters

Cybersmart lessons with Koka Amie.

We have been learning how use different tools in Google Drawings. We created our very own monsters using shapes, lines, patterns and colours. We also practiced using some of our short cuts to copy and paste -  to make sure our monster body parts remained the same, and to save time. Some of us recorded a short clip using Loom to talk about our monsters.