Wiki Tuawaru, Wahanga Tuatahi, 2017

Meinga, Meinga, kua tere haere ngā wiki inaianei.

The weeks are flying past as we farewell week 8!!

Another great learning week for our Tūī in room 23.

Tuhituhi

We've been learning how we can use a sentence structure by using the picture to help us guess what the sentence might say and by breaking it up and then put it back together. We learnt these were called "cut up stories".

We are getting more and more confident in communicating our ideas and our ability and confidence in communicating in te reo Māori is growing as well. Our picture detail is developing each day which helps when we explain what our picture is trying to say.

Pānui

Our pānui is moving slowly but steadily, keep practicing the arapū Māori each night because we can then use that knowledge to help sound out words during wā pānui.
We can use;

• ngā pikitia (pictures)
• ngā oro timatanga (the beginning sounds)
• ngā pū (letters)
• ngā kupu waiwai (high frequency words)

to help us while we are reading. 

We have also been learning beyond the words by;

• thinking about how they characters feel
• predicting what will happen next
• identifying sentence structures and patterns
• where capital letters are found and what a full stop tells us

Pāngarau

Counting to 100 is tough but we are getting better every day. We count forward easily but counting back is tricky. 

Kei te ako mātou i ngā tauira me te pānga. Patterns are everywhere and we have been learning to identify the pattern and continue the pattern.

 We used coloured strips of paper to create our own patterns.
Te mutunga mai o te pai tamariki mā.

The best part of our week was when Ms Nathan announced that Room 23 had the BEST attendance for week 7 out of ALL of the classes at Clendon Park School. 

Me mihi ka tiki ki a koutou katoa ngā tamariki me ngā whānau e kaha ana ki te tautoko i ā koutou tamariki kia tae mai ki te kura. Mā tō rātou taenga mai ki te kura ka taea e rātou te ako i ngā mahi katoa o te kura.

Nei rā ngā tamariki o te akomanga 23 e koakoa ana me te kapu taenga ki te kura.

Mauri ora e te whānau.

Wiki Tuawhitu, Wahanga Tuatahi

Kino kē ngā Tūī o te Akomanga 23!!

Our Tūī in Room 23 have had a wonderful start to our learning this week.
With the help of Matua Dudley and Whaea Carol we began our inquiry about Hangi.

We started off with a brainstorm about hangi, 

Kei te mōhio kē mātou? What do we already know?

Their responses were:

• You put stuff in the ground.
• Put the fire in the ground.
• Put leave and wood.
• Put vegetable in - carrots and corn
• Rocks are in the fire.
• Sausages, chicken
• Have hangi at tangi and parties.

Our tamariki shared some awesome ideas about what they already knew about hangi. I then asked them what they would like to know about hangi and two pātai came about.

1. Can you cook fish in the hangi?
2. Can we cook a hangi in the oven?

After our brainstorming we watched a couple of video clips showing us how to make a ground hangi before we went into Te Korowai Aroha a Rahera to prepare our hangi for the oven.

We had to put our kai into our tray

Whaea Carol put the stuffing in before Whaea
Camille put the lids on each tray.

Matua Dudley put them all into the oven and we let them cook for just over an hour.

We went back into Te Whare Awhina and decided to look on youtube to see if you can cook fish in a hangi and we learnt that YES you can cook fish in a hangi!!

Me karakia i mua i te kai.

He reka te hangi ki a mātou katoa. 

Thumbs up for our yummy hangi in the oven.

We also learnt that we can cook a hangi in the oven not just in the ground.

Our Inquiry about Hangi was a GREAT success, no doubt this is the beginning of many more inquiries to come.

Mauri ora ki a koutou katoa e te whānau.

Wahanga 1 Wiki Tuarima me te Tuaono

Mauri ora ki a koutou katoa e te whānau, 

In week 5 we had a big class shift in Te Whānau Āwhina which meant sadly we had to say goodbye to 10 of our whānau members who moved to another class, but we then welcomed 12 new whānau members into our Tūī whānau.

We have learnt a lot in the past 2 weeks about each other and learning our routines too.

We've been making Pāngarau fun by using cards to help us with our number identification. 

 Kei te āta whakaaro a Marley-Joy, ko tēwhea te kāri tika.

Marley- Joy is thinking carefully about which cards she wants.

Each card we turn we have to read the number our loud to the rōpū before picking our second card. If both kāri are the same then we get to keep the pair, if not we turn then over again and it's the next persons turn.

Jullian is keeping a close eye on which cards Trevarn picks while he waits patiently for his turn again.

He rawe tēnei rōpū te pānui tau!!

Me whakanuia ka tika i a Kerin, nāna te tiwhikete i whiwhi i te wiki tuaono. Pāia Kerin!!

I whiwhi a Kerin i tēnei tiwhikete mō tana kaha ki te pānui, mīharo rawa atu tāu mahi e tama.

We have been busy finishing our art work for the hall. If you have a spare moment please come into our office and ask if you can have a look at all the amazing art our students have created.

Here's a sneak peak at ours.

So bright and colourful. The tamariki used a cotton bud to showcase their dotting skills. I think they turned our amazing!!

Our TWA teina enjoy their waiata and haka time with Matua Richard during Kapa Haka. Here is a video of our tama showing all their ihi and wehi with their haka.

These are only a few of the many things we have been doing in Akomanga 23, te whānau Tūī.

Watch this space as we update our blog with more awesome mahi.

Mauri ora ki a koutou katoa.

Wahanga Tuatahi, Wiki Tuarua

Ka mau te wehi!!
Two weeks done and dusted already, this term is just going to fly by!!

Hopefully you celebrated Waitangi Day by relaxing with your whānau, while remembering the importance of Waitangi Day. Click here Te Tiriti o Waitangi to learn some good facts about our history of Te Tirity o Waitangi.

We finished our week off with a whole school picnic at Totara Park. What an awesome day that was!!
We managed a little bush walk, a play at the papatākaro and a nice, cool down in the punawai/pool.

Ānei ngā whakaahu o tā mātou haerenga ki Tōtara Park.

Ko te wā kai.

E kai koutou.

After our hīkoi we made it to the papatākaro. Some of the
tamariki thought the puke would be fun to roll down.
They were right!!

Kia mataara Wairoa!!!

Hold on Kristal.

Ātaahua ēnei kōtiro tokowhā.

Smile Sapphire

Jayland - Nicholas and Hamiora have VIP seats!

GOOOO Khyan!!!!

Heke iho.

FUN!

While we wait for our turn to swim, we shall play :)

Anō.

Kia tūpato Mistyocean.

Ko te wā kauhoe ināianei.

Kei te ngenge ngā tamariki katoa. Waiting for our bas back to kura

What a fantastic day we all had at Totara Park. 
Ngā mihi nui ki ngā mātua, whānau i tae ā-tinana mai ki Tōtara Park.

Now, the hard work begins :)

Mauri ora ki a koutou e te whānau.

2017, Wahanga Tuatahi - Term One

Whakatau mai rāWhakatau mai rāNau mai, whakatau mai rā ki tēnei tau hou Pākeha.

Me mihi ka tika ki a koutou ngā whānau hou, ngā whānau tāwhito hoki o tō tātou akomanga 23.
Nau mai, whakatau mai ki tō tātou akomanga.

A big welcome to our new whānau and a big welcome back to our old whānau too. 

Welcome to our Blog. Here you will find some great updates, photos or videos about what we are learning in class.

Week 1 was all about getting to know each other and settling into our new class. We walked around our beautiful kura. Here are some of our photos.

Ānei te wāhi wharepaku :)

Ānei tō mātou wharenui, ko Te Whare Awhina tēnei

Menemene whaea Camille me ngā Tui :)

Ānei tō mātou wharekai, ko Te Korowai Aroha a Rahera.

Ānei tō mātou waharoa

Kua whakawhānui tō mātou whānau ki Te Whānau Āwhina

Kei te mōhio ēnei Tui te rārangi tika

We also had some fun with our maths. We made numbers out of some of our different rauemi/ resources we have around the classroom. Some numbers were difficult but all the tamariki done well.

Daysie and Iriana build their number 2

Ka mau te wehi kōrua

Cody used dominoes to create her number 3

Jayden used the blocks to make a tall number 1

Hamiora and Paul used the construction blocks to build a number 7

 Check in each week to see our awesome mahi and achievements.
Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa.

Term 4, Weeks 1 & 2

Te wahanga whakamutunga o te tau

Ngā mihi o te wā ki a koutou katoa. Kua timata kē mātou ko ngā tamariki o te Akomanga 23 i te wahanga whakamutunga mō tēnei tau, heoi, hui nui tonu ā mātou mahi me mahia e mātou.

Wow, term 4 already and although it's the last term we still have lots of mahi to get through before we end 2016.

Titiro mai ki ētahi o ā mātou mahi i ēnei wiki e rua. Look at some of the mahi we have done in the past 2 weeks :)

St John's
Matua Vau from St John's came and taught us a few things about first aid. The kids really enjoyed Matua Vau and took away some good lessons.

We learnt the steps to how we would help someone with a cut or gash.

Plug it

Lift it up (above the heart)

Wrap it

Hanga Hanawiti - Making Sandwiches

Our focus for tuhituhi is tuhi tohu/ procedural writing and what better way to learn the order of the steps and language needed for tuhi tohu then to make the sandwiches themselves. All the tamariki enjoyed making their hanawiti, but enjoyed eating it much more.

Tēnā, titiro mai!

Who said learning can't be YUM!!

But that's not it!! We also had our running races for Athletics too. We were proud of EVERYONE in our class who gave it a go and had fun trying too. Was such an awesome morning/afternoon cheering on our friends from our whānau as well as all the other classes too.

Whaea Camille was too busy cheering on all the tamariki and only managed to get these few photos, heoi anō, still very proud of all the tamariki who participated in any or all of the events!!
Mauri tū, mauri ora!

Our kaupapa for Pāngarau has been around Volume and Capacity. We decided to learn through play. Was awesome to see and hear the tamariki discussions during this pāngarau session.
Mātakitaki mai.

So this is just a few things from the past 2 weeks at kura. No rest for the wicked but we wouldn't have it any other way.

Mauri ora ki a tātou katoa.