Matariki Celebrations 2020

Today our whole school celebrated Matariki, the Maori New Year. We started with a school assembly. Students from Room 2 were part of the performances - John and Sione on guitar and Nevaeh and Nina as part of the choir singing the Matariki song from Rahera Davies.

From L to R: Pisirina, John, Nevaeh, Kitione, Nina, John, Eternity and Sione

After assembly we split into different groups across the school - in Room 2 with the help of Miss Vili, our group used paper, glue, wool and cardboard to make star cards to represent Matariki and her six daughters, Tupu-ā-nuku, Tupu-ā-rangi, Waipunarangi, Waitī and Waitā, and Ururangi.

Check out the artwork that Valessa and Kauri made using pastels in their workshop session with Mr Goodwin.

VALESSA

Today on Friday 26 of June it was matariki fun day and we were about to see which activities we were about to do for the whole 6 hours of school! There was Cooking , arts and crafts , Sports , Movie making and I was put in arts and craft , My class I was in was room 7 and the teacher was Mr Goodwin For art we had to create a galaxy kind of art , Here is my art I made it didn't take long took maybe a hour or less to make this . 

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KAURI

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What did/will you and your class/school do to celebrate Matariki this year?

Decimal Master - Dice Game with AJ

Check out AJ's blog post  a dice game we got from our student teachers. You have to use your knowledge of decimal numbers to get the high score and win the game!

Task description:Today we did a game with a class called Dice games which is adding decimals with 3 decimals (tenths, hundredths and thousandths and by building the biggest number.

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Fun with Decimals!

This week, Room 2 had the help of four awesome student teachers from University of Auckland  to help us to learn more about Decimal Place Value. They worked hard to come up with a learning experience on a new site especially for the students in Room 2!

They designed a set of activities to give students plenty of practise on how to order decimal numbers up to 3 decimal places. By the end of the week, the students were showing lots of confidence in their understanding and use of tenths, hundredths and thousandths!

Check out the video to see how much fun Room 2 had playing a dice game called Place the Digits. There was some fierce competition to find out who was the Decimal Master with the largest decimal number!

A huge KIA ORA/THANK YOU to Kristy, Jeni, Sarah and Emma-Rose from Room 2 for a fun week of Maths learning!

IN THE NEWS... Current Events with Paschal and Kauri

IN THE NEWS this week is a story about Rocket Lab is a Kiwi-American company with an office near us in Mt Wellington, Auckland. Check out what Paschal thought of their recent launch attempt.

Read Kauri's impressions about an ordinary Kiwi guy stepping in to save our national Kiwi bird.

Inquiry - Biosphere 2 - Kauri

Kia ora! Today Kauri share's his learning about Biosphere 2 - an interesting experiment that started in 1987. Check out Kauri's slideshow below:

MATHS - Properties of 3D Shapes - Paschal

Paschal shares his learning today about the properties of different three dimensional (3-D) shapes.
Visit his blog and leave a comment for him.  Test your own knowledge of faces, vertices and edges!

IN THE NEWS... Current Events with Jarreka, Simon and Caleb

Starting this week, we are going to take a look at different news items that took place locally (around Auckland), nationally (somewhere in Aotearoa/New Zealand) and internationally (everywhere else!). We want to build our knowledge of events that are happening outside our front door of where we live here in Glen Innes! 

Check out JARREKA's response to our first story about a critically ill black turtle that washed up on to a local Auckland beach.

Read SIMON's thoughts about how cotton was used to track down German wasps causing problems on the Chatham Islands.

Find out why CALEB was fascinated with an ancient coin.

Nesi - My Paloveape (Pepeha) - TAHA WAIRUA

Mālō e lelei! Today Akanesi took up the TAHA WAIRUA challenge from Mamarei to share her pepeha in Tongan - her paloveape that shares information that is personal and important to her of places, landmarks and whanau names. Malo 'aupito Nesi!

TE REO - He aha enei? How many are there? - KAHURANGI

Kahurangi shows off his Te Reo Maori skills to ask and answer questions using numbers.

 He aha enei? - how many are there? Check out his 'alien' conversation on slide 6!

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