READING: Te Ika A Maui (Myths and Legends) - Pisirina

This week we learnt read different versions of the traditional Māori story of how Maui used a magic hook to fished up the North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. 

Read through the slideshow from Pisirina - check out slide 4 and listen to her fluent and expressive reading of an excerpt from one of the texts.

Below is Pisirina's CREATE task - a review of the short film about Te Ika A Maui.

Visit her blog and leave a comment about her work this week.

 

Maths - Measuring Up!

Check out today's learning in Maths from Paschal:

For today's task we had to measure the two line's and find out which line was longer and found out that they were the same length. Then  we had to measure five other objects which were the door frame, door latch, number two sign, width of the desk and our hand span.

Visit Paschal's blog and leave a comment about his measuring skills.

Maths - Measuring Up/In Training - MADISON

This week Room 2 Maths class investigated how to measure length and distance. Check out Maddy's learning and leave a comment on her blog.

MEASURING UP - Blog Link

Today we were given to tasks, for the first task we had to find out which line was longer and which line was shorter. For the next task we had to find out the width from the top of a desk. Then the height of the door latch. Next the length of the number two sign, 4th the height of the door frame. Lastly our hand span.

IN TRAINING - Blog Link

For this task I had to find out, how many metres would Kauri run. If he ran 3 laps, and how many laps will
Kauri need to run to complete a distance of 4km. Then for question 3 we had to plan a daily running schedule for Kauri fro one month. How many laps will he need to run each day to hit the target of 7 km each week. We had to write our answers on a piece of paper.

Inquiry - Myths and Legends - DEEJAY

All the students in Team 5 had the chance to learn about 6 different stories from around the world. DeeJay has created a poster to share his learning with a key to identify all the elements in each story. Leave a comment on his blog

Using the key, find out which myths/legends feature:

a) animals

b) death

c) Gods or Goddesses

d) landforms

e) magic

This is all the key thing that where in all of the myths and legends.

INQUIRY - Watcher of the South - Xhosa Legend (South Africa) - Oali'i, Zamera, Pauline

Students in Team 5 have been learning across our block traditional stories from different cultures. In Room 2, Ms. Tapuke shared a story from the Xhosa people of South Africa about how the famous landmark, Table Mountain in Cape Town was formed.

Check out the recording from Oali'i, Zamera and Pauline of their retelling of the myth and their awesome pronunciation of isiXhosa words!

Watch this video and practise three different clicking sounds for words in isiXhosa  with the letters c, q and x  - have fun!

Last Day - Term 2 of 2020!

What a term! We started off Term 2 in lockdown at home and eventually came back to school in Week 5 to school. Our Room 2 Maths class soon became the new home class group so we farewelled some old faces and welcomed some new ones!

We have been able to spend a lot of time together over the past 5 weeks and to end the term after an awesome shared lunch yesterday, we had a round of Kia O Rahi with Room 5 and Tag. We kind of lost tack of the score but enjoyed the run around outside with each other.

We are all looking forward to our holiday break and getting back to school again in Term 3!

End of Term - Shared Lunch

Today we had a shared lunch to celebrate the end of Term 2. We outdid ourselves and ended up having a huge feast to share with each other - hot chips, ham rolls, cakes and even fresh chocolate brownies! There was so much food we all were aching with full stomachs. It was great to hang out and finally see the end of The Lion King!