Different Countries and their culture

 We have been learning about different cultures around the world. The students researched about the culture of a country that they wanted to learn about. This was done as a homework project and then they presented it to the class. 

Litterless lunches

 We have been fortunate to have Anouk -Environmental Educator come into our class this week to talk to us about Litterless lunch boxes.  

A honey wrap is an environmentally friendly alternative to using glad wrap. It can be used for wrapping lunches, leftovers, and snacks, The beeswax covered cloth can be used again and again, reducing rubbish!

 We learnt about 

Reduce: Cut down on packaging and food waste by purchasing fresh produce and bulk bin items.

 Reuse: Pack lunches in reusable containers. 

Recycle: Use recycle bins instead of tossing recyclables in the trash. 

Respond: Take action and support Nutritious, waste-free meals. Make a difference for yourself; make a difference in your community.

Then we made bees wax wraps. 

    

Our Portraits

We have learnt how to sketch our faces and then we used people  paint to colour our face. We painted the background using watercolours. Then we blended the watercolours to create our hair. When we had finished the painting we add detail using sharpies.

 

Recyling paper

 On Monday Anouk came in to show us how to create recycled paper using our paper scraps from in the classroom.  It was fun getting our hands squishy wet in the paper mixture.  We are saving trees by reusing paper.  Trees are very important to us.

Swimsafe

 Today we had a visit from Corinna, who came to teach us about being swimsafe.  We learnt the importance of always wearing a lifejacket when on a boat, how to lie in the water, the signal for being rescued and how to be a tight huddle in a small group to stay safe.  We also learnt lots more about being safe at the beach and by any water.  One thing we all have to practise is being able to float on our backs, and if we can do that then turn from back to front and back again. Next year Corinna will be back to teach us more about being swimsafe, this time in the water.  Be safe around the water everybody.

First Swim

 Today we had our first swim for the summer season.  About 3/4 of the class remembered their swimming gear and the rest spent the time bike riding.

Ohaeawai School Pet day

On Friday we had our School Pet Day. The day was fine and sunny and we had a great turn out of students with their pets and their whanau. Thanks to the wonderful judges who came in to judge the students' animals and Art.

Here are some of the students' entries.

Kaikohekohe Education Trust Movies

 Each year the Kaikohekohe Education Trust has a movie night where the schools create movies and then we share these with all the other schools. As we have had Covid 19 this year we did not have the movie night. Instead the schools did their own screening of the movies in their schools.Here are movies the movies for parents and whanau to view.

Speeches

 We used our persuasive writing to write our speeches and then we learnt our speeches. Here are some of our class speeches.

Reusing newspaper

 On Monday we had a visit from Anouk.  She showed us how to make newspaper pots for gardening.  We made lots and have potted some tomato plants in them.  These are ready to be planted straight in the ground. What a great idea!

Greats and grands gifts

 For greats and grands day tomorrow our clever class have potted some succulent plants.  The children have made a cute note for inside and we have covered the outside of the pot with a tied up coffee sack.

Project Energize Athletics

 This morning we had a visit from Matua Tupara.  He taught us skills in throwing a discus, long jump and running.  

Term 3 Movies

 In Team Maunga Nui some groups have been making movies. These 4 movies were shared in our school movie judging. 

Te Reo Moment

 At midday today we shared in the Maori Language moment with over 700,000 tangata (people).  In 1972 at this time, a petition with 30,000 signatures was presented to the New Zealand parliament calling for te reo to be taught in schools.  He waiata tino pai!

Learning about our Pou

 Team Maunga Nui have been learning about our beautiful pou.  Six of these represent our Ohaeawai School values and the other one is the Kereru which is the kaitiaki of the local Ohaeawai, Taiamai area.  These photos show the tamariki sketching the pou.  They then had to write a description of the pou.

Art inspired by Lynley Dodd Nickle Nackle Tree

 

Taumata at the morning assembly

 Last week students from Team Maunga Nui were sitting on the Taumata at morning assembly. 

Cross Country 2020

 Covid 19 could not stop us from having our Ohaeawai School cross country today.  Sadly no parents could join us but we successfully created our first Livestream of the event.

Making 10

 We are learning how to use our basic facts to make 10 to solve addition equations.

Buddy Reading with our Tuakana

 Every day our reading buddies from Team Moana come into class after fitness to support Team Maunga Nui students with their reading. 

                                            

Persuasive Writing

In writing, we have been learning how to write a persuasive piece of writing.  We have used OREO to help us remember what we need to have in our writing.

O  state our opinion

R reason 

E examples

O restate our opinion.

Squishy Shoes

This weeks poem

 

Project Energise Learning ball skills

Today we had Matua Tupara from Project Energise. He taught ball skills that can be used in different sporting codes.

The students enjoyed the afternoon of fun and learning.

Descriptive writing: The Bike

One of the pieces of writing this week was to add adjectives to their writing. 

Play Dough

This weeks poem

 

Matariki fun

On Wednesday 1 July the whole school celebrated Matariki.  Each of the teachers had activities for the students.  Here are a couple of the creations; a Marae recreation complete with maunga, awa, whare, waka, tangata, marama and kiwi.  Below are Maori masks where a lot of the children cleverly made up their own designs..  We all had fun creating and mixing with different students/teachers. Following was a feast of sausages and iceblocks.  Happy Matariki everyone!

Rocket making

In the last two weeks of term we have been learning about how a rocket works.  The class have all created their own rockets using recycled materials.

Dialogue writing

The class have been writing short dialogues and illustrating them.  They have been learning that their story has to have a problem and clear writing so it can be read easily.

Maui and the sun

We have been reading Maui and the Sun as our shared book. The students had to choose the part of the book they liked. Using Explain everything they created part of the story and wrote what happened. 

                                                       

Dan

                                                           

I am a Star Poem

This weeks Poem

I am a star

I am a star and I will dream big 

I will reach for the clouds

And touch the moon along the way

I will push off the ground 

and into the earth my heels will dig

I will aim for the sky 

and won’t come down ‘till the bright of day

Space Rockets

We have been learning about how a rocket works.  The class watched a video that showed the Dragon spacecraft being launched into space to then attach to a space station.  Here is some of the children's writing and a photo of our own example of how a rocket needs the right amount of fuel to get liftoff.

Bee Bots writing

 The students wrote to explain how they made their Bee-Bot adventures.