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.