Te Wiki o te Reo Maori

This week it was Maori Language week. In Room 7 we were playing 21 and we did it in Maori. We have little booklets and in Maori it is spelled Rataka. Inside the Rataka there is days in the week, shapes, numbers, greetings, feelings, objects in the classroom, body parts, colours, simple commands and farewells.  We have a colouring in competition.
The most popular colours in Maori are whero, ma and mangu/pango.
Some body parts are puku and waewae.
We also do wakatauki.  In English it's a proverb.
I have  learned how to count in Maori.
I think that it is an amazing culture. The reason I think that it is an amazing culture is because of how they say things. The words are spelt differently and we say them differently too.

 By Faith

Wear your Scarf and Woggle

Today is the International Scarf Day for Cubs, scouts, and Keas.  We have three in our class!

Wet Lunchtime Fun

Monday's Whakataukī

Here is our proverb for today:

What do you think this means?  How does it apply to you?  Respond in the comments.

Improving our blog

We discussed the things we would like to add to our blog, or change. Elliot wrote the notes of our ideas on the whiteboard.

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

This week is Maori Language Week.  We will start each day with a whakatoukī (proverb).  There will be lots of other activities and we will put them up on the Blog.

My quilt By Iela

 

This is my quilt, I made it out of shapes.

I used:

-Diamonds

-triangles

-squares

- rectangles

I had some help from my friends George and Sophie, it took me about three days to finish this.

We did this for maths, we had four stations, first group was the quilt station when we have to create our own quilt, then the draw 3D station when we had to draw 3D shapes, third group was the cubes station we need to put cubes together to make the shapes on the piece of paper, fourth group was the make 3D that's when we get to make 3D shapes with playdough.

Practice art for the fair

This is our art for the fair.

This is our practice. 

Do you like it?

George's 3d shapes

My Happy life

Our happy life is wonderful because we can play with our friends, and play games to enjoy  with  our   friends. We    play  sports   like  rugby, netball, basketball ,baseball  we also like  playing  board games  and   writing ,math ,reading. We  also like going on vacation and going around the  world. We love to go to our friend's house and play other sports like soccer. Having a friend is good so you won't be lonely and you can visit at your friend's house.
By Shay and  Josh

On Sudden Hill by Linda Sarah and Benji Davies

There were once two boys who loved boxes, their names are Birt and Etho. Everyday they would go on to sudden hill with their two cardboard boxes. All day they would play together, But what they loved most of all was their friendship. Then one Monday When Birt and Etho was on top of Sudden hill They saw another Box lover named Shu who has been watching them and always wanted to join them, finally found the right sized box and Shu had the courage to ask if he could play. On Etho's Face grew a smile, Sure! said Etho. Sometimes Etho and Shu  play Dragon slayers, Side-by-side house dwellers and skyscraper dancers, Birt feels strange. Then one night Birt smashes his box Rips it to bits so that he may never use it again. Then his Dad Started shouting in the next room something about being quiet. Birt stops going to Sudden Hill, Sometimes Etho and Shu come along but Birt avoids them, all he does is draw pictures of boxes...

What will happen next?

I enjoy this book because it is about friendship:)

Iela       

Three great sentences

1)  Tomorrow my mum and dad are going to tropical  Rarotonga for a party.

2) At Christmas my cousin Jake got up to some mischief and ate chocolate  in bed.

3) I like standing on the podium, it makes me feel proud of myself.

Why I like these 3 sentences that I have written:

I think I have used  great  adjectives and they make sense.

Sophie

Your weather report

It's cold outside and lots of people are wearing lots of layers.In some of the classrooms the teachers have the heat pumps on.It looks like it might rain I hope it does not rain.Its not windy outside.we are still inside. By Faith

Geometry Rotation

Designing quilts with 2D shapes

Learning to draw 3D shapes

Making 3D shapes with play dough

Making 3D shapes with cubes

Welcome Back

Hi Room 6,
Hope you have had a great holiday. I am looking forward to seeing you back at school tomorrow.
:) Miss Barker

Yulianna's Solar Oven

Zoe's solar oven and anemometer

Shay's Homework Effort

Shay has worked hard to make a model of a marae, an obstacle course, electricity and ASACE poster.

Maddy's Awesome Homework

Maddy has been busy making a marae, a dream bedroom and a board game.

Daniel's challenge homework

Daniel's anemometer and journal.

Solar oven

Elliot made this amazing solar oven. He had to do lots of tricky maths to find out the focal point and the hottest part of the solar oven.