Rata Tahi: March 2017

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Our Taniwha's are up in the cloakroom.

Come and look..

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Our Inquiry topic this term is...

Minibeasts

Today we talked about being Entomologists

(bug scientists).

We will be going outside to look at bugs and find bugs. Before we start to look for bugs we need to know about how to be safe when outside and how to look after the bugs we see.

We are going to write a tikanga matatika (code of conduct)

We need to think about the values of

Kaitakitanga (guardianship), manaakitanga (kindness) and mauri (respect for all living things)

Today we brainstormed our first ideas........

Watch this space.....

MATHS

This week we have been working on problem solving using word problems.

Today's problem..........

Who solved the problem?

We read the problem and had a go at answering the question.....

Then we used material to solve the problem

Sacha and Daniel were to first to solve the problem.

Well done!

Writer of the Day

Well done, Danielle..
You are a writer.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Our Social Skill is Friendship.

This week Sacha and Chloe received a

Friendship certificate....

Sacha and Chloe were very kind and sharing.
They worked together to finish a very hard puzzle
Ka Pai

Connor received a GOLDEN TICKET
for showing respect to others at lunchtime.
Ka mau te wehi
You are awesome Connor

Managing Our Own Time...

We love Friday mornings.

MOOT is a ninety minute, activity based programme. The children have a chance to take control of their own learning through planned, structured, ‘hands on’ activities and experiences.

Thursday, March 23, 2017

We are learning about 2d shapes....

Today we made some shapes pictures.
We used circles, rectangles, ovals, half circles and some shapes with 5, 6 and 8 sides.

Do you know what a 5 sided shape is called?

Do you know what a 6 sided shape is called?

Look at the shape pictures we made.....

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Awarua, the Taniwha of the Porirua Harbour

Awarua

the Taniwha of Porirua Harbour

Raaah!

Who is behind these

Terrific Taniwhas?

It is us! Rata Tahi!

Soon our Taniwhas

will be on the wall

in the cloakroom.

Monday, March 20, 2017

Last Day of Swimming

On our last day of swimming

we learnt survival skills.

It was so much fun!

Thank you Andrew and Holly.

Ka mau te wehi!

Swimming Fun! on PhotoPeach

Friday, March 17, 2017

Happy St Patrick's Day

From Rata Tahi and Chloe!

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

We had a great day at Capital E National Arts Festival.

We had a bus ride, we saw three wonderful shows and had our lunch on the Wellington waterfront. Thank you to all the Parents who came and helped us.