Prince Charles Visit To Waitangi

On Wednesday the 20th of November 2019 Prince Charles visited Waitangi.
Room 1 was lucky enough to get to go to Waitangi to help welcome him and the Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla) to Waitangi.
We got to sing after the speakers as their mihi tautoko.
Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa got to be part of the haka powhiri and also got to sing waitata to Prince Charles when he was down at the waka house.
It was a very special day for us to be able to do this and be in the presence of the future King.

Trace & The Beanstalk

We have been learning how to make animations and to screencastify them. We have enjoyed creating a variety of different stories and characters.
We loved working with our classmates and creating our very own movies.
This is just one of the awesome movies we made. This one is going to be entered into our school film festival competition.

Morena I Te Ao

For wiki o te reo Maori we created this video.
We have learnt lots of new sentence structures in te reo Maori and are using these in our classroom.

Enjoy this little video we put together.

Room One's Amazing Baking!!

Kia ora I te ao,
E tunu kai ana matou (we are doing some baking/cooking).

Heavenly White Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients:
125 grams Butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 3/4 cups self-raising flour
250 grams white chocolate chips

Method:
1. soften the butter for 15 seconds. Mix the butter and brown sugar with an electric beater.
2. Add the egg and beat until mixed.
3. Add the flour and the chocolate to the mixture and stir it with a wooden spoon until mixed. You might need to use your hands to mix.
4. Get small amounts and roll them into balls (about 1 tablespoon).
5. Put them onto a tray (lined with baking paper).
6. Use a fork to gently press the biscuits down.
7. Put them in the oven for 15 minutes.

*Pre-heat oven to 150 degrees on fan forced.

Kia pai o koutou ra!

Ka kite ano,
Room 1 @ Kawakawa Primary

I am...

We have been busy writing speeches about ourselves and where we come from. Ultimately what makes up the people we are today. Here is just a small snippet of some of our speeches.

Zoofari Trip

On Monday 12th August we traveled to Auckland to go to The Zoo. It was such a fun day filled with lots of observing, learning and exploring. We loved learning new facts about all the animals.

Project Island Song

Today we had Whaea Ria, Whaea Debs and Whaea Nicolette visit us at school so we could present our learning to them. It was awesome to see them again and they loved all our creations that we had made about project island song.
This is a little movie one group made to present to them.

Visits From Keyanah!

Today we had Keyanah from Room 17 give us a visit. She loved giving everyone a big hug and looking at what we were doing in Room 1. Keyanah even decided that she wanted to join in on our writing workshop. We hope Keyanah will visit again soon!

Early New Zealand

We are starting to learn about the history of New Zealand and pre European times. We have explored some different information sources and found some interesting facts. Here they are.

Where has ________ gone?

We have been lucky enough to have Whaea Whetu in our classroom to teach us Te Reo Maori. Here is a video of us using one of the sentences/questions & answers she has taught us.

Types of students in Room 1

For our assembly Room 1 students wanted to make an entertaining video to show our audience. This is what they came up with.
- No students were harmed in the making of this video
- ALL students in Room 1 are AMAZING and this was only a joke.

ENJOY!

Metaphors

We have been learning all about language features!
We can’t wait to use all these awesome language features in our writing.
Here are some of our fun metaphors we have created about ourselves.

“Maddie is flower graceful and gorgeous.” - Maddison Turton

“Kerry’s hair is coca cola flowing down her back.” - Kerry Campbell

“Trace is a scientist smart and knowledgeable” - Trace Glover

“Luca is made of metal.” - Luca Pulham

“Vontayveiz is a cheetah fast and speedy.” - Vontayveiz Tautari

“Bailey is a whirling leaf dancing in the wind.” - Bailey-Trent Koperu

“Honour is a tiger winning all his battles.” - Honour Hura

“Kamo is a butterfly flying free.” Kamo Kerehoma-Brown

Friction is a Force

Our Story Tin Poems

Im Blue.....

Our second dance that we performed at assembly today.

I Will Survive Assembly Dance!

We LOVED performing this dance to the school today during our assembly.

The 3 R's

Koru Art

We have been learning our pepeha and doing lots of te reo Maori practice. We created whanau koru art to represent the people in our whanau. Welooked at different koru, how to draw them and their features. We used pastel and dye and had so much fun doing it. We hope you love them as much as we do!!!

Forces in our environment

Today we took our learning outside! We explored, observed and recorded the ‘Forces’ we have around our school.

We loved this activity because we got to experience different forces in our everyday environment.

Some of the forces we observed;
Pushing
Pulling
Kicking a ball
Swinging a swing
Climbing
Dropping
Birds flying
Winding blowing trees
Gravity