Maths Mahi

Kia ora koutou katoa,
We have been enjoying our maths learning and love using our environment to show numbers.
We have been learning to show our numbers by using groups as it is an easier way to work out the total number. We love discovering the different ways we can group different numbers and having to problem solve when we can't quite figure out why our groups aren't always equal.

Kia ora whanau, Room 16 has been loving our maths mahi. We have enjoyed exploring numbers and being problem solvers. We have also been using our maths eyes to find maths in our environment and we are getting very good at it. We really enjoyed exploring statistics with our Disney character tiles and we were able to sort our tiles into groups and find the characters that had the least and most tiles. We are also getting awesome at justifying our answers and explaining how we got them with our learning buddies.

Kia ora Whanau,  we have been busy little bees in Room 16 getting to know each other and our environment. We have been making play dough to use in our learning, creating self portrait art, showing off our awesome swimming skills and we all loved the Navy helicopter landing on our school field. We were lucky enough to get to sit in the Navy helicopter which was super exciting! 2020 is going to be an awesome year! Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to….

   

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.