Congratulations last week to our 100% spellers; Dua, Anaiya, Daniel, Winter, Bella, Holly, Momoka, Airlie and Ocean! So many of you have also been 100% spellers for the whole of Term 1. Tino pai mahi koutou!
Hoppy Easter
Today we had a visit from Easter Bunny and his helper. They very kindly delivered eggs for all the tamariki in Team Maunga. Thank you very much Doug and Shontel Brown for this wonderful idea and making it happen. Wishing everyone a Hoppy Easter and a great holiday.
Maunga Iti – Kupe
We have been learning about the brave explorer Kupe and how he navigated his waka to Aotearoa.
Mrs Ritchie helped us design and create waka. We discussed why two hulls were important on our waka.
Maryanne helped us display our wonderful art.
April Fools chocolate joke
Mrs Stevenson the Easter Bunny brought in some treats for all the tamariki in Maunga this morning. What the children thought was a delicious Easter Egg treat turned out to be a healthy grape wrapped in easter foil. Haha! such fun! but then they did get to eat the real chocolate egg and whislt doing so came up with a whole lot of interesting adjectives to describe it using their senses; feel, hear, see, smell and taste.
Navigation Play, make, create.
Today we used our knowledge and imagination to create items we use in the past and present for navigation and building waka and ships.
Kupe and the Giant Wheke Animations.
We have been learning how to create stop go animations. Here are a few of our creations.
Greedy Cat Art and Adjectives
Team Maunga and Maunga Iti have been reading a shared book about Greedy Cat. Our tamariki have come up with lots of interesting adjectives to describe Greedy Cat and some have been used in writing. We have also been having a focus on the at word family, cat, mat, hat … See how many different at words you can think of at your house!
Team Maunga Super Spellers Week 7 Term 1
Congratulations to all the 100% spellers this week from Maunga and Maunga Iti. We are so happy that so many of you are learning your letter sounds and spelling words. Tino pai mahi koutou! Maunga Iti – Harley, Mikaere, Terina, Koa, Essa, Azaiah, Riley, Mahanga and Hunter. Maunga – Jahzareo, Classic, Jaarell, Iona, Hazel, Koby, Anaiya, Winter, Miah, Riley, Rhyah, Manaia, Ocean, Iris, Finn, Dua, Daniel, Bella, Airlie, Holly and Reggie. Keep up the great work team!
Week 6 Cybersmart – using Explain Everything
Today Whaea Monika took us through a lesson using Explain Everything. We learnt to:
- Create a new project (blank canvas) * Rename our projects
- Delete old projects * Use the Camera, the Cropping tool and the Lasso tool to insert photos
- Use the drawing tools and the shape tools
Here are some examples of our mahi.
Week 5 Maunga Super Spellers
Congratulations to all these 100% spellers from last week. Well done to Classic, Daniel, Tiara-Leigh, Jackson, Hazel, Dua, Riley, Miah, Tessa, Momoka, Finn, Winter, Anaiya, Ocean, Airlie, Holly, Rhyah and Joshua. Keep up the great learning!!
