Wow what a huge group of clever spellers we have this week! Congratulations to Kayson, Lachlan, Emmett, Ngawini, Evelyn, Iris, Mia, Riley, Winter, Tessa, Louis, Te Ata, Airlie, Bella, Ryder, Jaxton, Daniel, Callum, Hazel, Iona, Holly, Scott and Onyx. Ka rawe koutou!
Maunga Iti and Moana worked together to create a movie about the Kōkako bird.
We had been learning about the extinct Huia bird and wanted to shine a light on another native New Zealand bird at risk of extinction, helping to raise awareness and understanding.
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Here are a few quick movies to help us remember the main places we visited during our Auckland Trip 2025.
We loved traveling by bus to Auckland and had a great time away together.
Congratulations to Miah, Zayeleiah, Rhyah and Aria who got all their spelling words right this week!
Congratulations to all the 100% spellers from Friday, Week 7. This week they were Octavia, Riley, Tessa, Winter, Finn, Callum, Daniel, Jaxton, Airlie, Bella, Ocean, Scott, Ryder, Jahzareo, Hazel, Iona, Holly, Sharlet, Ngawini and Louis. Tino pai mahi koutou!
Here is a movie students in Team Maunga created. A group of students took charge and created a story board of what they wanted the movie to be about. They then used stop motion to create the main scenes for this movie. With support they then used Greenscreen and many students from within our Maunga space to record things that made their whanau Taonga to them. Here is our movie.
Here is a movie Team Maunga create. It uses a combination of Te Reo and english, to talk about creatures that are native to NZ and that are Taonga. We used Chatterpix to make our pictures of our choosen creatures come to life and to share our facts. We have been learning about lots of animals that are Taonga to NZ as part of our lead up to our Auckland trip and also as part of us wanting to be Kaitiaki to our forests.
We hope you enjoy it.
This Friday we had lots of fun creating Dinosaurs.
We have been doing lots of writing about these during the week and many of us used our creations with chatterpix to share the stories we had written.
We hope you enjoy.
Airlie
Bella
Daniel
Jaarell
Mia
Jahzareo
Onyx
Winter
Here are some examples of Segmenting and Blending that this reading group have completed this week. This is a great way to practice sounding out words and putting them back together.
Evelyn
Mia
Scott
Here is the 3rd explain everything in this sequence. We have been learning about he different mammals that will be at the zoo when we are there. We are getting really good at working together, taking pictures, cutting them out and adding audio to our Mahi. Here are some of the Explain Everythings we created.
Daniel & Millie
Holly & Onyx
Koby & Rome
Bella & Callum
Evelyn & Sharlet
Jackson & Mia
Kaea & Nathanel
Louis & Jaarell