Cook Island Language Week

Kia Orana Whanau,

Here are some photos of our great Cook Island Language Week. 

Metaki to all the whanau for contributing to our shared lunch.

Have a great week all!

Whetu and Nick show!

The Whetu and Nick show was fabulous! We enjoyed the bus ride because we were singing our hearts out! We were lucky enough to sit so close to the stage. The show surprised us as with Te Reo and English speaking. We understood some of the words they were saying like whanau. 

We are so thankful for the opportunity we got to attend this show. 

Week 2

Maths

Writing like a mathematician. In order to write like a mathematician you need to have a '+' and '='in the equation not just the numbers. We get our numbers from rolling the dice. It is so much fun rolling the dice and we are getting better at adding two numbers together.

Writing

We write about our FMS experience. This writing was done independently.  Can you see we are getting better at sounding out our words and using the words we know in a sentence? 

Miss Zinck was very proud of our work and we hope you are too!

FMS

We went over balancing again and did some hopping which is helping us with our balancing.

The lesson ended with walking with bean bags on our heads. It was very exciting and thrilling walking fast and trying to balance. 

Thanks for reading our blog! We hope you had a great week. 

We are looking forward to Cook Island Language Week and our trip next week! 

FMS and Dance!

Welcome back to Term 3 Whanau!

We have started off this week with exciting FMS. At FMS the skill we learn't and practiced was BALANCING. Seems simple to some but it was actually quite tricky. 

How we learn't the skill was through Sponge bob square pants! Who would of thought! When we heard Sponge bob we had to stand by ourselves and freeze on one leg, when we heard Patrick we needed to find a buddy, freeze and balance on one leg holding each other. 

Here is us doing some dance! First things first we need to warm up our bodies. We are exploring the different stretches for different parts of our bodies.  Feel free to ask us at home to show you some stretches like- Tip- toe, Up- down, reach for the sky and reach for your feet!

The week has gone by so fast! We hope you had a great week. 

Free Writing

Today we got the chance to do some free writing... Woohoo it is writing that we choose!!

First we thought about things we might want to write then we shared with a partner. Here is where ideas started following and imaginations began to explore. We then got a whiteboard which was fun because we normally do writing in our books. 

We are learning how to write a sentence, staring with a capital letter and ending it with a full stop. Check them out!

Chalk out on the Courts

As a class we went outdoors whilst the sun was shinning and we wrote our numbers. Some of us are working on writing our numbers the correct way.  Aroha 4 enjoyed going outdoors and doing this activity as it was something different for us!

Check out our pictures!