Favourite songs

Happy - Pharrell Williams

Aotearoa - Stan Walker

Justin Timberlake - Sunshine in my Pocket

Maisey Rika - Tangaroa Whakamautai

Wash Your Face in Orange Juice

National Anthem - Sign Language

Baby Shark

Karakia

Here are the karakia we use in the classroom.

Karakia Timatanga - to start the day

Mā te whakapono
Mā te tumanako
Mā te titiro
Mā te whakarongo
Mā te mahitahi
Mā te manawanui
Mā te aroha
Ko tae e au

By believing and trusting

By having faith and hope

By looking and searching

By working and striving together

By patience and perseverance

By doing this with love and compassion

We can achieve success

Karakia Mutunga - to end the day

E te Papatūānuku, 

Kua mutu tātou i te mahi tahi o te rā. 

Kia tau tō rangimārie ki a mātou. 

Acknowledging the forces of nature 

(Mother Earth),

We have come to the end of our collaborative work for the day. 

May peace be with us all. 

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Learning at home - ideas

The following was on our Facebook page, I've taken the ideas more appropriate for young learners.

• Graph the types of birds that you see outside your house or through the window. Tips for Identifying birds 

• Build a hut out of blankets and chairs. Camp in it all day, then tell your family a story about your hut over dinner.

• Stay up late and stargaze. When you don’t have to go to school in the morning, it can be okay to stay up late once in a while. Stretch out and watch the stars. 

•  Draw a map of your home and neighbourhood - we did this at school, so children have had some experience with this.

• Sit silently for 15 minutes while you listen to every sound you hear. Important to develop children's listening skills.

• Learn to tie shoelaces!

• Draw and tell - draw a picture, tell a story about your picture, parents can write this story on the picture, then you can read it together.

• Think, notice and wonder - Look out of the window or in your driveway or garden. Observe carefully, what do you notice? What do you think? What do you wonder?

Favourite Stories

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Papa Please get me the Moon

Handa's Surprise

Ready to Read Classics

At the Marae

Room on the Broom

The Mixed-Up Chameleon

The Very Quiet Cricket

The Gruffalo

Karakia timatanga

Karakia Kai

Karakia Mutunga (end of day)

Maths in the classroom

With swimming finishing, we have more time now to explore maths in the classroom.
Playing with maths equipment supports mathematical knowledge.
In these photos children are sorting, grouping, measuring, playing with shapes, learning about position and rotation, and patterning.

Shared Writing

Shared writing is writing about shared experiences.
Last week we went for a walk to the kitchen garden and we saw 2 dead rats.  The children were very interested in this!
The process for shared writing is together we think of a story/sentence to write.  Then we think of the initial sound of each word - we find it on our alphabet chart, and I write it.  Some children can write on their own, others copy me.  
The class really enjoy this time and are very proud of their writing efforts. 

We saw two dead rats.
We could hear the beginning and end sounds for rats! 

Karakia timatanga (start of the day)