'I use my manners everyday to live my life the kiwican way!'
Monday, November 22, 2021
Lunch time rocks!
Today's chicken burgers for lunch were almost as popular as Friday's pizzas! School lunches are awesome 🙂
Tuesday music, library and te reo
Tuesday we have music with Matua Jade! We also have library and te reo. Make sure you bring back any library books you have at home tomorrow whanau!
Monday, November 15, 2021
Swimming
The water is getting warmer, and with our swimming always after lunch this term, even warmer still. Don't forget your togs, towel AND Deming cap every school day!
Duck feeding
Today we started to learn how to care for our school ducks. We got to feed and count the ducks today.
Friday, October 22, 2021
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Shotput
So great to be back at school yesterday, and an extra added bonus to be able to spend some time with Whaea Gina in the sunshine learning about shotput pushing.
Friday, September 17, 2021
Bouncy eggs
Did you see our bouncy eggs? They were left in our jars of vinegar for the entire lockdown period. We had some fantastic discussion around why they were so big before we bounced them on the bench.
Whare pukapuka
Don't forget to bring your library books on Tuesdays - tamariki are able to borrow 2 books each week from our whare pukapuka if they remember to bring back the previously borrowed pukapuka
Kapahaka
It was great to get back into kapahaka this week. The tamariki are making great progress with their short haka and waiatas too.
Ukelele
Ukepe with Matua Tupps is great fun and a great way to engage both sides of our learning brains.
Working with clay
This week we had a go at making a traditional Maori anchor out of clay. It was great learning how to manipulate and work the clay, building the muscles in our hands and wrists too.
Shared chapter books
We have started reading shared chapter books in class. This is fantastic learning for our tamariki, helping us to hold stories in our head over multiple lessons and days, making predictions about stories and talking about authors intentions over longer stories.
We really enjoyed reading the enormous crocodile, and have already started George's marvelous medicine!
The wiki o te reo maori
This week we have been embedding lots of our te two into our daily interactions - but we also learnt a new game!
Tokuhia ngā tangata? Toku rua! Toku rima! Toku waru!
Ask your tamariki about this game in your whare 🙂
Monday, September 13, 2021
Back to school - week 8!
As we start back to our first full week of learning since we went into lockdown during week 4 the tamariki are having a blast with a mix of old and new games in class, welcoming new members to our Rimu Whanau, and getting back into familiar routines. Today we got to see our wonderful kiwican instructors again to continue learning about relisience. Tomorrow we will have kapa haka, library, te reo, ukelele and some experiments to explore our sense of hearing.
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Reading to an audience
Scout and Lilly were invited to read their journals to Kauri class today. They did an excellent job using strong confident voices.
Karaoke time
Our lesson with Matua Tupps today was karaoke singing. It was good fun and the tamariki showed great resilience and confidence getting up to sing into the microphones!
Goodbye Millie
We wish Millie the best on her new adventure yesterday. We know she is going to have the most amazing time at her new school, and can't wait for her to come say hello and tell us all about it when she can!
Buddy reading
It's still so great being able to read to and with our buddy's twice a week. It's wonderful watching the confidence grow of both junior and senior students as the year progresses.
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Library day
Don't forget our library day is still Tuesday this term. Bring in your library books to change them for new stories to read at home.
PAL fitness
It was great fun getting out to do PAL fitness with senior students today playing a range of team building games to get our blood pumping for the day.
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
NED mindset mission
The students participated in the NED mindset mission this morning filled with yoyo's and lessons about having a positive growth mindset when approaching challenges. It was so much fun!
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
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