Natural Disasters Mapping Activity

Position and Orientation

We have started our learning about Position and Orientation. 

We are learning about compasses and grid references.

Little garden's love the arts!

After a suggestion by Mrs O we tried singing, dancing and playing the guitar to help our little gardens grow. 

It also helps that we are having a beautiful week of sunshine!


Any more suggestions whanau?

Little garden lift-off!

Thanks Felix for being a great plant waterer! We have sprouts! Cress and rocket have popped up already and we only planted them on Monday.

So far we have:
watered them
put them in the sun

Tomorrow we might try singing to them!

Do you have another suggestion that we could try?

Little Garden!

This week we planted our little gardens! Thanks so much New World and School HQ. Click here for photos!

We met up with our buddy classes (just to spy on their techniques...) to pot and plant our seeds. We noticed that the seeds were already in the seed mats. 

We learnt about how washing our hands after gardening is so important. We also learnt how to model what to do and then how to help our teina to successfully pot their seeds. 

Well done tuakana. They look great. Each of our 4 classes has a tray and we have 2 spare sets that we have put in Graeme's shed and in our breakout space. 

I wonder if we could donate them to another class? 

Who would you suggest Mamaku?

Our Mihi's term 3

Some of our Mihi's are 'a work in progress' but please leave us some encouragement! We are learning how to best 'self record' and we would love some feedback!

Olympic Broadcasts!

Some broadcasts are 'a work in progress' but please leave us some encouragement! We are learning how to best 'self record' and we would love some feedback!

Ko wai ia? Who is he/she?

We have been learning how to use the phrase 'Who is she/he? We know how to answer the question as well! Have a look! 

See if you can find the pattern!

Growth Mindset revisited...

We looked at what makes a growth mindset. 

We watched this video:

We have come up with more ideas (better than Miss Panther's ideas) to share with our Syndicate.

Do you have any more to add? Leave us a comment underneath!

Spot the Mamakuians...

Leave a comment with who you can spot! 

Check out who made the local paper!

Can you spot the familiar faces? 

Book week door prep!

   

Book week buddy reading!

West Coast Under 10's final!

Congrats Blaketown for winnning your final! 

Well done Kaleb S, William E, Morgan, Kaine, Kaleb W, Alex Cl, Oliver M, Franklin, Cohen! Legends! 

Also well done Larkin from Mamaku 1!

What a great team you had to get you to the final!

Have a look at the photos here!

Matariki

Matariki is the Māori name for a group of stars (also known as the Pleiades). 

It rises in mid-winter – late May or early June. 

For many Māori, it signals the start of a new year. Matariki literally means the 'eyes of god' (mata ariki) or 'little eyes' (mata riki).

Other countries have different names for Pleiades. Can you find out what they are?

We created a Matariki cloak with the help of our buddy classes. Here they are!