We are also learning how to say prayers (Lotu) in Samoan, Tongan, Hindi and Cook Island Māori! We ended our day today with Whaea Courtney's cool class sharing their closing Lotu with us, check out our photos!
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Room19, Room18 and Room5 working with TWA girls
We really enjoyed our afternoon today, learning 'E minaka ana' with Te Whānau Āwhina girls teaching Room 18, Room 19 and Room 5 this beautiful waiata ā ringa
We are also learning how to say prayers (Lotu) in Samoan, Tongan, Hindi and Cook Island Māori! We ended our day today with Whaea Courtney's cool class sharing their closing Lotu with us, check out our photos!
We are also learning how to say prayers (Lotu) in Samoan, Tongan, Hindi and Cook Island Māori! We ended our day today with Whaea Courtney's cool class sharing their closing Lotu with us, check out our photos!
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Delicious cakes
We have alot of fun in room 19. Today we made some yummy cakes while reading our stories with everyone! Check out our awesome photos!
Monday, 20 February 2017
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Making Poi Toa for Nga Kemu Maori Kaupapa T3
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| And we watched a very cool live play by these guys... |
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| We LOVED their dancing, singing, miming and just FUN approach to drama and the arts - they were AMAZING!! |
Term 3 and 4 ... Where has the year gone???
Kia Ora koutou ma,
Well what a busy time of year at Clendon Park Primary School!! I guess one of the best things about our class is their absolute enthusiasm for ALL of their learning activities... from learning about the Waharoa to making our own Poi Toa, Whai and Konui all the way to staying the night in the whare and having the BEST NIGHT EVER!!
Term 3 was Twilight Market time, Cross Country, Netball Season, Student teacher Sheree, Nga Kemu Maori our topic, Assessments and lots and lots of reading, writing and maths!!
Term 4 is full of Kapa Haka Nationals Roopu, Te Akau Tokatoka our topic, Athletics, Fiafia night, TWA teina Noho Marae, baking our rockyshore shapes, Prizegivings, Junior school items for Prizegiving, Mission Bay Beach Day out! Reports and Assessments!! as well as all that reading, writing and maths ano!
We are lucky enough to have Whaea Flo in our class now who helps enormously with our learning and fun in Ruma Tui, T4 2015.
Well what a busy time of year at Clendon Park Primary School!! I guess one of the best things about our class is their absolute enthusiasm for ALL of their learning activities... from learning about the Waharoa to making our own Poi Toa, Whai and Konui all the way to staying the night in the whare and having the BEST NIGHT EVER!!
Term 3 was Twilight Market time, Cross Country, Netball Season, Student teacher Sheree, Nga Kemu Maori our topic, Assessments and lots and lots of reading, writing and maths!!
Term 4 is full of Kapa Haka Nationals Roopu, Te Akau Tokatoka our topic, Athletics, Fiafia night, TWA teina Noho Marae, baking our rockyshore shapes, Prizegivings, Junior school items for Prizegiving, Mission Bay Beach Day out! Reports and Assessments!! as well as all that reading, writing and maths ano!
We are lucky enough to have Whaea Flo in our class now who helps enormously with our learning and fun in Ruma Tui, T4 2015.
Sunday, 2 August 2015
Marae Noho
We are so excited about our upcoming Marae Noho on Thursday this week!! FUN and games with Te Whanau Awhina teina!!
Saturday, 4 April 2015
Term 2 looks really exciting already!!!
Our Kaupapa for Term 2 this year is Myths and Legends.
With all the money our classroom made at the Twilight Market the kids, whanau and I have been discussing what we might like to do with our earnings.
We had a whole class discussion and recorded the kids ideas of where we might go;
get this...
I like the one in the left upper corner the best... "go to the Moon!!"
Our kids are awesome!
So we tallied up our notes and coins and added it all up. We then looked at our budget and decided that we had to let go of some of the more expensive destinations like 'the Gold Coast', 'the moon' and 'Disneyland'. We thought about our Kaupapa in Term 2 - Myths and Legends.
Our kids were very serious about it all and after much thinking and discussing they ended up choosing CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN in West Auckland.
We did more research and found a Myth that we could study, called:
"Whaitere the Enchanted Stingray"
a beautiful story that tells of an enchanted Stingray, Whaitere.
Whaitere is inconsolable when her parents unexpectedly leave her, so she journeys all the way to the underworld in search of them. Whaitere eventually finds her parents who show her the magical sights of their new home, the underworld. They take her to Crystal Caves, and explain that each sparkling crystal she can see embedded in the cave walls represent all the songs and languages of every creature in the sea.
We are lucky to be able to begin our Myths and Legends topic with such a neat trip!
- To all the parents that helped and supported us at the Night Market, nga mihi nui, this was your idea and your hard work and we are immensely lucky to have such cool, dedicated whanau.
Special mentions;
Whaea Elizabeth - LeOne's Mum
Whaea Collett - Diezel's Mum
Whaea Teneal - Khian's Mum
Whaea Josie - Naomi's Mum
Whaea Shandeen - Anahera's Mum
Whaea Oronsay,
Matua Darryn
Tayric's Koro
for their generous contributions
Matua Desmond for organising it all
Matua Dudley for fully supporting us and
Mrs Dawson for allowing these cool things to happen
and to all the other whanau that stepped up on the day offering help and support.
Our haerenga for Week 1 of Term 2,
will be to Crystal Mountain to find our own sparkling Crystals just like Whaitere.
Best Whanau EVER!
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