Christmas 2021

 We had a lot of fun making Reindeer Cookies and Christmas decorations this week.

We used arrowroot biscuits, nutella, M&Ms and pretzels to make our delicious reindeer cookies. It was a lovely treat!

Our Christmas decorations had a 'Xmas Tree' theme. We made a finger print xmas tree card, a glittery xmas tree with a candy cane and then a xmas tree ornament for our trees. What a great way to end the year.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!

Poetry

WALT respond to different types of poems. We are going to use different poems to help us practice our reading strategies.

Words rhyme when the end of a word sounds the same like;

flea sea

drain grain

Alliteration is when the sounds at the beginning of the words sound the same;

bees buzzing

spiders spin silk

Music with Matua Jade

WALT explore different musical instruments and we are learning to give different types of music a go.

Yesterday we did music we had a keyboard and a electricity guitar a drum and a box of music instruments and me and some of my friends made a band.

ELECTRICITY

Simple Circuits

We are learning about electricity and how to build a simple circuit.

2 weeks we learned how to build a simple Circuit This is how we made the simple Circuit

You will need:

• playdoh

• battery pack

• wires

• LED (light emitting diode)

Water - An Amazing Substance

We are using water to help us understand different scientific concepts.

Last Friday we did Science with Te Tinana With water the first one was evaporation and put the water on the ground and the sun evaporate it and tuned in to gas. We did one more and we did a plastic cup and water you put water in cup and a lid you put the plastic lid on it and let go and shake it and the water would not came out when a little air gets in the lid will fall off.

Asttle Writing - The boy who survived the haunted house

Teacher Note - ‘UNASSISTED’ ASTTLE WRITING The children write for a total of 40 minutes. Within that timeframe they have to plan their writing (a brainstorm) write, edit and re-craft their work. They are not allowed to use dictionaries or word cards. The students completed their writing on paper but have typed it out for their blogs.

Te Reo- Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

Last term we had a student teacher named Whaea Seroya and we were learning a kupu o te ra which is a word of the day and these are some of them:

• Arai mata-face mask
• Papa takaro-playground
• Karit-carrot
• Pahi-bus
• Poro-ball
• Whira-field

We learned to play whare whare kemu is a game there was 10 lines of fruit-hua rakau and Whaea Seroya called out fruit (hua rākau) in Maori. We made wheku masks and a pukapuka (book). We chose a fruit (hua rakau) or a vegetable (hua whenua) to write about. In it I wrote Ko wai ahau? Ko karoti ahau, No wai au? Ko hua rākau au. We learnt all about Te Wiki Te Reo Maori which is Maori language week.