Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori

This week is Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. In room 7 we have been very busy learning waiata, how to greet people, having competitions, learning place names and how to pronounce words properly, creating slides, dancing, learning the māori alphabet and much more... 

We really enjoyed competing against each other in a waiata competition and getting prizes.

What did you do for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori?

Room 7 Quick Writes

We were learning about quick writes.  We have been practising how to write non-stop for 10mins using descriptive language.

We found it easy to think of a crazy invention and talk non-stop for 10mins!!

We found it hard to write for 10 minutes non-stop.

We really enjoyed designing and creating our slides.

Next time we need to try and make our inventions reality.

Mapere Planting Trip

On Tuesday 1st September rooms 7, 11 and 5 went on a planting trip to the beach at a place called Mapere. 

We planted spinifex to help the sand dunes so they wouldn’t disappear as the sea levels are rising and Ahipara is losing its large amounts of land.  Planting spinifex won't stop the erosion but it will help to slow the effects of erosion down. 

After all our hard work we had a sausage sizzle and lunch before heading back to school.

We planted 750 spinifex and a number of harakeke, a top effort!

An enjoyable day was had by all and getting sand blasted was certainly worth it.