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.

Manaakitanga

   

We were learning about one of our school values 'Manaakitanga'.  Our main focus was to think about other people not just ourselves and including others.

We found it easy to show Manaakitanga.

We found it hard to think about others instead of ourselves during our breaks.

We really enjoyed being nice to other people.

Next time we need to aware of other peoples feelings all of the time not just sometimes.

Room 7 Smart Footprint: Public vs Private Info

We are learning about keeping our private information offline. We learned what is private information and what is public information. Private information is information you shouldn't share. Public information is things you can share on the internet. 

Some examples of Private information are:

• your address
• your birth date
• phone number
• email address 
• full name
• places or locations you visit regularly
• licence plate 
• taking photos in front of houses or cars

Some examples of Public information are:

• your first name
• your age
• city and country you live in
• friends first names
• favourite food
• interests and activities
• pets names

The easiest part of the activity was knowing what was ok to share.

Matariki