Last week it was International Language Week. For our assembly, we created a video of our teachers who speak another language. We asked them to say something and the students needed to guess the language and what the teacher was saying.
Watch our video and see if you can guess the language and what is being said. Post your guess in the comments and we will let you know if you were correct 🙂
Last Thursday we said goodbye to our friend Jaxsyn. It was an emotional day as we performed our favourite waiata and did the haka. We hope he makes good friends at his new school and will visit us later in the year.
How do you say goodbye to a special friend?
Have you had a haka done for you before?
How did you feel?
Please share your comments with us.
We learnt about internet permanence with Mrs Tofa today. As a class, we read What is internet permanence? which is a document that teaches us about what internet permanence is.
We then brainstormed our understanding as a class. Here are our thoughts about what internet permanence is:
We then used some slogans provided by Mrs Tofa to create posters promoting being cybersmart and thinking about internet permanence.
Here is Antonia’s poster
Last week the year 5 & 6 Team Kererū learners had their first game of Netball. It was great to have so many of our whanaū come and support us. We have been training over the last two weeks at 7:30 in the morning with coach Kodi. Our training paid off and we won 8 – 2.
We also started training for the upcoming league tournament. Coach Kevin and Shane came in and we had a game of touch.
These games are a great way for us to show our Glen Taylor School Values, F.I.R.E (Fun, Integrity, Respect & Excellence). We are also learning sportsmanship, participation, and collaboration.
What sports are your classes playing?
Do you have any tips on the types of drills we can do for netball and league? If so please share in the comments.
Last Friday Team Kererū decided to celebrate our finished inquiry about World War and the ANZAC soldiers with an afternoon of sharing. With the help of Whaea Nicki, we set up the school hall got into groups, participated in quizzes, had a mini feast, and shared our writing. We started our feast standing in silence and listening to the ‘Last Post’ as we gave thanks to the soldiers that fought and those that had sacrificed their lives. Our feast consisted of some of the foods that the soldiers ate during the war. We had ANZAC cookies (which we learned how to make in maths), bread with jam, and cups of tea – which many of us had never tried before. After we ate, we showed confidence in standing in front of our team and reading the stories we had written about the war. Some of us shared information we had learned and some of us shared letters we had written as though we were the soldiers in the war. It was quite an emotional afternoon thinking about what it would have been like to be in the war, being scared that you may never return to your family but also proud because you were fighting for your country.
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. The Awesome Team that helped make our kai for our special sharing session.
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We would love to hear what other students learned about the War and what interesting facts you may have learned too.
Please share in the comments below.
As part of our ANZAC learning we got to make ANZAC biscuits in maths! Who knew baking was considered maths? We are learning about different forms of measurement, using cups, grams, tablespoons, and teaspoons. Because there are 25 of us in our maths group we had to double our mixture, so we had to do lots of working out..
Did you know that ANZAC biscuits were sent to soldiers from their wives during the war? They lasted a long time and tasted delicious. We followed the recipe from Twinkl but there are lots of different variations. We would like to make them again but with chocolate chips…YUM!
Above are the ingredients we used, Rolled oats, Coconut, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda, and hot water. Once you roll them into balls you squish them down with a fork but not too hard. We then baked them for about 15 – 20 minutes, they smelled so delicious when they were cooking, and became golden and crunchy, mmmmm. They were so good that even Alan the dog wanted to try one. Sorry Alan, not this time!
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Do you like ANZAC biscuits? Have you made your own before? Do you have any variations to the recipe? We would love to hear. Please comment below. We look forward to your responses
Today with the guidance of Mr Goodwin we visited the two Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu class blogs that we will be reading, and commenting on for the remainder of the year.
The first school blog we looked at was Room 9 from Glen Innes School. We liked the Easter weekend story on Room 9’s Blog, It was really funny.
Next we visited Room 15 from Levin North School.
We really liked the book chain idea that Room 15 shared. Many of the books that they reviewed were some of our favourites too. It has inspired us to create our own. We were curious as to where Levin was as many of us had never heard of Levin before so we used Google maps to see how far away it was. We learned that it is 6 hours and 38 minutes away from our school.
We are hoping that maybe we can organise a Google Meet with the classes we are blogging with so we can see the learners who are on their class blogs, and maybe ask them some questions to get to know them better.
We are looking forward to reading more posts on Room 9 and Room 15 blogs, and having them comment on our own classroom adventures that we share on our blog too.
This week Team Kererū had their first assembly for the year. The learners decided on what they would like to perform and showcase for our audience. After participating in the powhiri last week, they suggested welcoming our audience into the hall with a haka powhiri before performing one of their favourite waiata. Click on the link below to watch is a sneak peek of their practice before Friday’s assembly.
If you were unable to make our assembly, you can view it on Glen Taylor’s Facebook page.
We would love to have our whanaū to share their thoughts on our performance. Please leave your comments for us in the comment box below. Perhaps you could share your favourite waita with us, and maybe we can learn it, and perform it at our next assembly.
Enjoy 🙂
Kia ora Whanaū.
On Thursday the 14th March Glen Taylor School had a powhiri. First, we welcomed the Maruhiri (visitors) with a Karanga (welcome call). The tangata whenua did a haka powhiri. After the haka powhiri, we heard the whaikõrero. Then we sang our school waiata. Finally we we went back to class and had kai.
Ms Karl’s literacy group wanted to know…
Some of us felt nervous and scared at first but then we felt proud and excited to have been a part of it.
Share your feelings about the powhiri in the comments below. We look forward to reading about your experience.
Take a look at some of the photos from our day immersed in the Rūnā Education Program. We had a great time learning, exploring, investigating, wondering, questioning, and building our knowledge about the importance of sustainability in our ocean.
Write your responses in the comments.
If you are from outside of Team Kererū and Glen Taylor School please feel free to share your ideas on the importance of sustainability and how we can take care of our ocean.
We look forward to reading your comments.