You Are My Sunshine

 Judgement! What does it mean? 

Watch this video Room 1 and Room 3 made and think about it for yourself!

Leilani's Backward Counting

 In our Maths lessons this week, we are learning to count forwards and backwards to 10 and 20.

Here is how Leilani has shown her great practice of counting backwards from 10 by drawing a rocket ship blasting off counting down, and a caterpillar with 10 on its head going back to its tail to 0.

Kyrie's Ako at Home

Kyrie has been very busy learning during this week. He has been following his lessons online and completing some Reading, Writing and Maths work. Here are Kyrie's work. Ka pai, Kyrie for working hard! These are the sight words Kyrie learnt from the book I Can Read.

In our Maths lessons, we learnt about 2D shapes and decided to look for those shapes around us. Here are the objects in which Kyrie saw different shapes.

Then Kyrie practised drawing these shapes and created a castle out of shapes.

Kyrie's Sight Words Practice

Here is Kyrie's post about his reading. "Today me and my māmā read my book called I can Read. I learnt how to read and write the words I, can and to. I used these words to create my own sentence." Kyrie

I Can Read My Story

Kyrie is reading the story he has written.

First ipad session with Mrs Grant

Today we had our very first ipad session with Mrs Grant.
The children were all very excited. Mrs Grant came to Room 1 this morning. She showed us a movie about how to care for our ipads. This is called Manaiakalani Kawa of Care. We learnt to take turn and wait for our teacher to give our ipads to us. Then we learnt how to hug hold and carry our ipad to the table where we would sit and work with it.

In our first session we learnt the name of two apps on our ipad: Camera and Photos.













Here are some photos we took and learnt how to share it on Apple TV with the whole class.

Leilani's Ako Badge

Thank you Leilani for showing great Ako over the Lockdown period and since coming back to school. You explained it so well. That is right. When you show the school values so well and you end up getting 3 certificates of the same school value, you deserve to get a badge of that value.
CONGRATULATIONS  on gaining your Ako Value.
Ka pai !

Samoan Colours

This week, we have been celebrating the Samoan Language Week.
Here is a movie children in Room 1 made saying their colours in Samoan language.

Samoa Flags and Siapo

We learnt what Samoa Flag looks like and we made our own Samoa flag. We also learnt about Samoa's special artwork, Siapo.
Look at our beautiful Siapo and Samoa Flags we made.

AJ's story about flying to Samoa

Young children start telling their stories by drawing pictures and talking about it.
Here AJ tells us his story through his detailed and expressive pictures.  It is great to see how AJ is connecting our learning about Samoan language and culture during Samoan Language Week to his own experience of going to Samoa with his family.
He obviously has got a very close relationship with his nana.

AJ, It is great to see how your English language is improving. However, more important than that is the fact that you keep using your own beautiful Samoan language. You have even been a fantastic teacher to me and your friends during this week teaching us Samoan alphabet, numbers, colours and greetings.Malo lava, AJ! 

Where is Leilani?

The book we read in our online class today was called 'Where is Sam?' and the sight word we learnt to read and write from this book was 'Here'.

Leilani, you made your own book using the same pattern this afternoon but I love your version of the book, "Where is Leilani?" much better.
I can see how hard you have tried to write all the sentences in your book using the same sentence pattern of saying "Here is Leilani's ... ." and the question "Where is Leilani?" 
What a fantastic and fluent reading! Great Ako, Leilani. Ka pai.
Your lovely mum, Tara, has been a fantastic teacher at home supporting you with your learning. She is a STAR, isn't she?




Here is the reading lesson from today's class for the book "Where is Sam?"

Mother's Day Card

Here is Leilani's card she made for her lovely mum for Mother's Day on Sunday.
She followed the instructional video on her Explain Everything Writing lesson for today and created this beautiful card and wrote her message inside.

Thanks Leilani for letting me take a photo of you with your card through our Hangout online lesson as we wanted to keep it quiet from mum so she would be surprised on Sunday.

I am very proud of you showing your school value of Manaakitanga to your mum and making her happy.
Ka pai.

Leilani's Maths Problem Solving

It has been a few days now that we have been learning to add up numbers by tally marking.

This was today's Maths problem.

Here is how Leilani used her Tally Marking knowledge to solve the above problem. She showed two groups of 5 using tally marks and another group of 3 and counted them together: 5 + 5 + 3 = 13
Ka pai, Leilani. That was a quick way of counting two groups of 5 and then adding another 3. 

Ana's Nature Scavenger Hunt

Today, in our Writing lesson, we were supposed to go on a Nature Scavenger Hunt. We had a list of living and non-living things to use as a guide. We needed to go outside, look for any of these in the nature, draw a picture of them, write their name down and read them out to someone at home. 

                          

This is the Nature Scavenger Hunt list from our Writing lesson.

This is Ana's Nature Scavenger Hunt picture collage and her drawing and writing in her book. Well done, Ana. This is fantastic. I am glad that you enjoyed your scavenger hunt with your lovely mum and little sister, Leina as I heard in our second hangout session today. You told me that you could find nearly everything on the list except the butterfly, water and fern.

Can you tell what each picture is showing?

My Bird Feeder

Kia ora Leilani, 
What an enthusiastic and confident learner you are. You have been joining in our online classes nearly every day. You pay great attention and try your best. This week we have been learning about creatures in our natural environment like insects and birds. We have been learning how to care for them. You showed a wooden bird house you already had at home. We decided to make a bird feeder. In our Inquiry lesson yesterday, we learnt how to make a bird feeder out of juice or milk carton and water or milk bottle. I showed you my bird feeder.

 Mrs Jalili's bird feeder

Today, you not only made your own bird feeder explaining the process so well but also completed your writing task. You even reminded us that we need to always start our sentence with a Capital or Uppercase letter, and put a Full Stop at the end of our sentence. 

You have shown a great example of how Manaiakalani pedagogy of "Learn", "Create", "Share" puts you at the very centre of your own learning.  I am very proud of you. Keep up your great learning. Ka pai.

Leilani's Birthday Message

Leilani, this is a Birthday message you wrote to your dad for his birthday. What a great gift to dad to see your neat writing with all the love hearts showing your Manaakitanga to him.

I learnt a new Maori word from you, Leilani. That is "heke" in Maori for "egg". It must have been a very special birthday breakfast for your dad!

Leilani's writing on first day of Home Learning

It was our first day of online schooling, learning from home.

Leilani, thank you so much for joining us on our class hangout meet, patiently listening to your teacher, showing passion and interest in learning from home. It was fantastic; and more rewarding was to see your lovely writing and reading it to me at our second hangout meet. Ka pai, Leilani. 👏
Thanks for sharing your learning today. Keep up the great work you are doing. 😊

Leilani's Writing At Home during Lockdown School Holiday

Leilani's writing at home:

Leilani has been busy learning at home during her school holidays. She has used her ABC Word Card to write sentences.  This is great, Leilani. Ka pai! Keep up your great learning at home.

Half Fraction - Equal Sharing

We have been learning about 1/2 and 1/4 fractions last week and this week.  We have learnt that a fraction is one equal part of a whole. Mrs Jalili has been cutting our fruits like apples and kiwifruits in halves and in quarters. It is much easier to eat them when they are cut into smaller pieces, and in this way everybody gets a fair share of all the fruits.

Today we looked at some shapes.  Mrs Jalili wanted to cut each whole shape into two halves by drawing a line. We helped by guiding her how far to move her ruler over the shape so that the line would sit right in the middle of the shape or how far to move one side over the other side to fold the shape exactly in half. Every whole shape turned into two equal halves. So each part became one half (1/2) of that shape.

Then we learnt how to do equal sharing on each half by counting the counters one at a time placing one on each half. We each took turn sharing different numbers of counters equally on each half of the circle shape. This was fun!

Waiaua equally shared 6 pieces of salami on two halves of pizza. 

Kyrie equally shared 8 pieces of salami on two halves of pizza. 

Leilani Explaining Her Understanding of Equal Sharing

How to wash hands properly!

We have been learning about a virus that has been making people very sick. 
We are on a mission to stop this coronavirus. We know that we can all do it by washing our hands properly and not touching our face with unwashed hands. You can see all the videos we have watched to help us learn more in our class site, Term 1 Inquiry.

Here is how we need to wash our hands.

Living Things and Non-Living Things

What do you know about Living Things and Non-Living Things?

What kind of characteristics do Living Things have?

Watch our movie and we all tell you all about it.

Sea Creatures Hands on Experience

We have been learning about Sea Creatures in the last couple of weeks. Today we experienced touching and feeling a real fish and some octopuses that were not living anymore. Miss Adele from Room 12 kindly brought these to school for her students and shared them with us too. Some of us were a bit hesitant to touch them at first but after watching couple of friends doing so, we all had fun touching the big fish, and picking up an octopus and looking at its body parts. We counted their 8 arms. They had lots of suckers along each arm.

Waiau, Dayne and AJ exploring the octopuses!

Sofya holding an octopus!

AJ, Leilani and Kahlani feeling the fish!

School Values at Tamaki Primary School

We have been learning about the 5 School Values we have at Tamaki Primary school. They are:

Ako; Teaching and Learning

Manaakitanga; Kindness

Mana Tangata; Respect

Kaitiakitanga; Gaurdianship, Looking after environment and people

Whanaungatanga; Positive Relationships

Today, we had a buddy time to share our learning with our buddy class, Room 8. In groups, we talked about what the school values are, how to show the school values, and gave examples of showing school values in our behaviour.

With our Buddy Class, Room 8 we joined in one of the 5 groups. In each group we talked about what we LEARNT about our School Values, we CREATED a poster for each School Value, and then videoed our ideas to make a movie to be SHARED at the school assembly.

Here is our movie.