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.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2019 - WITS

Earlier this year, we learnt about self-help skills.  We learnt how to look after our body as well as our emotions.  We learnt to use 4 specific strategies to help us when things are not working out for us.
That is WITS: Walk away, Ignore, Talk it out, Seek help!
Sit down, relax and listen to our WITS song we learnt about in Room 1.

Big 4

We have been learning about another PB4L lesson this week.
We have learnt that PB4L means Positive Behaviour for Learning.
In Room 1, this week we learnt about the Big 4 in our corridors.  By doing the Big 4, we show respect to the learners in other classrooms, which is our school value Manaakitanaga.

Here is the Big 4 movie we made to show you what it means.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2018 - The Ants Go Marching!

The lovely students in Room 1 at Tamaki Primary enjoy learning through play and fun games.  This movie is about one of the ways we have been learning counting our numbers from 1 to 10. 

We needed to make our own ant hats for marching as ants in the movie.  Filming each section marching in different numbers was not that easy in the wind as the ant hats kept getting blown away but it was lots of fun trying to catch them and secure them back on the head.  We shared both frustrations and laughter.  Everyone in Room 1 had a great input especially the little one.  We thought it was fair for a different student to be the flag-bearer or drummer leading the ants marching along.
We kept practising and singing so much that the tune was still stuck in our head for days after the filming was done.

We had fun counting 1to 10, each time repeating the song and adding one more.  Hope you also enjoy using anything around in your environment to count your numbers. 

Come and march along with us as we count 1-10

TPS_Jalili_Marching from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.