Our Incredible Te Reo Māori

This term in Te Ngahere we have been  learning how to read in Te Reo Māori. We are learning to use the correct pronunciation of Te Reo Māori by reading a  pukapuka (book) in Te Reo Māori called Ngā Mahi Pārekareka Kei Te Marae (Fun At The Marae ). After we learn how to read it by ourselves without any help we go and read it to the younger tamariki (children). We will also read the english version after the Te Reo Māori version.  We are doing this so we can learn more Te Reo Māori and learn how to speak Te Reo Māori. Do you know any Te Reo Māori words? Here is a LINK and photo of the title to the pukapuka (book).

T Shaped Empathy

At the start of the week we have been doing T shaped Empathy. We had been learning about empathy. Empathy means being nice to other people and being kind and helping people. Say like someone was being mean to your friend and you went to stand up for them and help them. If you don’t know what we do in T shaped, it’s when you have a variety of books to read, and we have to answer questions about the story We have to do the same thing for each of the books. We were in our reading groups, my group is Breeze, Jade.O and Mark.O. 

Recycle

Hi my name is Yazmin I’m a Year Five from Paihia School, Te Maunga. For the past few weeks we have been doing stuff about Refuse, Reuse, Recycle, Reduce. It was fun and I learnt a lot. We had to make a sign (different from the real one) and we had to choose one of these things Refuse, Reuse, Recycle, Reduce, I chose Reuse  and you will be able to see the sign that I made. Recycling is when you recycle something plastic and people turn it into something else. Reusing is when something is plastic and you can make it into something else.

Makerspace - Electricity

Hi my name is Yazmin I’m a year 5 in Te Maunga from Paihia School. In the first block of school we did a makerspace.  The makerspace was about electricity. We done all sorts of experiments and nearly all of them worked. We were in groups I was with Ayanda, Brisa, Fern, Akira, Ricky - May and Shivarm. We done an active and that was with a lemon, 10sens, nails, LED and alligator clips.

First we got the lemon and cut a little line on every one of the lemon (there were 4 lemons) and we put the ten sent coin in the lemon. The next step was to put a nail right in line of the coin and stuck it in so they didn’t touch. After that we put an alligator clip on each of those coins that we just put in the lemon. The second to last step was to join the alligator clips with the nails and it had to be in a circle. The last step was to connect the LED to two of those clips and then it should make the LED (light bulb) turn on.

Makerspace

Hi, my name is Yazmin and I’m a year 5 at Paihia School. Last Friday, in Te Maunga we done a makerspace about plants, we were in groups of five I was with Fern, Akira, Ayanda and Brisa. We had a yellow box that had items that are from our garden we had to use 1, 2, 3, 4 or all of them. We used two and it was parsley and carrots. We made a salad and it was really good. We all worked together as a team and we enjoyed it. We also used with parsley, pears, almonds, grapes, some lemon juice for extra flavour, lettuce, cucumber, carrots, strawberries and tomatoes. First we layed newspaper down and put compost on top. Next we planted the seedling and water the whole garden. Then we waited till spring (we planted them on matariki). They grew and grew until they were ready and then we ate them and used them for the makerspace. Every plant needs 5 things and that is water, air ,light, warmth and nutrients. 

 Yazmin

Weather Around the World

This term we have done T - Shaped Literacy. I’m doing mine about weather. We did heaps of activities. I chose Weather Around the World. In Weather Around the World we had to choose four different countries and we had to write about the weather in the seasons. The countries I chose were the Amazon Rainforest, India, Brazil and Alaska just so you know. We could either use Powtoon or Google Slides (I chose Google Slides)

Dr Seuss

we were writing about Dr Seuss.

Rebecca Brothers

I.A.L.T. write about someone before they come and talk to us.