Decorating Our Makariki Poem - 

Rather than colouring our poem of the week, we chose to use technology to complete the same task!

We used google draw to paste in the poem, then search for pictures about Matariki and stars.

We had to work in pairs with a senior buddy. 

We could change the background colour, font for the writing and move the pictures into position. 

We hope you like the ones that are shared!


Billie and Alyia's click here






Matariki poem



Matariki Poem design by Tyson and Grayson  Click to see their design



Click here to see Sarah and Shayla's



Elie and Poppy's one is here -  Click this link for Elie and Poppy

Howick Historic Village

 

Is that a light saber....oh no just an old school sunbeam!!!!

 

Parlour Games  - Fun for the whole community. Life before TV and iPads!

Toys from the past.

                    

A Victorian School House...

What an intelligent bunch of children.

Flicks & ticks for our cursive handwriting on slate.

Then there were the outdoor games. 

 Bobby Horses ...Giddy up!

 Metal hoop game created by the local blacksmith.

 Stilts and blocks.

What a fun packed day - Oh the learning!!!

This is great! One of our Mum's went to Howick as a child and this is the picture. She returned for the first time since, with her daughter in Room 2.

KUMEU ART CENTRE - ROAD SHOW!

A fantastic event filled with oodles of doodles!

A wonderful opportunity to explore the basics of art interpretation and opinion.

 We all started with a circle. It is mind-blowing, just how individualised and creative, every child and adult is!

 
Some of the artwork we saw at the traveling art roadshow.

We used our sketch books to select and draw the 3 most interesting images from parts of the gallery pieces. 

Whakawhanaungatanga

We completed our inquiry with koru patterns for our family. We also wrote about our own culture and discussed the differences other families have to our own.

Our Culture Writing CLICK HERE TO VIEW

Whakawhanaungatanga

My family is special because my Dad comes from South Africa and my Mum comes from New Zealand. I can speak  South African and  English. My family like different things. They like to eat spaghetti. Some other families like to eat pasta. By Julian

My family is different to other families  because my family likes watching Christmas carols. My favourite carol is Grandma got run over by a reindeer and Snoopy’s Christmas. Mum’s favourite song is a song I do not know. I love my family. Families like different things to my family.  My family likes going to Mic Donilds and KFC. Our favourite food is cheese burgers and roast fish and tacos. Some families eat different food to mine. By Kainoa

My family celebrates by going out for dinner or having a BBQ at a beach. We had a lot of fun at both of these places. My family culture is special because we eat fish and chips.  Only on wednesdays though. We go to rainbows end. we go on gold rush too. Its lots of fun. By Logan

My family is different from other families because my family is funny. When we celebrate it is fun and peopl came over to my house and celebrate my birthday, Christmas and Easter. I have fun when it is my birthday. I get alot of presents for my birthday and Christmas too. My family culture is special. This is because we go on holdays and we are going to Bali and it is going to be fun. My family likes to go fishing and one time I caought a king fish and it was big. My family is from New Zealand and they speak English too. I love my family.   By Grayson

My family celebrates Christmas. My  family is  special  because we look different. My brother has got golden hair. Dads got   brown hair and I have brown hair. By Braith

Christmas I put a chrismas tree up.A lot of people came to my house. My gran parents and my aunty came. My family culture is special because we like going to the playground. It is fun! I am from New Zealand and my Dad and my sister but my Mum is from Australia. My Grandparents live in Australia. Their favourite food is McDonalds. By Cohen

My   family   celebrate Easter. Doing it is very very fun.We love playing together and we love to play. It was fun. My family culture is special because we celebrate  christmas. My like having fish and chips but some families like having pizza for dinner. By Kody

My familiy is special because we celebrates  chrismas. we  open presents  but   first   we  make  breakfast.  Then  a  shower   and   then   we open  our  presents.  And   for  our  birthday   we  go  to  rainbowz end  we  go  on   the   goldrush!!!!   It  is  awesome!!!  For  Lunch  we  have  chocolate  cake  it  is  cool. My Dad speaks NZ and my little sister too. We speak Ozzy, that is where me and my Mum come from. Families lke different things. Logan’s family likes fish and chips. It’s yummy. He puts lemons and tomato sauce on it and eats it. By Tyson

My family is special be cos we have have lots and lots and lots of  toys and we have a playground too. My family likes chicken! I have 4 people in my family. Some families have 6 people in their families. By Shalev

These are some examples - From the children who published them on the chrome books.

EXTREME EXERCISE EVENT

Wow what a great couple of days! The children just kept going and going!!!

• We started with a whole school walk
• striking games next
• A community bike ride before lunch
• Whole school Tug-of-war and much, much, more!!!

Here are some images of our children in action.

 

 

Disco king!!!