Week 5 Home Learning

 

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Week 4 Making waikato te awa, Taupiri te maunga in the sandpit

 We have been talking a lot about Waikato te awa (river) and Taupiri te maunga (mountain). Last week, we made the river and experimented putting bamboo leave waka (canoe) on the river. This week, we made the river and the mountain in the sandpit. We worked together to make the trails for the river. Some children worked hard to make the mountain. 

On Friday, we made Waikato te awa and tāniwha. 

We looked carefully at patterns on taniwha’s bodies. Some had zigzag patterns and others had koru patterns. They were very colourful. 

Week 3 Full of fun and learning!

 We have been learning about Waikato te awa. Awa is river in Māori. We have been reading about taniwha that lives in a river. 

We made waka with bamboo leaves and made Waikato te awa outside!

We observed how the water ran and how it pushed the waka. Some children noticed the courts had a slight slope which made water trails on the slope. We had so much fun with this activity and talked about how the awa started from Lake Taupo and ran to Port Waikato. 

We also did some sorting of our shoes. We learnt that we could sort into types of shoes and colours. One of the children said that people like pink and blue shoes to wear in our class as those were the most popular colours. 

And of course we continued to work on our portraits! These children loved using the fly swats to splat the paints on the paper. Tiny square patterns were made by the fly swats. 

Our portraits!

 We have started working on our portraits. We made the background first with paints and drew ourselves with sharpies and coloured with soft pastels. Our children really enjoyed using pastels and rubbing colours with their fingers. 

More portraits photos to come next week! Awesome work everyone! 

Term 1, week 1 begins!

 Nau mai, haere mai. Welcome to Room 2’s blog “Passionate Learners”!

We have had great first 2 days of school, it has been amazing welcoming children and getting to know them. 

We are a play-based classroom and our tamariki were so curious at finding their interests and were engaged in their play for a long period of time. We have tried doing process art which involved dropping different colours of paints on a piece of paper and sliding the squeegee down and upwards. The children were so mesmerised at the effects that created. They said that it was the most fun thing we did on the second day! 

I am really looking forward to getting to know everyone and their whānau in Room 2!