Term 3 Week 9

Junior School Poem Presentations

This week each student in Te Kakano presented their chosen poem to the class. The focus was to introduce the poem, speak clearly and loudly, stand on one spot and look at the audience. The students gave each other polite feedback afterwards. They certainly made their teacher very proud. We have some wonderful orators in the making!! Ka pai to mahi tamariki! 

April's poem - 'Rain Rain'

Mia's Poem - an original about her class

                                       

Isaiah - 'Hairy, Scary Spider'

                        

Thomas - 'Space'

Liam - 'Space'

Anahera - 'Hairy, Scary Spider'

Nova - 'Rain'

Halo - 'Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer'

Patrick - 'Space'

Kyrie - 'Space'

Ivy - 'Lollipop Lollipop'

 

 Here we are, 'Proud and Passionate' leaders of our own learning!

Lovely little seeds who took up the challenge to learn a poem off by heart and to present it to the class. Everyone certainly deserved  their certificates.

This week students at Paparore school also received a lovely warm jacket from Kids Can. Te Kakano students loved their jackets so much that they didn't want to take them off.

Thank you KIDS CAN! 

Term 3 Week 7 2020

 There is no place like SPACE!

Te Kakano students are enjoying their learning about space.

We are learning about each planet, the sun, our moon, day and night, galaxies and constellations. In our classroom we have a Space Station and Rocketship called the Space Explorer NZ. We have turns at putting on the space suit and blasting off to explore the solar system with a friend. Before taking off we have to complete a flight plan and pre-flight check. 

                                         

                                                  

                                                 

Check out our blog next week for an update on our learning about SPACE. Thanks for checking in. We hope you left a comment because we love reading them.

 

Week 6, Term 3 2020

Home Learning Rewards 

All the students at our school who complete their home learning as required get rewarded on two afternoons a term by being able to choose from a range of fun activities. Te Kakano classroom was available for students to be creative through play. They enjoyed the 'Kakano Cafe', construction and building, role play, dressing up, play dough and the rocket. What a fabulous afternoon!

Term 3, Week 5, 2020

Writing an explanation of 'Day and Night.'

Here is Mia sharing her fabulous explanation.

Term 3 Week 4 2020

 Galaxies galore!

Today we made galaxy jars to help us remember our learning about space. At the end of the day these are the facts that the students remembered:

1. A galaxy is a group of millions of stars.
2. Our solar system is part of a galaxy.
3. Our galaxy is called 'The Milky Way.'
4. Our galaxy looks like a spiral.
5. There are a billion other galaxies.
6. The universe is bigger than gigantic!!

We made the galaxy jars with water coloured with paint, silver glitter, sequins and stars, and cotton balls. We loved them so much Mrs Dane said we could take them home to help us explain to our families what we have learned about galaxies . . . especially our galaxy, The Milky Way. 

Term 3 Week 4

Te Kakano Class - The seeds 

Yea!! Today was the first day this term that all the students in te Kakano came to school. Here we are!

Out of this World

This term we are learning new things about our solar system. Te Kakano students have been really interested in finding out about the planets, stars, moons and how our solar system works. 

In our group rotations during maths some of the students made rocket ships. Check out these original designs!

Jayden and Thomas

Mia

Kyrie

Anahera

Liam, Kyrie and Jackson

April and Nova

April

Di'Andre

Austen and Alaris brought their two week old lamb to school for a visit. Lammie was very sweet and we loved patting her soft fleece. We all had a turn feeding her water from a baby's bottle and watched Alaris feed her some oats. Lammie followed Austen when he ran across the field. 

  

Thank you Toni, Austen and Alaris for bringing Lammie to school. 

Term 3 Week 3 2020

Our focus letter for this week was the letter s. We learnt about the sound the letter s makes in words and how to correctly write an s. Today for our letter craft activity we made a snake.

Our cutting skills are getting so much better!

We would like to share our learning with you. 

We also had fun playing a letter sound card game. Mrs Dane was really impressed.

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Until next time . . . Ka kite ano!