Term 1 Week 8: A Sad Day for New Zealand

It's been a sad week.

We heard about the shootings in Christchurch on the news and from our mums and dads. We talked about what we knew. Some of us asked questions. We all felt sad! We noticed that the New Zealand and Silver Fern flags were flying at half-mast on the school flag pole. We wondered about this. We learned that it was a mark of mourning and respect for the people who had died in the mosque shootings in Christchurch. 

 
 I made flowers for the people that died in Christchurch. I am sad that the people died.  Miley









I made a red flower for the people that died in Christchurch. I was sad because the people died.  Tia



I was sad because the people died.                                            Connor




Why did I make a flower? Because I was sad about the people who got shot.                                       Keifer

My flower is for the people who died.
 All the people in New Zealand were sad.

We made flowers for the people who died
in the mosque. We were sad.

My flower is for the people who died and we had assembly outside by the flag.                                            Joron




This flower is for the people who died.
                                                      Levi

My flower is for the sad people.

I made a flower because it was a sad day
when the people died.

I made a blue flower because we
were sad that people got killed. 

I made this flower for the people
that died. I cried when I heard.

                         

We made hearts.

We had a special remembrance assembly.

             

Term 1 Week 5

Who got caught being a kind friend and sharing the toys?

Nooroa the Kind Cowboy and Preet the Sharing Prince!

We were reading 'The Pirate who said Please' by Timothy Knapman about a boy who learnt to be polite and use his manners. Te Kakano students who used their manners got to wear pirate dress-ups. Before I could say "shiver me timbers" we had students making treasure maps, building pirate ships and making eye patches. We read more pirate books, talked all piratey, researched what real pirate ships looked like, and, what pirates wore. We also discovered that there were lady pirates! A pirate ship appeared [thank ye me hearty Sharlene Grbic for climbing aboard and helping the Te Kakano crew with this]. 

                                                                                                                           

         
                      
             
                                                

                                 

The students named the good ship 'The Polly' after reading about Pirate Polly. The name changed to the Polly Roger  when we read another story with a ship called the 'Jolly Roger'. One of the children noticed that Jolly and Polly rhymed and said that our pirate ship could be the'Polly Roger'. The Polly Roger still sails across the deep blue sea on a mission to find treasure. The treasure is shared fairly of course and the pirates always use their manners. 

We joined Te Pihi Pirates in a Pirate Dress-Up Day, We went on a treasure hunt, talked all piratey, walked the plank into the school pool and had lots of FUN!

"Yo ho ho ye landlubbers."

Term 1 Week 4

In Te Kakano both the big and small blocks are favourites. We have a number of budding civil  engineers, architects and builders. Week by week the designs are becoming more thoughtful, purposeful and creative.

  So . . . we made block towers in maths. We are learning that the next number in the range 1-10 is 1 more [5 + 1 = 6]. This is also the number that comes after. We kept adding 1 more block, discussed what we had done and counted how many. When our towers were 10 blocks high, we made them smaller by taking away one block at a time, counting back as we went and predicting what the before number would be.

 



The clever Te Kakano students have been thinking and sharing ideas about who and what can help us to be better learners. Did you know that we all have BRILLIANT BRAINS? We know that if we love to learn new things this will help. We have rockets in our  pockets and every day we are developing a positive 'growth mindset' to help us in our learning.                         We say:

💜 "I can't do it ...YET!" 
💚"I'm going to train my brain.!"
💗"I can do hard things!"
💙"Challenges help me grow!"
💛"I can always try again!"
💜"I love learning!"
Recognising letters and knowing the sound/sounds each letter makes in words is very important. Letters make sounds, letter sounds make words and words are how we share our ideas and thoughts with others when we talk and write. We would like to share some of the ways we learnt about the letter Bb today.

In the words of Dr. Seuss . . .

Congratulations!

Today is your day.

You're off to Great Places!

You're off and away!

You have brains in your head

You have feet in your shoes

You can steer yourself

Any direction you choose!

Term 1, Week 3

Term 1 Week 3

We have been learning to read and write the words I and am. 

Check out this fabulous writing. We all kept trying even though it was tricky. 

First we chose an outfit from the Dress-up Box and looked at ourselves in the mirror. 

 

 

 

                                                

                

                    

               

         

                

      

The King and Queen of SHARING

A very kind cowgirl and cowboy!

I hope you all enjoy seeing what we are learning. 

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