First Week back at School After Lockdown

Our first week back at school after lockdown in Alert Level 2 has been a little bit different. Some of our friends have to leave early with their younger brothers and sisters. When we leave our classrooms we all go over to Dawson field and our whānau picks us up from there.
We wash our hands or use hand sanitizer before we go into our classrooms, before we eat, after we go to the toilet, and before we use devices. 

We also have to bring a named drink bottle or cup as we can't use the drinking fountains.

 We have been looking at our blog and our online learning tasks from the rāhui/lockdown time and sharing our experiences.

 

Our projector has decided not to work so we have been working in groups in room 7. We are having fun making props for our characters and acting out the story about the giant that has tantrums. Together we have designed the setting for the story Thistle Mountain.

Welcome Back to Kura

Kia ora koutou, welcome back to kura. 

The class is clean and tidy and ready for you all to return on Monday.

Your Own Learning or e-ako

Bitmoji

Pūtaiao - How to make colourful flowers.

WATCH:

TALK: Do you think this experiment is real? Why or why not? What might make the flowers change colour? Would humans change colour if we drank different coloured liquids? How do you know? What do you need to complete this experiment? What are the steps? What do you predict will happen? Are there any different ways you could do it? Could you do multiple colours with one flower? Does it only work with white flowers?

DO: Change the colour of a flower. Find some flowers, either on your property or in your neigbourhood. Try and get a few different types of flowers, different sizes, and colours. Try out the experiment. What were your results? Were your predictions correct?

Whaea Kat's Experiment

Tuhituhi

I loved how the red umbrella stood out in the sea of black umbrellas. At the start, I didn’t even see the clock tower. What caught your eye and what did you think?

There are 5 different writing tasks:

• Story starter!
• Question time!
• Sentence Challenge!
• Sick sentences!
• Picture perfect!

Choose your favourite one and write. Use either paper or pen or a google document.

Do more than one if you wish.

Finish this story.

Think about the characters. What is the problem or issue? How is it going to be resolved?

Think about these questions.

If you don’t understand what some of the words mean look them up in a dictionary.

Answer them using full sentences.

For example, I think the significance of the clocktower is… because...

What is a simile?

Use adjectives (describing words) to make these sentences interesting.

Describe the rain or the umbrellas or the clocktower.

Tuakana - teina

Whaowhia te kete mātauranga

Fill your basket of knowledge

Talk to the people in your bubble. Get each person to pick a skill or a subject that they are interested in and teach it to others in the whānau.

Some examples: how to plant seedlings, how to cook eggs, how to knit or crochet, how to dance, how to draw a cartoon. The list is endless.

Share your learning through writing, drawing, or a video.

Te Reo Māori

Kaua he whakamā ki te korerō Māori, ahakoa he iti, he tāonga 

Don’t be shy to speak Maori, no matter how little, treasure it!

Look: Check out the 140 words on the Tinycards stack. They are the first nine weeks of words from the Māori Made Easy textbook. If you have someone in your bubble that is fluent in Te Reo then ask them to teach you some words and phrases.

Tinycards

Talk: There are 140 words in the Tinycard stack. How much Reo have you heard in your bubble? Interview each of your bubble members - how many of the 140 words do you think they know the Reo Pākeha (English) version of? What do you think about practice? Can you learn anything if you practice it enough?

Do: Use the tinycards website to work through the lessons. This could take a whole day so if you want your kids to learn on separate devices then download the free app. Enjoy learning and practicing these words with your whānau. Make a poster, a google drawing, a comic, or do some writing that shows me what you have been learning.