Water Safety

In Te Maunga we did water safety with Tracey. We learnt about how to be safe around the water. These are some of the rules that she told us: 1. Check the weather 2. Throw a stick in the water to see if the current or the rip is strong or weak 3. Never swim alone 4. Tell Coastguards if you go out in a boat 5. Never go swimming with a teenager supervising you 6. Take an adult with you And also !!!!!!!DO NOT USE FLOATIES!!!!!!!!

Rebecca Brothers

In Te Maunga we have been learning about Rebecca Brothers. We had to make a Google Drawing in our Other folder and we had to write appropriate Questions to ask Rebecca Brothers. Rebecca Brothers Won 249 Medals 117 were Gold, 49 Bronze and 90 Silver. I learnt that you can do anything if you try hard.

Geometry

This Term in Te Maunga we have been learning about Geometry and about Shapes and sorts of
different Shapes I don’t know about but the easy thing was counting the sides, edges
and the corners but the hard thing was counting which one was the angles.

The Success Criteria was:

• What you learnt
• What you found trick

WALT: write a blog reflection.

Flubber

In Te Maunga this term we have been making lots of experiments inspired by fractions in Maths all we needed was Warm Water, PVA Glue and Borax . 4 ¼ of Water (1 Cup) 4 Cups of PVA Glue and 4 teaspoons of Borax. so we added it all together but it DID not work and it didn’t work because we we added too much water and so it didn’t work and it was too sticky.

Kaimoana

In Te Maunga we have been learning about Te Reo Māori Food/Kai. We made a Google slides in our Te Reo folder and named it Kai, we also had Whaea Lisa in teaching us some Maori words and Mrs Pou made us eat different sorts of food and we had to see if it was Reka/Sweet or Kawa/Sour. We say that a Pineapple was a Painaporo and i thought the Painaporo was yum and Reka.

Ataahua's Term 3 Math Goals

At the beginning of term three we had to choose our goals for this term. We had to choose some Maths goals that we want to achieve. There was some evidencing and some goals I didn’t achieve last term so I put these on my term three Maths goals. We picked the ones off the I C A N sheet that we did not know then added them to our Maths Goals. The WALT: was to choose our own goals.

Ataahua's Term 3 Writing Goals

At the beginning of term 3 we had to choose our goals for this term. We had to choose some writing goals that we didn’t achieve. There were spelling goals to learn for writing and there were some goals I didn’t achieve last term so I put them on my term two writing goals. WALT: was to choose our own goals.

Math Problem Solving

In Te Maunga we have been doing Math Problem Solving everyday after Morning Tea time and we work out big numbers in our group to solve them and we did our Wingspan and Height. Our Wingspan is how long both our arms rezh out . We do math solving for Matariki. I work with Nikara and Kayden in my group. We use our talk moves and we collaborate together. We always work out what the question is asking us to solve.

Matariki

On Tuesday Te Maunga we went on a trip to Waitangi Treaty Grounds with Te Tahuna. When we got to the Treaty grounds we did some games and the first thing we did was weaving Nikau flax and making Angel fish out of the Nikau flax then we did some Māori games the first Māori game was Maui - Matau it was really fun, then we played Kīte after that we went to go planting. I planted a Nikau flax in the Matariki garden. We went to celebrate Matariki the Māori New Year.

New Zealand 2018 Paihia School Road Track

He tino Reka He tino Kawa

In Te Maunga we made a slide presentation & we named it Kai & saved it in Te Reo Maori and on slide 5 we titled it Reka & Kawa. We made a Table one side for Reka & one for Kawa before we made this slide we tried some sour food and sweet food some were sour and some were sweet then we made our slide and the food that was sweet we put in Reka and the ones that were sour went in Kawa. Then we had to write He tino Reka & He tino Kawa & put them in the correct side of the Table.

Rocky Shore

At the start of WEEK 2 on we were learning a new topic for Inquiry about Te Moana and Te Tahuna. We created a Google Drawing and we named it RS then our name. We had to compare Paihia’s rocky shore to what a rocky shore should look like. Then we were allowed to add some photos if we wanted. I learnt that our rocky shore should not look like it does now it should have much bigger sea creatures and way less pollution.

Term Two Maths Goals

At the beginning of term two we had to choose our goals for this term. We had to choose some Maths goals that we didn’t achieve. There were evidencing and there were some goals I didn’t achieve last term so I put some on my term two Maths goals. We picked the ones off the I C A N sheet that we did not know then added them to our Maths Goals. The WALT: was to choose our own goals.

Term 2 Writing Goals

At the beginning of term two we had to choose our goals for this term. We had to choose some writing goals that we didn’t achieve. There were spelling goals to learn for writing and there were some goals I didn’t achieve last term so I put them on my term two writing goals. WALT: was to choose our own goals.