Week 9!

Kia Ora Koutou Katoa,

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. Here's a long awaited (and incomplete) blog post about what we've been up to recently. 

• On Friday 1 October the whole school is doing a trip to Wainui. We'll be needing some parent helpers. If you're able to come along to help out for the day please be in touch. At this point Room 2 still needs some more parents.
• This week, we're going to start a character portrait about someone who is special to us. It could be a parent, grandparent, sports coach, music tutor or someone of significance. Friends or siblings aren't encouraged as topics for this one as I find that the quality of ideas can be too dependent on their latest interaction. Please have a chat to your child and decide on a person of significance to them whom they would like to write about. Students sometimes like to bring in photos of their special person (which I can photocopy) to put on their desk as they write. If you'd like to sit down with your child to jot down details and ideas about their chosen character that would be a great resource for generating writing ideas at school.
• Homework books to school on Monday please!
• Book bags have become very thin on the ground of late, please help your child remember to pop their book bag in their bag daily.

Last week was Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. On Tuesday the school came together to celebrate the Māori Language Moment - an initiative to try to break the work record for the most people celebrating an indigenous language at one time. At Motupipi, we got together to sing one of our favourite waiata, Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi, which the students sang with enthusiasm and pride. In classes, students continued their te reo learning, karakia and waiata. On Friday we did a te reo scavenger hunt where the students worked with their tuakana teina buddies to hunt down and match up te reo numbers and colours which were hidden around the school. As always, the older buddies did a wonderful job of making the activitiy fun for the younger ones. Ka mau te wehi!

Rock On,

Mr M

Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi Video

Jett Attenborough and Her Amazing Lizard Lockdown Video

Evalyn's Recent Adventures

The First Day of Level Two

 

Lockdown Work from the Room 2 University

Kia Ora All,

It's been great receiving videos and pictures of all the learning everyone has been doing at home. Here's a selection of some of the stuff that's been sent through. My apologies if I've missed your contribution - please email me and let me know if you've got something you'd like included in the next post.  

Rock on,

Mr M

 Jett W's Frog Project

"Today we made 2 frog ponds out of an old mussel boys!!! they dig them into the ground, put rocks, and collected pond weed, frog eggs… here’s hoping we have frogs soon!!"

Jett's 'not to do' list - I especially like 'don't punch a bee's nest'

Jett's Are You A Frog Quiz

Rory's Chemical Compounds Project

 Jed's Creative Island Map + Limerick 

Jed has been making the most of lockdown by doing plenty of the work I've sent out and also by honing his violin skills!

 Zoe has been sending through some super maths, writing, reading and drawing tasks. 

April's Water Blasting and Map 

April has been helping out with some water blasting and also managing to fit in a bunch of school work. The map was an 'Unplugged Friday' task which April took to the next level by using Playmobil to create the scene and then photographing it before adding in the captions. 

Marlee's Home Learning Regime 

Here's a pic of Marlee's study regime (she can change the order daily)