This week in Hine-Rau-Wharangi we have been working on our drawing skills using Kids Art Hub to help us with our self portraits. While drawing we have been looking at shape, size and proportion to make sure our picture features are evenly spaced out. Then Hine-Rau-Wharangi began to paint their faces with a color that we mixed and was suitable for our skin tones. They are still a work in progress. The class has been working super hard on their writing and making sure that they add as many heart words from our reading activities into our stories. In Math we are looking at before and after numbers and have been using our TV screen technology to do different whole class activities around our Math learning, the favorite one they are particularly fond of is the Funky Mummy adding activity.

Report by Mrs Brewer

Have you heard about our fantastic new sports gear? We were so excited to have a big box arrive full of new sports gear for our classroom and we have slowly been learning to use each piece of equipment. We have balance boards, a badminton net and rackets, an agility ladder, tennis balls, balls with ribbons, skip-it's, soccer goals, cornhole, bow and arrows, bean bag targets and more! We are especially enjoying learning to use the bow and arrows. This is helping to build strength in our arms and develop hand eye coordination! We want to say a great big thank you to Bailey and her Aunty for making us our very own class set of poi! They look AMAZING and must have taken hours to make. We are having a great time learning to twirl them while learning the Māori terms for the actions to go along with the song E rere taku poi (runga- up raro-down roto-in waho-out). When we have mastered the words and the actions together we will try and get a video up on our Seesaw blog for you all to see! We have been working really hard to place full stops and capital letters in the correct places in our writing. We are using kung-fu punctuation actions to keep it fun and help us to remember. In Maths we are learning about place value in numbers. We have been playing teen / ty bingo and learning to make numbers in the thousands by using ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. We will keep working on this over the coming weeks. Swimming begins next week! Please remember to send your children's togs, goggles and towels along. It is helpful if they wear clothing and footwear that is easy to put on after swimming and an extra snack in the lunchbox is often handy as swimming is hungry work!

Report by Mrs Swete

We are learning to write sentences full of detail. We are putting all our learning about nouns, adjectives, verbs AND adverbs together to write amazing sentences filled with detail. The children are doing such a great job pushing their thinking to create interesting pieces of writing that capture the reader's attention.

We are continuing on our art buzz and learning all about “The Language of Colour’. Did you know colours make us feel differently and we associate colours with different things? Such as green for go! Red for stop! And, black for dark and evil. We have learnt about primary, secondary and tertiary colours and painted our own colour wheels. We will be continuing our colour learning over the next few weeks.

Lastly, please also remember that next week we begin our swimming lessons. Please make sure children have their togs each day and sometimes an extra snack can help too!

Report by Miss Laing

This week we have had a great time with Mr Fisher. We made some fraction bingo boards. They made learning fractions easier as it was a game. We also made cards with different parts of speech such as adverbs, adjectives and nouns. They helped us to play a game to make wacky sentences.

Yesterday we took part in a whole day cycle skills programme. We learnt all about the road and hand signals and even had a chance to go out and practice on the actual road. These skills are important to keep us safe when cycling.

One of our favourite pieces of writing this week was based on a book called The Land of Promise. It was about early settlers heading to New Zealand on the boat Adelaide from England. We created a map to track the coordinates from the story. It was an exciting and interesting journey, but also a little sad.

Report by Jorjah and Boon