Kia ora koutou. We ended last week with a wonderful SBS Starters Session, where we welcomed three soon-to-be New Entrants. We read a book called “When I Grow up….” and then all drew pictures about what we would like to be when we grow up. This week we have extended our learning beyond our school boundary line, to explore what waterways are near us. Our attention turned to what lives in these waterways, and we drew pictures to illustrate these ideas. Today we retold the story of Blob Fish (it’s an awesome read if you see it at a library) and have discussed what we can do to help protect the species who live beneath. Blob Fish made friends with something he thought looked like him - but no, it turned out to be a plastic bag, that had been dropped off the jetty, into the sea. Our Papatūānuku tamariki decided we could start in our own school yard and collect any rubbish, no matter how small, and put it in the bin, so it doesn’t blow away and end up in our waterways. Our gloves have the words “I keep the sea, rubbish free” on them, to remind us what a helpful job we are doing. The photo of our collected rubbish was approximately a quarter of what we collected. The rest was put in the bins as we went so it wouldn’t blow away either. During our Maths learning we have continued to explore halves and quarters of apples and sandwiches. Some apples may have been consumed during these learning activities!

Rīpoata na Mrs Campbell

Kia ora koutou,

This week measurement in maths has been a top hit! Ranginui students have been accurately measuring all sorts of objects. On Tuesday we all tested our homemade paper planes to see which ones could fly the furthest and in the afternoon we held plane olympics. Thank you to Simon and Miss McPhail in their help to organise and run the events. So much FUN! We are learning new number activities to share with our buddy class and in our own maths lessons. Today we learnt ‘Greedy Pig’ a game of chance and adding several numbers together. ‘Towers’ is another activity we have explored, this game helps us to find the differences between two numbers. The collaboration and communication between the students has supported maths language development too.

We are learning and practicing descriptive writing. We have watched and discussed a silent video of ‘The Girl and the Fox’ and with our buddy writers we are writing the story. Our use of adjectives and adverbs have increased through recrafting our drafts.

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Rīpoata na Miss Ruzsa

The children have done a beautiful job of their work and we are excited to share our pepeha and visual Taku Whakapapa with everyone in Assembly on Friday.

Last week we had our first Buddy Maths session with Hine-Rau-Whārangi and it was so cool to learn and play a maths game all about doubles with Mrs Brewer and her class. After playing the game we talked about ways we could change the game to enable and extend other learners and Mrs Brewer and myself were super impressed with the amazing thinking the children came up with.

We are also exploring measurement in Hinemoana and this week we were throwing cannonballs! First we had to estimate how far we thought we could throw then measure the actual distance in metres. We had some pretty powerful throws and some pretty spot on estimations too, showing us that we are starting to understand the concept and visualise a metre. From there we got into groups and had to order our measurements from smallest to largest, we then came together as a class and identified the longest and shortest throw in the class. The last challenge was to work out the difference between these two throws. 17m - 2.42m = ? The children did a great job working together to problem solve subtracting tricky decimals!

Adverbs is our focus in writing this week. We have learnt that adverbs describe a verb (think an adjective for a verb!) Our adverbs are becoming a topic for writing an adverb poem and we are looking forward to these coming to life and publishing.

Rīpoata na Miss Laing

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