Tuna Zentangle

We have finally finished our tuna zentangle art and are pretty proud of how they look. We did this for art as part of our tuna study last term but our manu taratahi took so long to make that we ran out of time to finish the zentangle.

First, we learnt what zentangle is. It is a type of doodling that was designed to help relax and calm the mind. We then drew a basic outline of a tuna on white paper. Next, we added our zentangle designs with pencil and when we were happy with them we went over them with black vivid. Finally, we cut out the tuna, glued it onto tin foil, cut that out and pasted it onto coloured paper. We hope you enjoy our work!

Hinaki Week

So at the end of last term we had a Tuna and Takakau week at school. In room 5 and 6 we designed and made our own hinaki in a hope of catching a tuna. When we had made them we walked to the local farm and set our hinaki. The next day we returned hopeful to have a tuna in them. Unfortunately they were empty. Here are some pictures of our hinaki.

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu

This term Room 5 have joined the Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu blogging program and we have been connected with Room 8 at Glenbrae Primary School, Room 21 at Owairaka Primary School and Mamaku 3 at Grey Main Primary School. We have begun our blogging journey but are still learning how to make quality blog posts and blog comments. We are looking forward to seeing what these 3 classes are learning about and how they share this through their blogs. Here is an introduction to most of the students from Room 5 (we are missing a few who have been away). We hope you enjoy reading about who we are. Happy Blogging!

Recycling at Kawakawa

Here is a piece of writing from Te Aroha about recycling at school. She used great language to persuade her audience. She has some strong reasons to support her opinion. Well done Te Aroha.

WE SHOULD RECYCLE AT KAWAKAWA PRIMARY?

Do you want to stop pollution? Recycling is a great way to help the environment and save it from things such as pollution, Global warming and climate change. I strongly believe that we should recycle our rubbish at Kawakawa primary school. When you recycle your helping your community, school and the world to make it a safer and cleaner place. People are causing massive problems that are damaging our planet that’s why i think we need to recycle at Kawakawa primary school.

Firstly Do you want to make our environment more cleaner? i think that recycling would be a great way to help the environment to stop it from global warming and pollution. Recycling will improve our chances of climate change and save our animals from pollution. It’s vital for us to have clean air when your recycling it helps us lower the amount of rubbish that we throw into our bins. When you don’t recycle your rubbish ends up into the landfill going into the earth.

Secondly it’s a great way to teach the younger students about how to look after Papatuanuku and the animals. When they grow up they can learn to recycle their rubbish to help save our environment and teach their children to recycle. If we recycle at Kawakawa primary we will teach other students how to recycle and what to do to keep our school clean. Recycling can make our school cleaner and might influence other schools to recycle as well.

Finally all schools around New Zealand and the world need to learn how to take care of the earth and their communities as well as their school to help our chances of pollution, climate change and global warming slimmer. Scientists believe that the main cause for global warming is humans and all the oils and gases that are going into the atmosphere also destroying the ozone layer which is protecting us from the heat of the sun.

Kawakawa primary school needs to recycle to stop pollution and other events happening around earth. It will influence other schools as well to recycle and will teach younger students to look after our planet. I am adamant that we should recycle at Kawakawa primary school to save our planet and influence other schools to do the same.

Manu Taratahi

Today we are working hard to complete our Manu taratahi. When we work together we get a lot more done. We are in the rhythm now and are finding it easy to attach te raupo but it does take a bit of time.

Making Takakau

Today we made takakau (Maori bread). It is a type of bread made with flour and water, although some groups used milk and baking powder too. We had to research and create a recipe before we began, and had Matua Midge help us to get te right consistency. We were all really happy with how our takakau turned out, and some of us will enter it in the competition tomorrow. It has been a fun week of eeling and baking :)

Making and setting Hinaki

This week we are having a tuna and takakau competition at school. We have learnt all about eels over the past few weeks, designed and made a hinaki in groups, and today we set them. We all think we will catch the biggest eel, but tomorrow will tell.

Buddy Reading with Room 12

We had book character day at school today. As part of this we did some buddy reading with our junior class. It was lots of fun. We then played a shared game of Kahoot with them about characters from books they read. Thanks Room 12 for having us come and read to you. Hope we can do it again soon.

Manu Taratahi

Today Room 5 started creating our Manu Taratahi. We are learning how to use traditional materials (toetoe, harakeke and raupo) to construct our kites and also how to gather our materials respectfully. We have learnt a karakia to say before we harvest and know to never cut the rito (child) and awhi rito (parents) of the harakeke or raupo as this can harm the plant. We managed to put our frames together today and have found using harakeke as rope to be a little challenging. Next week we will be attaching the raupo, and are looking forward to seeing our manu taratahi come together.

BOYZ RAP - RESILIENCE

Some boys in Room 6 had fun creating a rap about the 3R's. They had to write their rap related to the school values.