Bucket filling in our studio

We have had a wonderful week in our studio. We have been focussing on Manaakitanga (showing care and respect for self and others), and how we can care for others by filling their buckets. 

Check out the things we have done to help fill each other's buckets. 

Playing Elastics with each other 

 

Giggles galore in our castle 

Birdhouses and Hydroslides underway 

We have a great song all about filling our buckets. Have a look below...It's very catchy!

Whole School Assembly

On Friday
we had a very different whole school assembly as we connected with each other via Zoom. 

We met out new school leaders, Hunter Hooson and Eve Cai. 

Then Mrs Mora announced the winning whanau house, as part of our new PB4L (Positive Behviour for Learning) acknowledgement system. We have been collecting whanau cards during our break times. We can collect them by showing our school values in the playground. If we get spotted a teacher can reward us with a ticket. They then get collected in our new house boxes. 

The winning whanau house this week with the most whanau cards was.... WHERO! This whanau gets 10mins free time. In Huritini we spent 10mins in our forest. It was so much fun!! 

With the draw, there is also an individual draw and we were so excited when Harriet from T14 was pulled out of the box. This meant that Harriet was able to pick a friend and play in the blue room with all the blue stuff by themselves. Well done Harriet, you were spotted showing whanaungatanga in our playground. 

Huritini Haka

 We have been practicing our Huritini Haka. Check us out!! 

Below are the words for you to have a go at home. 

Ko te roopu

Tī Kōuka Tī Kōuka 

Ko te roopu 

Whio Whio

Ko te roopu 

Huritini Huritini

Turangawaewae

Tu ki te Kura 

Hi

Translation

Our group Tī Kōuka

Our group Whio

Our group Huritini 

This is our place 

In our school

Welcome, Welcome, Haere Mai.

 Today for our poem we did the song 'Welcome, Welcome, Haere Mai'  We all went outside and practised singing the song.

Below is the music video of the song so you can watch it at home together. 

During play we like...

• exploring and investigating about the world around us

• making lego spinners and battling

• writing

• creating

• playing families

• being great kaitiaki and looking after our area by picking up rubbish

• drawing

• playing make believe games

• reading

• performing puppet plays

• painting

• making huts

• playing games

Sorting attributes and showing whanaungatanga.

This week we have been looking at how we can organise different collections.

We looked at what makes objects in our collection different from one another  We thought about what attributes are important for showing differences. 

We were also practising whanaungatanga by making sure we listened to our buddy and respected their ideas.

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  We sorted by size.
  
  We sorted our shells by shape.
  
  
  
  
  
  We sorted by size.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We sorted by size too.
  
  
  
  We sorted by texture. If it was bumpy, smooth or rough.
  
  
  We sorted by colour
  
  
  We sorted by texture- bumpy or rough
  
  
  We sorted by shape.
  
  
  We sorted by strong(hard to rip) or not strong(easy to rip)
  
  
  We sorted by colour.
  
  
  We sorted by size.
  
  
  We sorted by colour

We looked at our collections and talked about what title

we could use for our display. We also talked about if it

was easy to see how many are in each group and how could

we organise the items so it easy to see how many there

are.

For our next collections we tried to organise the items so

we could easily see how many there were in each group.

Getting to know each other...

 During maths we made a birthday graph for each T group. We used our maths eyes to see what we noticed and what we wondered.