Tuakana/Teina Learning

 Learning from our tuakana

Ngai Takoto Whakatauki -  He iti marangai, tu ana te pahukahuka, He iti pioke no Rangaunu he au tona… 

Small although the pioke may be, great is its wake, as it traverses the might of the Rangaunu harbour.

To help us learn the whakatauki (saying) of our local Ngai Takoto iwi, we asked our expert tuakana (older students) to teach us the words and actions.

Nga mihi Te Manga! You were wonderful teachers and now we know our whakatauki off by heart!!

Videos to follow...

Learning Fun in Te Pihi

 We learn best when we're having fun!

Counting, turn-taking and directional skills!

Learn, create, share!

Team work!

Listening, following directions and keeping the beat.

Independent reading time

Patterning in maths

We have been learning how to copy and continue a repeating pattern. 

We had fun exploring patterning with some of our maths equipment.

Maesi-Jane made a rainbow pattern with the peg boards.

Collins made a pattern with the beads on a string.

Mikaere-Jay made a really LONG pattern with the unifix cubes. 

His pattern was as long as his entire body!

Phoenix made two different patterns with the unifix cubes.

Reuben made a coloured pattern with some of the members of the family set.

 

Strike Musical Show

Today Strike Percussion NZ came to perform at our school with their drums and marimba. 

And one of the band members played an electric violin (a stringed instrument). 

It was an amazing, interactive, high energy show and at times it was very loud!

Sir and Mr Masters had a "teacher drum battle" (a competition).

Some of our students got to have a turn at playing the instruments too.

Who knew that a flame-thrower could be turned into a musical instrument?!!!!!!!

 

Welcome to Term 3!

Welcome back to our 7 "old" students and to our 12 "new" students in Te Pihi. Here we are looking very smart on day 1 (We had a false fire alarm during lunchtime so we took the opportunity to take a class photo!)

Amazing Maze Fun!

 The Gardener's Maze

We recently shared the big book 'The Gardener's Maze' and discussed what the gardener needed to make a maze out of hedge plants from scratch. We learnt how to make lists. We went hunting for new words. 

Then we tried to create our own mazes from our maths equipment. 

One of our reading groups read a story about a maze made out of maize in New Zealand. 

Next we found some 3D mazes to try out and we are trying to beat our times and increase the level of difficulty with different mazes.

We are learning directions like: forwards, backwards, left, right, enter and exit.

We all think mazes are amazing!!

We love music time!

 Music with Whaea Jen!

We love learning new songs on the ukulele.

Keeping the beat with drumsticks.

Using the correct hand and fingers.

Real keyboard warriors!

The King of Bass!

New experiences with a violin and bow.