Passion Project

 We have been starting to look at what we are passionate about.  Here are a few of our ideas so far about what we are passionate about.  We have learnt that passion is when you are excited, inspired and challenged by something.

Librarian Visit

Krystel from the Westland District Library 

We were lucky enough to have Rauhine and Krystel from the Westland District Library come to class today and share a story with us.  

Krystel read us Kowhai and the Giants.  This is a New Zealand Book Award book.  We then did a craft activity and had to make a tree and leaves. 

Ruma Tui really enjoyed making their tree.  We had many different shaped trees just like you would see in a forest.

We also learnt about when we are out walking in the bush we could collect some seeds and plant them to grow more trees for us to enjoy.

Rauhine telling a story

Scroll down to take a look at a few of the trees we made.

Don't forget to look for seeds when out walking.

Amelia super pleased with her tree.

Lucas putting on his leaves.

Evelyn with her finished tree.

Ava with her finished tree.

Hayley working hard to glue on her leaves.

Caden gluing on his leaves.

Violet with her finished tree.

Pippa busy gluing on her leaves.

Story of Poutini and Waitaiki

Here is the story of Waitaki and Poutini that has been retold by the Junior School.  They all decided and made up the actions to go with the story.  Ruma Tui students learnt their lines and did a marvellous job of speaking.  Enjoy Kaniere School juniors performance.

 

 

Matific Olympiad

What a start to the Matific competition.  We had lots of Matific monsters turning up at school this morning to kick off the competition. Tui have been super focussed and working hard to collet as many stars as possible.  Bring on tomorrow to see what we can do.

Sam working hard on his Matific

Pippa working hard

Mateus, Elizabeth, Hayley and Austin all working hard. 

Tasman super focussed on his Matific tasks.

Scarlett working hard

Lucas is on Fire

Olly

Monster Essie working hard

Evie's cut little monster.

Korfball

Korfball Instructions

We had our very first try of Korfball today.  It was such a fun game to play.  All the students had a good go at playing and really tried their best.

We were lucky and had two goes.  Our first part was learning the rules and how to play the game.  Our second part in the afternoon was putting what we have learnt together and playing the game.  Check out our photos and read our comments about what we thought of it.

Game Time

Aahil and Harmony going for the ball.

Further instructions

Everyone enjoying a game

Second round of Korfball

Elizabeth's good throw

Thanking Taustin

Play Dough Making

Busy getting ready to knead our play dough.

We decided to make a pink lot of play dough.

Nevaeh kneading the play dough.

We have been busy making play dough today for our fraction maths next week.  We enjoyed picking out the colours and kneading it.  Have you every made play dough? 

Athletics and Beach Clean Up

 Super proud of all of Ruma Tui and all the effort that they put into their athletics events.  Also a big walk down to the beach to pick up rubbish after they had finished.  Here is a short video of some of the photos that were taken.

Our Learning About Zones

 We have been learning about the Zones of Regulation and how our engines run.  We have been working really hard and are now able to start talking about the zones and can recognise the feelings that we have in the different zones.  We still have some more senses to work on so keep an eye out for our next video and learning.

Tuesday Maths

We have been using materials to solve problems when subtracting the tens and ones.  We have also been learning about what the minus symbol means.  We learnt that there are many different ways to talk about minus like subtraction and takeaway. 

Life Education

Checking out a movie about how to treat people nicely.

Discussing the video about what Billy did to make friends and what we would do if he was in our class.

Creating our puzzle about being a friend.

We are looking forward to learning about how to deal with conflict tomorrow.