Thursday, 16 August 2012

Term 3, Week 6


What an interesting week it has been once again in Room 3... We started off with our fabulous composting session with Sarah Langhi and learned all about the way in which carbon and nitrogen rich (“browns” and “greens”) waste is broken down by worms and microorganisms to create delicious food to help plants thrive. We had a wonderful time as pirates, sorting out our ideas about measurement in metres for maths week, and we enjoyed meeting Mrs Malcom on Wednesday and learning some rhymes and songs :) We developed our skills using poi, and are getting very good at the actions for rere atu. We learned some new words in te reo maori for the special places around us – our awa, maunga, puke, kokori and moana – and will continue to add to our vocabulary each week as we explore new myths and legends. We also learned two VERY long words – whakaitingia (reduce!) and hangaruatia (recycle!).

This week we look forward to our museum visit to see the Powelliphanta exhibition on Monday afternoon – we are very interested in sustainability, and can’t wait to learn all about these giant snails and what steps we need to take to protect their populations. We’ll continue with our programme in te ao kori, and this week we’ll begin to play with rakau as well as poi. Bible in Schools will take place as usual on Tuesday, with Library day on Wednesday and the COW on Thursday.

We look forward to welcoming back Mrs Jessop on Wednesday and to continuing to create our koru and kowhaiwhai patterns :)

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