Mapping Skills

We are learning to read grids and co-ordinates.  Have a go at this activity!

Our Pepeha

This week Room 19 are learning to say a pepeha to introduce themselves. Pepeha are sayings that emphasise a person’s origins and connections with the land and their whakapapa (genealogy) conveying a great deal of meaning and cultural information.

Ko _____________________ toku waka. (canoe)
Ko _____________________ toku iwi. (tribe)
Ko _____________________ toku maunga (mountain)
Ko _____________________ toku awa (river)
Ko _____________________ toku kainga (place you live)
Ko _____________________ toku whanau (family name)
Ko _____________________ toku whaea (mother)
Ko _____________________ toku matua (father)
Ko _____________________ toku ingoa (personal name)

Term One in a nutshell

This is going to be a fantastic year for all of us!  In Term One we have a few weeks to get to know each other, and then it's time for.... Camp Merc!

Our theme is: Me and My Environment, and by Week 7 we need to have created a map of the school, with our ideas of where we want to improve it!

For Maths we will be looking at Statistics, Mapping (with Geometry), and of course strategies to solve our mapping calculations!

In Reading we are looking at a variety of Strategies to improve our comprehension.  As we are doing Narratives in Writing, we will look at some well-known Fairy Tales, and see how we go at writing our own narratives.  But... we are going to do it a bit differently... wait and see!

Of course this is also the term to sign up for all the exciting extra-curricular activities that our school has to offer - Remember, at the end of the year you get to go on the Service to Schools outing, so Go For It!, and keep happy and healthy by being really involved in our School life!  (I hope a whole bunch of you will be joining my Choir!)

Have a great Term!

Mrs T.