Mexican Hat Dance!

We did the Mexican Hat Dance as part of our inquiry. We made our own sombreros using a paper cup and hat. After we decorated our hats, Vanessa and Nicole showed us how to do the Mexican Hat Dance. We had so much fun! We got quite puffed and had lots of giggles. Keep an eye out for our performance of the Mexican Hat dance at our assembly in a couple of weeks.

WAL: Our bonds to 10

Our Whetu maths group have been working hard on learning their number bonds to 10. 

We made a rainbow with all the ways we can make 10. Our rainbow works from either end, for example 0+10 = 10 and 10+0 = 10.

They then practiced by playing matching up our number bond eggs. They were so much fun to match together! They could check using multi-link cubes or our rainbow.

 

Awesome work Whetu! You really are stars! I liked how hard you worked to match all the eggs. 

Our medal winners!!

Congratulations for getting a medal for showing your beautiful manners at assembly Keira and Alessandra! I am so proud of you both!! 

NED!

Today we saw the Ned show starring Gary and Ned! They entertained us and taught us some VERY important messages. 

After the show, we put on our yellow hats to think of the good/positive messages from the show that we need to remember:

- I liked how put the tissue in his mouth and it came out colourful. When you try hard at something and you make a mistake, you can always work hard to fix it up (Jacob)

- I liked when the balloon popped because it was funny and it showed that mistakes can happen all the time and it’s not big deal (Bryah)

- We learned to:

Never give up

Encourage others

Do your best! (Benjamin)

We liked the Red and white string. The white string was the teacher and the red string was the kids. The white string had a knot which represented knowledge. Gary made it so the red and white string tangled together and the knot moved from the white string (teacher) to the child/student (Keira)

WALT: Become independant learners

Check out our Kahurangi group reading by themselves in the library. The most independent learners from our papatuanuku junior team get to go to read in the library. Fantastic work Keira and Angus! Vanessa is super proud of you!

 

RSS Games

We had a fantastic day representing Atta’s country of Pakistan for the RSS Games.

Here we are with our Pakistani flag headbands:

We were put into mixed teams with others in the papatuanuku based on our ethnicity and competed for medals by relating to others, having fun and mana motuhake. 

All of us participated in gymnastics, gumboot throwing, weightlifting, boxing, soccer, fencing, bowls, running races and stick games. 

Congratulations to Australia (room 8) for winning gold, the Philippines (room 10) for winning silver and Japan (room 7) for winning bronze.  

Here are some photos of us in action:

RSS Junior Sports - Video Maker