Our tapa treasures

Using what we know about patterns and colours of traditional tapa, we have created some of our own tapa artwork using crayon and dye.

Term 4 - a new focus

After our two week holiday, some quiet thinking time while sketching our classroom globe during SSD to start off our term.  What will we be learning about this term?  Where in the world is our focus?  Well, our big inquiry question is "How have the people of the Pacific passed on their cultural traditions over time?

Tomorrow we will begin finding out what we already know and what else we would like to find out about.  Ka kite apopo!

Azonto, Azonto

Skipping, stepping, slapping, clapping ... we danced our way very quickly around the Commonwealth showing our moves and skills to family and whanau visitors this afternoon. If you'd like to see the video, please come and watch in our classroom ... Now watch me do my Azonto, Azonto, Azonto ...

Cross-country 2014

Thank you, Nelly, for creating our audio.

Reading about photographs

The blue reading group experimented taking photographs and filming with our tablet after they had discussed a School Journal article about Kiwi photographer, Adrian Heke. Adrian taught himself how to use his first camera and has since taken photographs in war zones, as well as capturing sporting action shots for some School Journal articles.  There must have been a lot of photographers at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to capture all of that sporting action.   

Haere rā!

Farewell, Paulo!  Room 10 wishes you the best of luck as you embark on your journey to a new school in Wellington.  Keep working hard.  We will miss you in Room 10.  Ka kite anō!