Celebrating Father’s Day – past, present, absent and future Dad’s. Takahēs Taniwha inspired images that the children created – with their own personalized message to honour and celebrate their special Dad! Why My Dad is Awesome by Henry Roberts Why My Dad is Awesome by Luna Sierra Vanegas Why My Dad is Awesome by […]
On August 15th, the feast of Mary’s Assumption was celebrated. As part of Tūī’s learning, they created collage pictures to show that Mary, both body and soul, was assumed into heaven. They ensured that they selected blue fabric for Mary’s cloak to represent the divinity she carried; a sacred and valuable colour. The glitter represents […]
This term Kiwi Hub has been working on persuading others as a part of our speeches. We have learnt about hooking our audience in and gaining their attention through using persuasive devices such as rhetorical questions, emotive language, rule of three and repetition, show don’t tell. We have some examples of our sizzling starts for […]
“O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee.” Sacred Heart, also called Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is celebrated on the Friday of the third week after Pentecost, devotion includes acts of consecration and honour given to the image of the Sacred Heart. The Sacred Heart of Jesus shows us God’s love and […]
Let’s fly a kite. The Pukeko children listened to the story The Seven Kites of Matariki. Following this beautiful story, we made Matariki kites out of natural materials. Kite making and flying them teaches children about science and weather patterns while developing hand and eye coordination, kinesthetic awareness and gross motor skills. Above all flying […]
Piwakawaka’s Kadinsky inspired Matariki fireworks pictures. The Piwakawaka children have been very busy this term learning about colours, in both English and te reo Maori. For our art project we decided to weave this into our science topic and explore how primary colours are mixed to form secondary and tertiary colours. The children really enjoyed […]
Moment In Time! Kakapo spent three weeks learning to write and publish some ‘Moment In Time’ pieces of work using Google Docs to publish. A ‘Moment In Time’ is like a recount but it is happening right now. We used present tense to describe what we could see, feel, smell, taste and hear. Here are […]
In Week 2, Kakariki enjoyed celebrating the King’s Coronation. The children wrote about what they would do if they were a king or a queen for the day and they made beautiful, sparkly crowns complete with glitter, scrunched tissue paper, felt tip colouring and gems. There was a lot of careful work needed to stay […]
Weka have been hard at work in preparing their gifts-with heaps of love and care-for their special mums this Mother’s Day. They enjoyed the process of being able to make a gift using recyclable materials and using their own designs to create their own unique expression of love by adding acrylic paint to brighten it up […]
In religion we have embraced Te Reo Maori and the English translation of the sign of the cross, whilst depicting the traditional cross symbol, associated with our Catholic faith. Takahe’s spectacular ‘Royal Self Portraits’ involved blending colours for the skin tone. The colour palette included white, black, brown, yellow, beige and gold. By looking at our […]
