Celebrating Matariki

We celebrated Matariki (Maori New Year) by taking part in lots of fun activities like planting, kite making and cooking.

Matariki is the Maori name for a group of seven stars known as the Pleiades.  Some people think of Matariki as a mother star with six daughters, and it is often referred to as the Seven Sisters.  Matariki appears in the eastern sky around the shortest day of the year.  We worked as a team, to make roasted kumara to share with our whanau (family).  

    Did you see Matariki in the sky, while you enjoyed eating the kumara?

Peeling the kumara.

Liam chops the kumara ready for washing.

Blake and Matthew are great peelers!

                                                                       

Sophie is concentrating really hard!

Matthew adds the notice to his kumara pack

Mmmmm... the kumara smell yummy!

Aayush is putting his kumara in the tin foil. 

                                

Kapa Haka!!

Room 12 loves singing, dancing and learning Te Reo when we go to Junior Kapa Haka on Tuesday afternoons.  

Whaea Tearani has been teaching us greetings, days of the week and parts of the body.  The girls sing sweetly and the boys do Ka Mate fiercely like the All Blacks.  Tino pai rawa Room 12!!

Arts Week

In Week 6 Sunnyhills School took part in an Arts Week celebration.  

We visited teachers in other classes to take part in drama, visual art and music activities.  During lunchtimes we watched teachers, students and other visitors to the school perform or share their art.  We visited Mrs Dowden the Music Specialist at Sunnyhills and had fun with bubbles, balloons and musical instruments. We joined in with the Story Teller who visited the Junior School.  We looked at the amazing Wearable pieces of artwork created by a local artist. In our class we used clay to make creatures we might find in our edible garden.  

Arts Week was fun!!

 

           

 

 

 

 

 
 

AUTUMN

WALT: Share idea about what happens in Autumn

What we did:

We went for walks around our school to collect leaves

We did leaf rubbings on the concrete outside

We made hedgehogs using leaves for the prickles

We listened to Miss S read stories about Autumn

We made toadstools using paint and cotton wool

We brainstormed our ideas about what happens in Autumn

We put all our ideas and artwork together to make a mural using paint, paintbrushes, sponges and our hands

You can take a look at our mural on display in our class. We hope you like it!

                    

                     

ANZAC DAY

Room 12 listened to stories about the people and horses that went to war to keep our country safe. We made poppies to remember those soldiers that died. We went to visit the crosses outside the office.  We felt very lucky to be safe and sad that people died at war.

Term 2 Weeks 1-11

This was a very busy term for Room 12.  

We welcomed 16 new members to our class: James, Natasha, Rhys, Tayla, Matt, Xiqi, Evan, Daniel, Aayush, Blake, Matthew, Srinitha, Kiera, Kaya, Sophie and Ethan.

We are so happy to have all our friends together in Room 12.