30 June 2020

Celebrating Matariki #2

Tamariki did a quick 'recap' of a special time that will be celebrated in the holidays... Matariki.  

Next tamariki started with learning the Matariki Macarena. Ms van der Spuy (who did the song and dance with us) chose two leaders, Bailey and Casey for students to follow so that they can learn the actions, because these two boys were really good. 

Matua Mel then told our tamariki about today's activity... weaving!  He demonstrated the process, and away they went. It was so lovely to see tuakana/teina collaboration and tamariki using the virtues of 'Resilience', 'Helpfulness' and 'Co-operation'. Everyone manged themselves extremely well and showed great perseverance!

Here's a photo of one of the collaborative puzzles our tamariki finished. Whaea Megan very kindly displayed this on the staff room window. If you look really close, you will see tamariki names displayed on each puzzle piece that they've worked on.

29 June 2020

Celebrating Matariki #1

This week Rooms 1, 4 and 5 will be working collaboratively to learn about and celebrate Matariki. 

We started with creating a brainstorm. Some ideas were...

Matua Mel then told us the Matariki Myth about Tamarereti...


Activities for today:
1. Matariki star art

Creating collaborative puzzles (photos of these will be posted) when completed

Baking 'star' cookies

Decorating / Icing the cookies

Look at all the yummy cookies!

Eating time!