My Postcard poem- Anagram

This week we have been learning about parts of speech. We learnt about Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs to helps us write our poems. It was a challenge because we could only use a certain amount of words per line. We also tried to use synonyms to make our poems more interesting. Do you know what a synonym is? It is a word or a phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word/phrase. For example; big= enormous.

Poem written by Mohamad and Haider

Cultural Unity Day

What a wonderful day we had at Owairaka District School today. In our hall we had over 30 different flags on display, representing all of the different cultures in our school. Thank you to Amani, Abdi, Haider, Nuradiin and Nicholas for sharing a brief korero about their culture. Mahina created a learning presentation and became a tuakana to us all. Here is her wonderful presentation.

Thank you to Hamida for teaching us how to play Lape- a Samoan game and Room 23 for playing with us. 

Taste of the Pacific- Garden to Table

In Garden to table today, the Room 25 students prepared foods from many different Pacific cultures. We prepared; Sapasui- Island Chop Suey, Shimpal's Takihi and Koko Alaisa (Cocoa Rice). Needless to say that all of the children and yes, the adults were very quiet during eating time. The only words we said were "Can you please pass the.......", "Yummy" and "Thank you".

 

If you would like to prepare a delicious and nutritious meal for your whanau, then visit the Garden To Table blog for recipes. Garden To Table at Owairaka District School

Pangram

Hi. Last week we were learning to write a pangram. A pangram is a story with all the letters of the alphabet. It was fun because it was challenging. It was difficult because we didn't have much information about the video so we really had to think. Next we will be working on checking our work and our punctuation.

Energy- where does it come from?

On Monday morning, Kauri classes visited Esther in the hall to listen to a korero about energy.
We learnt a lot about all of the different sources of energy we use and the impact it has on our world.
SUSTAINABILITY was an important focus of our discussion and also gaining a better understanding of natural ways in which we can generate electricity.

Can you guess what natural source of energy we are using to make the helicopter propeller spin? Is this type of energy sustainable?

What source of energy is this? Clue: windy days are the best. Both Luke and Mohamad were doing their very best to make the windmill/propeller spin as fast as it could to generate electricity to light up the bulb.