The holidays have begun!

It's officially the holidays whanau, from today Monday 30th of March until Wednesday 15th of April. For those of you who enjoyed the first Home learning choice board, here is the second one.

                               

Handwriting practice!

Here is a link to some Youtube videos that will help you to practice your handwriting skills.

Handwriting in the NZ curriculum  

Learning at home! Learn, Create & Share!

Kia ora whanau, here is some writing prompts to get your tamiriki writing and using their amazing imaginations.

Listen to a story

David Walliams is releasing a new audio book everyday for 30 days. 

David Walliams is releasing a new audio book everyday for 30 days. 

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

                          This is a message for all of my students and their whanau.

Learning comes in all shapes and forms and I would like to see what learning you are engaging in during this time. Please share with me some of the great things that you do via email and I will put it onto the 'Learning at home' slide. It could be photo's, writing in a google doc or a video etc.

He waka eke noa! We are all in this together whanau!

Learning at home.

Each week,  I will post learning at home activity sheets. There will also be hard copies of these sheets available at school tomorrow (24th March), in the Puriri Home learning box. At the bottom of this post, is a slide presentation about websites to visit.

It would be great if  some of the learning could be shared with me and I will post it on our blog. 

If you have any questions about the learning choice boards or would like to share your learning, please email me-  kmills@owairaka.school.nz

Week #1- Choose 2 activities to do each day. 

The slide contains some learning websites that our class has been visiting.

To my students, remember our challenge. It's time now for you to be the kindest member of your household. I look forward to seeing you all soon!

New Zealand vs India- Room 22 One day Cricket

On Wednesday we had a first session with Elliot (cricket coach). We were divided into two teams and had to choose a cricketing country to represent, we picked New Zealand and India. Then we had a game of Tornado cricket. Each team had four bats (representing our lives), every player had to hit and run. It was very similar to the game of non-stop cricket.

Team New Zealand won by 2 runs, India was very close and remained in good spirits after their loss.

Player of the match- Aneesa. 

A trip back in time- Howick Historical Village visit

On Tuesday, Puriri Wha visited the Howick Historical Village. What an amazing day, filled with exciting learning opportunities.

Check out these photos..............

Activity 1: Outdoor games.

What do you notice about all of these games? What material are they made out of?

All of the objects used in these outdoor games were made out of; wood, metal and rope. Plastic hadn't been invented yet. People were very poor so they had to be very creative and resourceful. 

Do any of these games seem familiar to you?

Activity 2: Communication

There were no mobile phones back then, so how did people communicate?

             

They used............

Morse code, Semaphore and Braille communication techniques.

Activity 3: School 

Wow, things were really different then. Students typically left school at the age of 12 to get a job.
If you misbehaved, then you would receive 'six of the best'.

                                   

Thank you to all of the people that made this trip possible and to the whanau that came along with us.

Life saving water skills!

This week, we have been wearing life jackets and learning how to be safe in the water until we are rescued.  Do you know why we huddle together?

1. Safety in numbers- easier for big group of yellow reflective life jackets to be seen from a helicopter than single ones.
2. Support emotionally- we can talk to each other and keep each other calm. 
3. Warmth and protection. We learnt that the most vulnerable (elderly, very young and injured) people should be in the centre of our huddle to keep them warm.

Green/Blue week! Let's learn about our beautiful oceans and creatures that live in them.

This is our first Green/Blue week of the year and our theme is: Oceans. There are traditional daily things happening in the morning. Participate and play your part in caring for our world!

We have the swimming instructors for one more week, so please bring your togs everyday!