Te Marae

Challenge Unit

Room 11 and Kauri Block are getting prepared for their marae visit this term. We will be learning marae protocol, our pepeha and about the meaning behind the different parts of a wharenui. 

You are able to see our learning units by visiting our guided reading and our Te Marae pages.

Cross Country

Vignette Writing

Room 11 has been busy writing up a storm about our cross country experience. We were inspired by the story "Cowpat Girl" written by Jessica Hemmings and used her writing as our model. Our "playing hard" learning was also incorporated into some of our writing too. We used Youblisher to publish. Click on the picture to read our ebook.

Shared Book

Swim

Retold by: Chris Szekely

Room 11 has begun a new unit of learning about Maori myths and legends. We have started by reading a legend based on a true story from Rotorua about Tutanekai and Hinemoa. After reading we decided the moral or teaching from the story was:

• never give up on your dreams or goals
• everyone needs to be loved
• love wins
• never judge a book by its cover.

To see what we will be learning visit our Shared Book page.

We Play Hard!

Room 11 has been inspired by Patricia Grace and her "Beans" story. You can visit our learning intentions on our writing page. This is just a taster. You will be able to view our other authors on the Authors' Arcade page as we were able to choose how we published our work.




We would love to hear what you think of our presentation and writing. We would also be interested in your view on how we could improve our next piece of writing and presentation.

We have already started reflecting on our learning.

Daytona said, "I didn't have enough time to read some of the slides."

Kuini-Marnie said, " There are spelling mistakes."

Mrs Stuckey said, "I can't read the text because of the colour of the font over the background."

BTBWCB

Being the Best We Can Be!

Room 11 has been keen to settle into term 3, we have been setting our goals after reflecting on our classroom and what we would like our classroom to be like. 

It's All About You!

Welcome back to term 3. We are going to start off with getting to know each other again! We will be writing bio-poems this week. Check out our writing page to get a preview of what we will be writing.

Wow Take a Look at Our Final product!

Click on the photo and it will take you to our Author's Arcade.

Pizza in Rome

Oceana, just for you. While we were in Rome we stayed in a small village about an hour away from the city. For dinner we just had to have pizza just the way the Italians do! What are the differences to our pizzas? 

 






Even 2000 years ago the Romans had take away food. In the ruins of Herculaneum archeologists found food stalls. What type of foods did they eat back then? I bet they didn't have McDonalds or KFC!