Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Te Reo Kori

We are learning to use Te Rakau for the stick song 'E papa Waiari'.

Here are the lyrics if you want to practice:

E papā Waiari,
Taku nei mahi
Taku nei mahi,
He tuku roimata

Chorus:
Ē aue, ka mate au;
E hine hoki mai rā
Ē aue, ka mate au;
E hine hoki mai rā

Māku e kaute
Ō hīkoitanga
Māku e kaute
Ō hīkoitanga

(Translation:O Elder Waiari
1. O elder Waiari my habit has been My habit has been to shed tears
Chorus:Alas I will die; oh girl, return to meAlas I will die; oh girl, return to me
2. I will count your footsteps I will count your footsteps )



Monday, July 27, 2009

Food- What we know so far

Today we were looking at what we already know about food. We were learning about the different food groups and had a very "noisy round robin" to see how many foods we could put under each food group. Using wall wisher we brainstormed all our ideas about what we know about food so far.
Check out all our ideas!

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Multiples of 4

We've found that there is a pattern with the Multiples of 4. Now we can race through them to 100 very quickly.(0,4,8,12,16,20,24...etc)
Brittany has managed to be as quick as 13 seconds! Awesome Brit!
How fast can you do it in?

0,4,8,2,6,0,4,8,2,6,0,4,8,2,6,0,4,8,2,6,0,4,8,2,6,0
Time yourself! Click on the green arrow here for a stop watch.



Get a Stopwatch like this or make your own! At: Online Stopwatch

Friday, July 17, 2009

Term 3 Inquiry- Food Under the Microscope

Looking forward to some great questioning and inquiring going on with our topic of FOOD this term.
Let's become Food Scientists!

Friday, July 3, 2009

National Parks of NZ

Here is our Voicethread we made which shows what we learned about the National Parks of NZ. We have also included why they are a treasure to New Zealand

NB: This is work in progress. Learning as we go! Come back for more!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Treasure Brainstorm









We've come across Bubbl.us and have put together a brainstorm of our Treasure Inquiry. Unfortunately it feels like we've only scratched the surface of this! There is so much more we could have looked into!Just hold your mouse button down and drag the brainstorm around to read it all! (Another 1st for us!)