Paddle Boarding

Te Manga, Te Puawai and Te Kauru walked to lake ngatu to paddle board and have fun. We walked to get energised for paddle boarding. The first thing that all of us did was have a nibble. 

Mad About Science

 WALT predict and explain what is happening during our science experiments

On Friday 2020 Term 4 my class, Te Manga did some cool experiments. The experiments were Crawling colours, Lava in a cup and Magic milk.

Magic Milk:

You need something that you can hold milk in like a wide container or even a dinner plate and a small skewer. You also need milk, a few different food colouring colours and dish-washing liquid.

1. Get your container or your plate then pour your milk out just below the lip on the plate or half way of the container.

2. Put one drop of each food colouring into the milk.

3. Then get your skewer dip it into the dish-washing liquid then dip it in your milk and watch the magic happen.

https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/magic-milk-a-classic-science-experiment-for-kids/.

Lava In A Cup

You have to have two see through cup, plastic is best. You also need Salt, Oil, Water and food colouring is optional.

Pour your oil slowly into your cup of water then sprinkle salt into the cup then watch and find out what will happen.

Crawling Colours

Whaea Gee

 In 2020 a new teacher named Whaea Gee came to my class every Wednesday. 

Whaea Gee would take one group of children to do science with bugs, some drama or even dancing. One of my favourite thing that I did with Whaea Gee was drama because I really like acting. Whaea Gee came to learn how to be an awesome teacher, I think she was better than awesome. 

Sailing The Pacific

SJ P2 No3 2003 

- Sailing the Pacific

We are learning about traditional sailing and navigation methods used by early Polynesian voyagers.

Activity 1 - WALT locate, identify, select and present relevant information.

Traditional Pacific Navigators found land by looking for signs like clouds, birds, stars and ocean swells. 

Use the text to help you complete the table about traditional Pacific navigation tools. The first one has been done for you.

Clouds

Clouds moving across the sky slow down when they pass over land

The colour of the clouds would change if they were above land.

Birds

Watching these birds the Shearwater and Godwit helped to lead voyagers to land because they migrate on land. 

Stars 

At night, certain stars always rise and set at the horizon. 

Ocean Swells

Ocean swells, or other unusual movements in the water, could be a sign that land was near. 

Activity 2 - Read about the tirito ‘etu (or starpeeker)

The tirito ‘etu (or starpeeker) is a navigating instrument from the Cook Islands. It was made from an empty coconut shell with holes drilled in it. Water was filled to the level of the lower ring of holes. This helped to keep it lined up with the horizon as the boat moved up and down in the waves. The navigator looked through two of the holes until the reflection of a particular star came into view. The holes were positioned so that the star could be seen only when the vaka was directly east or west of its destination.

Activity 3 - The Vaka

Use the text to help you answer the following questions about ‘The Vaka’

What type of natural materials were used to build the vaka?

Two hulls made from many long planks carefully stitched together with cord made from coconut fibre. Their sails were often woven from pandunus leaves. 

How long was Kupe’s vaka and how many people could it carry?

Some of these ocean going vaka could carry up to 150 people. Kupe’s vaka may have been up to 21 metres long. 

What supplies were often carried on board?

Dried bananas, taro, breadfruit, coconut and fish. 

Raranga Matahiko Waitangi Visit

The second time my class ,Te Manga went to Waitangi we all made atleast one pou each. My pou represents all of the challenges that people had to go through in their Waka. Before we went all of us played chain tag on the giant field just outside Waitangi. 

Kūaka

 We are learning to use visual language features to support our understanding of the ideas and information in the text. 

I really liked making this poster and being creative with it. The part that I found tricky was finding words out of the book for a vocabulary sheet. 

Raranga Matahiko

On the first week of term three 2020 my class called Te Manga and me drove in a bus, it was not any bus though it was an amazing bus that took my whole class on a tiki-tour all the way to Waitangi from Paparore school! As soon as the bus pulled in  to Waitangi I was over excited. When I jumped out of the bus I saw Whaea Keri, she took us to the class we were going in. We all had a korero waiting for Whaea Kristina to come into the classroom. The people that were in my group was Grace, Zana and me. The first thing my group did is book creater, the next thing that we did was called Virtual Reality. 

This is a picture of me at the V.R .

My favourite thing about going to Waitangi was doing sculpt GL.