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Musician’s Day

Tēnā koutou katoa

Today we had the privilege of sharing some of our music learning from this year with our whānau and Te Tinana as our audience.  The tamariki led this themselves and chose what learning they wanted to share with you all.  We had been learning some waiata Māori – E Minaka Ana and Ka Pioioi which the tamariki wanted to perform in kapahaka costume and with moko.  We also performed a drumming piece – Seven Nations Army that Whaea Jen had been teaching us.

The proudest moment for me as their kaiako was watching their pride, passion, courage and commitment leading up to and including their performance today.

Ngā mihi nui to the whānau who were able to make it in person, our tamariki were very appreciative as was I, we know it is not easy to make these events with our busy lives.

We hope you enjoy watching these videos of our group performances and those tamariki who were brave enough to do solo performances will share to their individual blog on Friday.

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa,

Ngā taitamariki me ngā kaiako o Te Manga

Rugby, Rugby, Rugby – what we would ask our favourite players!

This week our class has been reading a shared text about the History of Rugby.

We are learning to think about questions we could ask a top rugby player if we got the opportunity to meet them.

First tamariki had to choose a top rugby player who they could ask three questions of.  We needed to think about what questions would be appropriate and that our questions did not need to be about rugby itself.

For some tamariki this was an easy task and for others this meant a little bit of online research into top rugby players.

As part of our learn, create, share kaupapa the tamariki needed to write three questions they would ask and then record these with a buddy on our class ipads.  We then use imovie to edit our recordings so we can share to our class site, class blog or individual blogs.  Below are some of our finished videos our tamariki were happy to share.

 

Tīmatanga o te rā

Kia ora e te whānau

Te Manga wanted to share with their whānau how we start our day, every day.

Tamariki take turns to begin with karakia followed by a himene then mihi followed by waiata tautoko.

We then share our Ngāi Takoto whakatauki and our Tātai Rangatira.

This term we have added to our karakia kete learning three new karakia, one to use for kai time and two others to use to start our day or a hui.  These are on our class site, we encourage you to learn alongside us.

Ma te wa,

Ngā taitamariki o Te Manga

 

Green Screen Fun

This week we have been learning all about our School Pou. We are sharing our learning in a short 3 min film using the new green screen in our classroom. We’ve filmed lots of different parts of our script and at the end of our filming we had some fun with the screen. Harley-James and Alex were away but they didn’t miss out as Whaea Deb added them in using the green screen app.

The students are all looking forward to learning more about how to use the green screen app to LEARN, CREATE and SHARE.

Our new (weedmat) green screen!

Check out our stylish walks!!!

We are Kaitiaki of our Lakes – Planting at Lake Gem

Today we went to Lake Gem to plant trees as part of the Dune Lake Restoration Project. This kaupapa aligns with our school values of Porihanga (Community and Partnership) and Kaitiakitanga (Caring for the Environment) as well as our local community curriculum focus.

It was a fabulous effort with 100 students and 20+ whanau helping. We managed to plant 1700 plants and go for a big hikoi around the lake, all before lunch! Our students were marvellous and represented Paparore School beautifully. We have been planting at the lake for years and it was lovely to have one of our former students there as part of the planting crew. We look forward to the next planting opportunity.

Karen Lucich (Summit Forests)

Dune Lakes are threatened habitats and Summit Forest has identified this site as having high conservation and recreation values. Summit aims to plant 1000 eco-source seedlings annually around Arbor Day. Seed is collected and grown by Bushland Trust at Kaitaia Intermediate School. Many schools including Pompallier, Awanui and Oruaiti have been involved over the 12 years this project has been running but Paparore School are kaitiakitanga of this area.

With everyone’s support, this wetland area has made a momentous transition from totally degraded to its now pristine state, providing habitat for threatened birds and plants and feeding clean water into Lake Ngatu. Last year Summit’s paddock to the south of Lake Gem was planted with 700 Pohutukawa seedlings expanding the project by 3 hectares.

Recently Summit Forest has installed new mountain bike access gates. Kaitaia College students are marking out a new recreational loop track to join the existing Lake Gem track through Te Hiku Forest to Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē and to the Lake Ngatu track. We were spoilt by a sunny day for planting on Friday when 1000 seedlings, mostly Kanuka (with some Karaka, Houpara, Manuka, Harakeke, Tī kōuka and Kohekohe) plus an additional 500 Pohutukawa seedlings were planted.

This is a great community effort we can all enjoy, including the birds and fish for many years to come. Thanks for your support to make this happen.

 

 

The Bug Man aka Ruud Kleinpaste Visits Paparore School

Ruud Kleinpaste is known as The Bugman. He is an expert in environmental education, championing biodiversity and biosecurity and citizen science. Ruud visited our school 10 years ago and wowed the students with all sorts of bug knowledge as well as introducing some very special creepy crawlies. He did exactly the same during our visit today.

We were enthralled to learn how every living thing is important and all living organisms have a job to do. Ruud talked to the students about the relationship between birds and dinosaurs, the fact that our everyday garden snails in NZ can be eaten (as in France) and being able to recognise when a weta is giving you a warning! An absolute highlight was meeting Dorothy the Auckland Weta. We all had the pleasure of allowing Dorothy to walk across our hands and what a wonderful feeling it was.

In the afternoon, our class was able to start work with Ruud on a bioblitz of Paparore School. We are looking at the biodiversity within our school grounds using an app called iNaturalist which is free and fun to learn with. Stay tuned to find out what we have and don’t have within our school boundary. We are already looking forward to learning more about biodiversity and the creepy crawlies that are our neighbours at school!

 

Last Day – Term 2

We had a fabulous last day of term today even though it was pouring down! The students did Free Writing Friday and then got to choose their activity. We had building, math games, writing, colouring and drawing. So many activities and so much fun! Thank you to everyone who has helped us this term, we appreciate you all. Have a happy and safe school holidays everyone!

Matariki with Te Pihi

Today we celebrated Matariki with Te Pihi in the whare. We were the tuakana and Te Pihi, our teina. It was lovely for the students to meet new friends and learn in a different space. We learnt some new tītītōrea (stick games) and waiata as well as hearing stories about Matariki. We especially loved dancing to the Stars of Matariki song.

The students listened to the story of Rona and the Moon and created black and white artwork on paper plates. It was a fabulous day and we look forward to working with Mrs Brydon, Michelle and our Te Pihi teina sometime soon!

Click on this link to find out more about Matariki on our class site.