Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori - Māori Language Week started this week and room 13 has been busy learning ngā kupu (the words). This year Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori introduces Te Kupu o Te Wiki - The Word of the Week, 50 words over 50 weeks. Follow the link below to watch the videos we have started to make while learning ngā kupu:

http://maoriatmuritai.pbworks.com/w/page/79830935/Te%20Wiki%20o%20te%20Reo%20M%C4%81ori

Let's Celebrate!

Today we started exploring our inquiring into topic, Let's Celebrate! Our Big Idea is that “Participation in family, cultural and community celebrations brings people closer together”. We created a list of the celebrations that we participate in and another list of the other celebrations that we know about, then talked about the reasons we do these celebrations. Here's a wee taster of what we did.

Syndicate Assembly Week1

Welcome Back!!!

·      A special welcome to Mrs. BorgonjeJ

Overview of the term given

·      Howie Values – Commitment and Self Confidence

Road Patrol

·      Thank you for your continued service.  Remember to be on time for duty.

Peer Mediators

·      There is a new timetable for term 3.

Waterpolo

·      The after school competition begins this Wednesday

CZ Hockey

·      Trials next week

Dance Splash

·      Our Kapa Haka roopu will be participating in this years ‘Dance Splash’ at the Michael Fowler Centre. Practices will be on Thursdays after lunch.

Some sound advice…

·      “Be good, get involved and work hard”

Speech Finals

A HUGE congratulations Evie! Supreme winner of this years speech finals. Congratulations also to Finlay Clark for winning the Year 5 speeches. 

This years competition was to a very high standard with a wide variety of interesting speech topics. Well done to all those who entered. Here are the speeches from the two girls that represented room 13 Sam and Evie. Great stuff girls!

Kapa Haka'ing up a storm

Wow what a night! After an awesome performance by our Kapa Haka roopu I'm truly spent. Well done to all the students from room 13 and the other classes for putting up a very polished and high quality performance. It was a fantastic night starting at school with group dinner, travelling by bus to Walter Nash, watching the other schools perform and then finally getting to show what we could do. Bring on 2015!

Gymnastics

This term for physical education the students of room 13 have been improving their coordination, flexibility, confidence and skill in the different disciplines of gymnastics. Some students were filmed showing what they could do.

Also as a final performance piece the students were put into groups and created a routine that showed off their abilities. Here they are:

The Sound of Taonga Pūoro

Over the last few days room 13 has been exploring a number of taonga pūoro, Māori instruments that utilise the voice of Tawhirimatea (god of the wind). We made porotītī (left) and purerehua (right). It was a real learning experience as we worked with different sizes, shapes and string types.

It's all about the money.

Today in Room 13 we had a visit from Vane from the ASB get wise programme. He was teaching us how to be financially literate. He talked to us about ways we could earn money and how we could save money.

Ways to earn:
Chores
Neighbourhood Jobs
Sell and Trade
Business

Words of wisdom:
"Saving is like training, the earlier you start the better you get"
"Eftpos Card: You can only take out the amount of money you put in"
"Credit Cards: Money belongs to the bank, which you have to pay back and you get charged interest"
"When spending my money this is what I do, spend some on you and save some too. Yeah!" 

Syndicate Assembly Week 7

Inter-zone Cross Country

·      Training on Wednesday and Friday @ 12.30pm

·      Notices to be returned to Mr. McKay ASAP

Building site (NEW library)

·      Make sure you stay clear of the building site.  There may be vehicles coming in and out of the school grounds as well, so keep an eye out when in the playground

ICAS Spelling

·      Due to the CZ Football tournament being postponed we will have the ICAS Spelling test after lunch today

FINISHING

·      Make sure you are ‘finishing’ all of your tasks so that you have lots of wonderful work to show your parents at the ‘Celebration of learning’ evening, which is in the last week of the term.

Wet weather

·      Just a reminder about choosing sensible inside activities during wet playtimes and lunchtimes.  No swapping of classrooms allowed.

Visitor

·      Each Y5/6 class will be having a visit from Vane, ASB financial literacy, on Thursday.  Remember to display our Muritai School value of ‘Respect’ when he is here with us.

Kapa Haka performance group

·      Return notices to Mr. Chadwick ASAP

·      Bring a plastic bag to school so that a ‘uniform pack’ can be put together

CZ Football

·      Training on Wednesday at lunchtime.  Bring your full kit (boots, shin guards etc.)

·      CZ Tournament now to be held on Thursday due to postponement

HOWIE Value awards

·      Congratulations to the following students who received a ‘Curiosity’ award today:  Sophia Cave, Ruby Wells, Luke Thompson and Sandy Ross

Science of Sound

One of the tasks for last weeks home learning was to create an instrument that had 2 or more differing pitches. The challenge in class this week was then to combine the different instrument sounds into a Orchestra. We had to have some quick learning about the types of instruments present in an orchestra and why they are grouped as they are into Wind, Strings and Percussion. We then grouped our selves and followed the basic instructions of our conductor to create the following rendition of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

Syndicate Assembly Week 6

·      Countdown cards

There have been some issues surrounding the ‘trading’ of these cards at school.  We ask that you keep the cards at home.

·      Central Zone Cross Country

The CZ cross-country event has been postponed till Thursday because of the weather conditions

·      Inside Play

-We will be having some wet weather throughout the rest of the term and it will be important that you choose ‘sensible and quiet activities’ while inside during playtime
and lunchtime

-There is to be NO swapping of classrooms during inside playtime and lunchtimes

·      Library Awards

Congratulations to Rachel Vass who has received the GOLD library award

·      Kapa Haka

The Kapa Haka performance group will be performing at Randwick School in a couple of weeks in preparation for the interschool Kapa Haka event at the end of the term.

·      ‘Crazy Looms’

There have been a lot of students bringing the ‘crazy loom’ bands to school, which is fine.   However they have been a bit of a distraction for a few students.  If the ‘crazy loom’ bands become too much of a distraction, then we will ask that they be kept at home.

·      40hour Famine

Any booklets and money is to be returned to the office ASAP

·      HOWIE Value Awards

Congratulations to the following students who received the CURIOSITY award today: Chelsea Summers, Saxon Forbes and Charlotte McFarlane