Stories by Junior

This has been Junior's week. He's a machine and is DESTROYING his learning during lockdown.😀 Junior has written a story about his weekend and used sequence words to make sure that his ideas are in the right order. He answered questions about a story he read and wrote them down for us to enjoy. And just when you think he's finished, he writes an amazing story about cooking....whaaaaaaaaat!?💥👏  Junior is amazing!

Ka rawe Junior! 👌😀 At this rate, I'm going to have to change the name from Room 3's Blog to Junior's Writing Blog! 😆 Thank you for sharing your awesome mahi!

Welcome to Term 4

We have enjoyed our first week of Term 4. We did lots of online learning and even had Reading and Math workshops! Some of us sent photos of our learning to share with everyone. Check them out below.

Uasi has been practising Phonics. Uasi would listen for a word. He would break the word up into chunks of sound and then write those letter sounds into his book. Fantastic stuff Uasi!

Junior shared his Challenge Tuesday activity. The task on Tuesday was to construct a self-portrait using materials from home. Junior cleverly used fruit, vegetables and a table to make his self-portrait. Very creative Junior, excellent job!

This week, we started learning about the Seasons for our Inquiry topic. AJ spent Friday morning writing a story about a Summer beach trip. Thanks for your mahi AJ!

Online Learning

Learning from home

Tāmaki Makaurau might be operating at Alert Level whā, but rūma toru is not slowing down with our mahi!  

Ana (rūma toru) and her sister Alayna (rūma rua) are thinking about Maths. Their awesome mum helped them make the learning activities you see below. Ana and Alayna have to match the number with the word, and then place those numbers in the right order. Tino pai rawa atu! 

 

Not only are they Maths wizards, but they are also experts in Phonics. They are reading words, making the initial letter sound and matching it with the correct letter of the alphabet. Ka wani kē!

As if that wasn't cool enough, the superstar John Nelson is back to share some more work he's been doing at home. John Nelson has been practicing writing words in his book. He focused really hard on forming his letters correctly, even spacing and spelling the words correctly. Ka rawe John Nelson!

Room 3 Rūkau

In Room 3, we read the Cook Island Māori book "Rūkau nō te rā 'ānau'anga" (Birthday Rūkau).
Rūkau is a special dish from the Cook Islands. It is made with taro leaves, corned beef, onion and coconut cream. 

After reading the book, we made rūkau the way Moana and Papa Tere made it in the book.

When it had been cooked, we wrote down some instructions so everyone could make it. We even got to eat the delicious rūkau. It was yummy, yummy, yummy!