We're all in this together - Manaiakalani film festival entry

In Room 3, we enjoy going to school to see each other, to have fun and dance dance dance! But all that changed during lockdown. Check out our creative solution to this dancing dilemma by watching our film entry into the 2021 Manaiakalani film festival.

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!

Cook Island dancing

Te Epetoma o te reo Māori Kuki Airani 2021

We celebrated Cook Island Language week at Tāmaki Primary School by dancing and singing. The performers are students from all over the Junior School. Check out our video's below. 

 

 

The Olympic Games

Olympic fever has hit Room 3! We are learning about the Olympics and participated in an activity called Double Bounce. This game encourages us to play and display the Olympic value of Excellence. We all gave it our very best and eventually found our six medalists. 

Bronze Medalists (Right): John-Nelson and Anthony.

Silver Medalists (Left): Puanesi and Tasola.

Gold Medalists (Middle): Sofya and Jorjah.

Smiles for the Olympic games.

 

Matariki Stars

Check out our diamond Matariki stars! Acacia, Kahlani and AJ are holding their awesome stars made from shapes. Can you see the shapes we used to make ours stars? At Tāmaki Primary School we are looking forward to celebrating Matariki by colouring pictures and learning Te Reo Māori. We love stars because it's nice and bright in the night sky.

Kahlani, Acacia and AJ shining bright like stars!

Gardening and bugs!

We went exploring in the garden today. The worm farm had lots of creepy crawlies including centipedes and snails! We were digging holes in the ground and planting seeds to grow. We love being outside in the garden and being good kaitiaki.

 

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!

Easter Egg Hunt

 

We love Easter in Room 3. We were so lucky to have an Easter Egg hunt at school today. This is the photo we took at the end holding up our chocolate eggs! Thank you to the school leaders who put this together.

Dancing is FUN!

 

In Room 3, we are learning to dance with Miss Rebecca. We love having fun while we learn.

We are working as a team

 We are so clever! We are good at puzzles.