The Presentation

For Social studies Room 1 has been studying Early Maori life. We learnt so much we felt that we had to share it with our parents. So on the 17 of September 2009 we hosted a Social studies night. 100 people came!
It was a marvellous event.

We showed the parents our BOB HERE claymation movie we made in Term 2. We made the movie in ONLY 2 WEEKS! You can see it further down our Blog if you want to.
The parents were hugely impressed.

Next was our Gingerbread Photo Story - this showed pictures of our gingerbread baking - part of our maths unit on Measurement.
One small child in the audience said "Awwww - that's beautiful", and we all laughed!

We have 9 kapahaka students in our class. They dressed up in our school's precious piupiu and sang and performed Haere Mai to introduce our Early Maori Life part of the presentation.
Then we presented our Early Maori Life slide shows. They were fantastic.
One of the students didn't have any of her group there but she was very brave and presented it by herself. She did a great job.
We finished the night off with our teacher, MooDeb's fantastic last speech.
The parents want us to have presentation evenings more often!

Our next challenge is to convert our Powerpoint presentations into Moviemaker so we can play them here on our Blog. We also have some photos.... good things take time!
(Luckily we have an expert in our class - Maadom!)

Made By MosSam, MaaDom GORTHO , WhaAly and Glenview1

Kaimoana work sheet

In Term 3 we have been learning about Early Maori Life for Social Studies.

Our reading programme has been excellent - we have chosen articles to read out of Journals all about Maori life.

This is one of the worksheets we have done, after we finished our buddy reading. We have been learning to write proper sentences using key words from the question and the text.

Meeting the All Blacks

On Monday the 7 of September 2009, OneCod, FisCal and HilJay

went to the waikato stadium to see the All Blacks train for their

upcoming game. Everyone got signatures from the All Blacks.

To see The All Blacks websites and more click the following links.

http://www.richie-mccaw.blogspot.com/

http://www.dancarter.co.nz/

http://www.allblacks.com/

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OneCod, FisCal and HilJay

Apple paintings

Late Last tearm we learnt to paint apples.

It has taken us THIS LONG to get some

pictures up on our blog-here they are...

(there are more coming too)

How To Make a Sundial

Our (which is On'eCod, Mormit GORTHO and On'e Cab) extention maths group has made a sundial for our time study.

• First we put a stick in the ground.
• We drew a circle around the stick.
• Then we numberd the hours around the stick.

After you have done this you watch the shadow move to the hours you have drawn.

We tried it and we have to say that it was a grand sucess!