Our Kapa Haka Group at Koanga Festival on Saturday at Sommerville Intermediate

Tino pai Sophie - it was a wonderful performance!

Syndicate Assembly

One of our Drama groups performed in Assembly on Friday and did an awesome job of presenting Maui and the Sun to the Middle Syndicate and teachers. They had made props and worked on using music. Great contribution everyone. Thanks to Miss Stuhlmann who has been teaching us this week about Drama.

Patterns in culture

Hello Terrific 20's whanau and friends
We are beginning our Inquiry into Many Cultures - One land.

I know the children have been researching their families with the Interview Questions they brought home Monday Last Week! They are due by this Friday so that we can begin to use this research in our Inquiry into our own culture. Thank you for helping us in our research.

For Maths this week we will be exploring the patterns that are distinct to different cultures. If you have any examples of these in your home can you please lend them to us for a day? As an example they could be a tablecloth, bowl, scarf, gameboard, picture, tile, tapa cloth, sarong. Please talk about the pattern and write a little description so that your child can read or talk about it with us all. Or if you prefer we would love it if you came into school and described it to us!

We will be learning about patterning, direction, geometry, scale, area, perimeter, rotation, symbolism, making templates and drawing, 

Kia Ora 

Mrs T

Our class environment is filling up fast lots of action and doing in Room 20

The CEO of the day sits here - Mrs T's right hand person!

The Round Seat is for the PA who is invaluable to Mrs T and the CEO. The wobbly seats are for those chosen by the CEO who can wobble and wibble as much as they like!

Congratulations to all our Triathletes who competed in the WeetBix Triathlon on the Weekend - you are great ambassadors for our school!

Alex and Lockie are caring for our Tiger Worms at the moment! The Staff room worm bin and Middle Syndicate Worm Bin are emptied into here along with water and shredded card. 

It's a dirty job and you have to be brave with those tiger worms roaring at you! Such brave Eco Warriors!

Here is our Korowai all complete with feathers describing what a member of Whanau 20 needs to be. Underneath are our Whare with Kowhaiwhai patterns chosen to surround photos of our Whanau pictures. 

We all have a role to play in our class and these are important roles for everyone to take responsibility for. Use your initiative and be self managing.