Friday Afternoon Board Game Bonanza!!

Each Friday afternoon this term we are playing a variety of traditional board games!  The aim of the game-excuse the pun is cooperation, team work and turn taking, with a little fun mixed in. What a great afternoon!  What’s your favourite board game at home? 

PrEP has begun!!

The first week of PrEP has flown by!  What some fantastic ventures we have in Mamaku Hub this year.  Really looking forward to following these ventures and seeing how successful their businesses are.

WestaMaths fun

Today Mamaku Hub had a fantastic afternoon in the Hall with a WestaMaths type competition of problem solving.  We had 20 teams of 4 people in each team testing our maths brains. What a fun afternoon!!  Big thanks to Miss Power from Totara Hub for organising this afternoon, it was awesome!! 

Respecting Our Environment

Over this term we have had a  major focus in our values on showing respect.  Respect to Self, Respect to Others and Respect for our Environment.  Over the past 2 weeks we have been focused on how we can show respect for our environment.  Mrs O challenged us to produce a short video clip demonstrating how we can show respect for ours.  We accepted the challenge and together with M2 we produced this blockbuster production!  We're so impressed with how it turned out! 
We use an app called Clips to film it - super easy - give it a try.

The Cay Movie Trailers

Check out our budding movie makers with their first attempt at making movie trailers based around the novel we were reading "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor. We loved this experience and are keen to make more!
   

Raft Making - The Cay

As part of our novel study on The Cay by Theodore Taylor we decided to build rafts as Phillip and Timothy had been adrift at sea on the Caribbean.  For us to be successful at this activity we sat together and co-constructed a success criteria together so that we were all working towards the same goals.  Wow - what a hugely fantastic morning - so much planning, discussion, risk taking and re modelling!  And the best part of it was that they all floated!  Super exciting!  Well done M1 Literacy - you were amazing!!!

Winnie the Witch

If you get a chance pop on in and check out Mamaku Hubs Book Character Door/whole class! It looks amazing. The kids have put their heart and soul into it! So proud of them!! 

Mamaku Science Fair

We had a fantastic morning on Friday for our Science Fair. Lots of great discussion and discoveries being made. A huge thank you to all those who popped in through the morning to celebrate our learning. 

Ice Cream Making

A huge thanks to school kit for the opportunity to participate in the ice cream kit!  We had so much fun creating our breakfast ice creams!  There were lots of ‘interesting’ flavours but some of our favourites were maple syrup and bacon, honey and oats and pineapple!  I am sure there will be lots of holiday ice cream creating going on! 

End of a Term 1

What a fantastic way to end what’s been a very busy term!  Between cyclones, camps, swimming sports and Easter we have managed to fit it a bit of learning too!!  Roll on term 2 where we have for ngers cross d for minimal interruptions 😊 

NZ Get Writing

This morning we unpacked our NZ get writing box with Mrs Clark.  We were very excited to see what it contained!!  We have found out that we are writing to Room 23 at Papatoetoe South School.  We have done a little bot of research and discovered that they are very similar to us in some way i.e they have a Kapa Haka and their uniform looks a bit like ours.  But they are different to us too, they don't have Year 7 and 8's at their school.  We can't wait to receive their postcards and we are excited to get going with ours.  

Arthurs Pass Camp 2018

At the beginning of this week Mamaku 1 spent a fantastic 3 days in the Alpine environment of Arthurs Pass.  We swum in Lake Brunner, walked the Devils Punchbowl Track, experienced river crossing, walked the Arthurs Pass walkway, completed a Search and Rescue mission to find 'Brian', walked the sensory trail through the forest, orientated out way through the village to complete a challenge.  We had a fantastic time and have made some fantastic memories to share with you!