Whanau Challenge - Term 3

Our concept for this term is 'Challenge.'  The key questions are:  What challenges me?  What challenges others?  How could I respond to a challenge?  How do these challenges help me to learn and grow?  The two enduring understanding statements include:  1.  We learn and grow by facing challenges with courage, persistence and resilience; 2.  The sacraments give us the spiritual nourishment to face challenges.  As an immersion activity, Kauri whanau completed a series of challenging activities, these included:  hockey skills, leap frog lily pad, trust games, and a blindfold activity.  The children were placed into different groups and enjoyed helping each other in a challenging and fun environment.  Tino pai nga tamariki and kaiako!

Diamante Poems

A 'diamante poem' is a poem in a shape of a diamond.  Each line uses specific types of words, like adjectives and -ing words.  It does not have to rhyme.
Structure:
1. Beginning Topic
2. Adjective, adjective (about the topic)
3. -ing word, -ing word (about the topic)
4.  Four nouns - or - a short phrase (about the beginning and ending topics)
5.  -ing word, -ing word (about the topic)
6.  Adjective, adjective (about the topic)
7.  Ending Topic

Holiday Personal Recounts

Dominoes

Future 'NZ Turbo Touch' Players

The whistle went the ball droped on the ground. It's tap and pass. People shouting, ''Please pass the ball."

It's spitting, but were still trying.  Finally, the yellow team got a try!!  Room 15 LOVES turbo touch!!!  We would like to play again.

Yay, we're on the field still trying to get a try. Yellow team try to block because the blue team have the ball. Finally, the yellow team get the ball. We are racing off to get a try!

By Tayla (Blog Reporter)

Patterns and Shapes in Dutch (By Mrs. Huskens)

Our Goals for Term 2

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Last week, the children wrote their goals for the term.  They looked at some of their assessment i.e., basic facts, writing sample, knowledge and strategy maths test, etc.  The children had to decide on a curriculum subject, a social goal (from the school motto) and a key competency goal.  They needed to be specific in their goal; they then decided on a 'next step' on how they were going to achieve that particular goal.