Tawa School Room 14 (2019)

The week started with a pōwhiri to welcome all our new students, families and teachers to the school. Room 14 were extremely lucky to welcome 11 new students to the class this week. Aaminah, Arn, Avery, Israel, Liam, Mason, Nana, Osharne,Paige, Roniel, Sasha. It was great how the students used investigation time to make connections. The students enjoyed making playdough and rainbow rice.   We started our swimming lessons this week led by EasySwim.    For Friday arts we created name caterpillars. First of all we completed the How many letters in my name? sheet, to help us find out how many letters were in our name. We then created a caterpillar with a red face and a green body to represent each letter in our names.

It has been a very busy final two weeks of the term.  We continued with our Matariki celebrations by making finger dot paintings, Matariki lanterns and describing what makes us a star. We had our final football sessions in week 9. Where we were learning about how to shoot a ball into the goal. Friday arts have been full of great imaginative art. Students have created Gerald the Giraffe pictures inspired by our Life Education truck visit. We made Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree's inspired by the story. We also looked at how we could make a mysterious bird by using pastels and lines. We have also had lots of fun investigating at the craft table. We have created rockets that blast off into the sky. Floating boats using skewers and cut up flutter boards. Puppets using wooden spoons and craft materials. We had fun investigating the school robots. The students were set a challenge to build a obstacle course to guide the robot throug...