The Arts Celebration

Another exciting week working our performances for the Arts Celebration. Tautoru have been dialing up their teamwork and creativity while helping to paint, glue and tie things together.

The costumes are looking great and we have even had time to make masks too.

 

Centennial Reserve visit.

 

Centennial Reserve visit.

We had a great day exploring and learning in the bush on Friday. We were so impressed with how everyone walked down with excited conversations and made it back after a big day with time to spare for Golden Time!

We had groups sketching, exploring the bush, searching for pests and more !  Everyone had fun getting their shoes muddy.

We are so lucky to have the bush so close to school. The students really enjoyed spending time in nature and making deeper connections to our learning in the classroom.

Collaborative Poetry- Tuakana Teina

 

Last week, our Social Positive Purpose Group worked collaboratively with the Year 3 students to create some poetry. The aim was to teach the juniors about the poetic devices that the seniors have been using in their poetry. It was great to collaborate and learn from each other!

When I feel Excited By Nikita and Sitara 

When I feel excited 

I bounce off the walls 

When I feel excited 

I explode excitement 

When I feel sad 

I burst into tears 

When I feel sad 

I read a book 

When I feel sad 

I slam the door 

When I feel nervous 

I freeze into a ball 

When I feel nervous 

I shiver with scaredness 

When I feel hangry 

I scream angrily 

When I feel loved 

I get happy and my heart bursts

Childhood Tracks by Soma and Nina 

Hearing tui waking me up in the morning 

Hearing the teacher talking to my class 

Hearing kids and me playing at playtime 

Eating toast in the morning 

Eating orange for lunch at school 

Eating pizza for lunch 

Drinking water in the afternoon 

Drinking orange juice 

Drinking fizzy drinks at home 

Smelling pizzas cooking in the oven at lunch

Anger by Oscar & Charlie

Anger 

It flies through our head 

like a bullet 

Causing happiness to scramble away 

Making everyone grumpy

Childhood Tracks by Ethan Gigi and Oli 

Smelling delicious flowers 

Smelling pollen in the flowers 

Hearing tui sing loudly 

Hearing beautiful getting pollinated by bees 

Eating delicious KFC 

Eating the burning pizza 

Feeling water on your face 

Feeling the fresh breeze on my face

Love By Charlotte and Cara

Love is form of relationship 

Flying through the air 

as its formed 

Love is a red hot heart 

Burning through 
The soul

Childhood tracks- Sam and Mastani 

Hearing my Dad screaming 

Hearing my little brother throwing dishes on the ground 

Hearing seagulls stomping on the roof 

Seeing my neighbours jumping on the trampoline 

Seeing seagulls flying past the window 

Seeing harakeke bending in the wind 

Eating chocolate caramel goody-goody-gumdrop ice-cream 

Eating pancakes with chocolate and raspberries 

Eating tacos with guacamole and black beans

Junior Cross Country

 Junior Cross Country was a huge success! It was a beautiful morning to get down to our local beach. There were many nerves in the air but the children persevered and gave the race a go. It was so great to see some children giving themselves an extra challenge to do the year above race as well! What a great mindset!

A big thank you to Ashleigh Lake for the photos - they are beautiful!

This week our creative minds have also been writing recounts of their experience of Cross Country. Check out some of them below! If you want to check out your child's writing about Cross Country feel free to pop in in the mornings to have a read or we can post it to Seesaw!

I was stretching. "I can do it" I said in my head. He blew the whistle, 'screeeech'. The race started. I was running as fast as I could. I felt nervous. "Was I going to win or was I going to lose? Let's find out". I zoomed across the ground. "Oh no, I'm slowing down". I was running as fast as possible. The finish line is right there. I rushed across the finish line. I finished. I felt so happy.

- By Henry

When we were at the beach getting ready to race I was scared. I was going to use turbo speed. I was scared I was going to lose but I persevered and came seventh. I felt good and happy. I thought I was a winner!

- By Zen

Crash goes the waves then the whistle foes and everyone goes. I ran as fast as a rocket. I ran around Jeffery. My feet sink into the sand. I felt sand squish under my feet. I ran to the finish line.

- By Mackenzie

Arts Celebration

Across the school there is a buzz in the air and it is not the sweet sound of a drop saw.

 

It is the excitement around our Arts Celebration! 

 

   

 

Circle the dates on the calendar, book your food on kindle and bring the family. Wednesday 19th for the Seniors and Thursday 20th August for the Junior performance. Show starts at 6.10 pm but we will need children to be at school by 5.45 pm to get prepped and ready. More details will be confirmed next week. 

   

 

 

 

 

Tautoru have been busy this week creating costumes, developing ideas, and writing poetry inspired by the Stars of Matariki and Puanga. We are excited to share our learning with the community and can’t wait to see you all.

 

Positive Emotions: Learning about optimism with Magical Moments

This week we have begun to learn strategies to help us grow our optimism. Optimism is all about finding ways to solve problems or build our positive outlook during challenging times.

This week's strategy is called Magical Moment. Capturing a moment that we've enjoyed by think about it carefully helps us to build positive thinking brain connections and fills our bodies with positive emotions. You can learn more about the science behind this here.

Magical Moments can be as simple as remembering something delicious, a funny joke, or a special moment with someone we care about. The most important part is spending time thinking and absorbing all the positives about the experience.

Over the coming weeks we will practise this strategy and learn a few new ones as well. 

Communicating learning through the Arts- Matariki

For our inquiry this term we are learning about all the different stars of the Matariki cluster (Pleiades). Each star holds a particular meaning in Te Ao Māori (The Māori World). We are learning through dance, drama and poetry and will be sharing our discoveries during the Arts celebration.

We watched this clip that explains the different meanings of the Matariki cluster:

Here is some of the art pieces that are taking shape to inspire our ideas:

Dance routines are coming together....

Poems are ready to be added to the music...

Matariki

Matariki dancing around the sky 

bringing people together

Matariki the biggest star

Matariki the healer 

Firing flames cooking kumara

Cooking yummy kumara 

over the flaming fire

Cooking delicious kumara 

so the steam feeds the stars

Matariki

Reminds us to come together

Reminds us to look after 

and enjoy nature.