We had so much fun creating beautiful lanterns and fish to mark the Lunar New Year which is celebrated in South East Asia. We invited our buddies from Autahi to join us too. We were very fortunate to have Ling and Huifang come to talk to us and share a special celebration.
We have been learning about the importance of Manaakitanga and what this looks like in our world.
This week we have begun to think about how we can show our ideas using the art of Keith Haring, and learning how to use bold lines and solid colour to show ideas.
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Later on we will be developing our ideas further to create some exciting printed art works. Here we are using creativity and developing our ideas.
During our maths session we worked on problem solving. Students were buddied up across Tautoru and encouraged to share ideas and strategies to solve a problem.
What a great start to the year! We have come together after the break with everyone ready to learn and enthusiastic to make new friends along with re-establishing old friendships. We are all very excited about 2021.
This week we have been unpacking the concept of Manaakitanga which is about caring for people and the environment. Many of the students are familiar with Manaakitanga through our school Karakia, Kapa Haka, and prior learning.
Over the course of the coming week we will continue to look at Manaakitanga and how we can encourage students to see it in others and also themselves. On Tuesday we worked in base groups and discussed the different ways we care for the people around us , at school, and the wider world. We had a range of ideas from picking up rubbish, doing the dishes after dinner, and using our manners when we are out shopping!
So here it is, our final blog post for 2020. It's been an eventful, challenging, surprising and inspiring year to say the least.
Today we spent some time remembering and reflecting on our year. At the end of last year, we made some time capsules. This week we had a look and measured our hands again. We also reflected on some of the things we had hoped for last year.
On behalf of Team Tautoru, we wish you all a safe and joyful time with your whānau as we welcome a new year.
Each morning Tautoru have been busting down the walls with our voices and dance moves. We are practising, practising aaaaaand practising some more to get our wrap piece just right. We have had to employ many character strengths throughout this journey. Our wrap piece is pretty technical for our Tautorians but we are persevering! We make sure we use our Growth Mindset and Optimism to focus on what we are doing right and our strengths. At times, we've put on our critical lens to see how we can improve. What a learning rollercoaster it has been!
We'd love to share some photos of our practices but we're going to keep it a secret! You will have to wait until Tuesday next week.
Just know it has something to do with this....
(It'd be great to keep practising at home over the weekend so we can really nail our performance on Tuesday!)
This week we have continued to explore 3D shapes. We have been working on using the language of 3D shapes when building different models. We can now describe how many edges, vertices (corners) and faces there are!
We watched the following video to kickstart our discussion on the different parts of 3D shapes and what makes it 3-dimensional. Have a look if you'd like to continue the conversation at home!
Check out Seesaw and the photos below to see our mathematicians in action!
