Inspiration, Challenge, Achievement – Te Hiringa, Te Werohia, Te Whakatutukitanga
Karaka’s chickens weren’t due to lay an egg until early January. However, our well fed chooks surprised everyone (including Dave) by popping out, not one, but three eggs since last week. It looks like scrambled eggs will be on the menu for the end of term party!
We have had so much fun this year with the chicken, and boy! Have they grown!
It has been a busy start to the year in Karaka. We have been learning lots of new things and having a lot of fun! For the last couple of weeks we have been getting to know each other to find out what makes us and our class special. We have begun some outstanding self portraits using pencil.
Last week we begam to learn about composting! We had a visit from Caretaker Dave and some of the kids who were in Karaka last year. This year we will find out what composting is, where it happens and how. We will take charge of the school compost bins and worm farms and will soon be teaching the school how things are done.
A big highlight of being in Karaka is that we are getting some of those questions we have always wondered about answered! Every week Karaka has two ‘I wonder…’ questions for homework. On Thursday’s we share what we learnt. Some examples so far which you can wonder about are…
How is glass made?
What does Karaka mean?
Why did the Egyptians have mummies?
What are volcanoes?
Here are some of our answers…
This weeks questions are…
Why are some things poisonous? and Why do we wear clothes?
You can find out what each weeks ‘I wonder…’ questions are by taking a look at the Wonder Wall in front of the door into Karaka and you can find out what we have learnt by looking on the walls!
Last week we begam to learn about composting! We had a visit from Caretaker Dave and some of the kids who were in Karaka last year. This year we will find out what composting is, where it happens and how. We will take charge of the school compost bins and worm farms and will soon be teaching the school how things are done.
We are looking forward to the cross country and all the other events happening this term!
Karaka
The Commonwealth Games as inspired the class to new heights in their Athletics. We have been developing our skills in throwing quoits and vortex, high and long jump and of course the sprints 4 days a week. Now we move onto the games of summer, hopefully we have the weather to match.
If you check out the art in our classroom you will find colourful petroglyph inspired cave art, we will be creating collages next based on our favourite dinosaur .
We have been looking at cave art and fossils through our journey in the prehistoric world, and look forward to exploring Dinosaurs in more depth for the rest of the term.
The creative juices are flowing looking at a variety poem styles in writing, I hope you heard some of our kenning style poems at assembly. Communicating through letters, e-mails, and cards will be our focus for the weeks leading up to the end of term.
Maths has been fun learning about addition and subtraction using computers and the wonderful new maths resources in the class. Capacity (measurement) and money will be some of the focuses for the rest of the term, I hope we have the capacity to learn lots about money.
Karaka and the new teacher have been getting to know each other, I think we are doing a great job. The class is looking forward to the picnic at Khandallah and swimming at Wainui, maybe Mr T will share his great bombing styles with the class!
I look forward to the rest of the term and all the fun and exciting things we are yet to do.
Matt Titcombe