Taonga - Family Treasures

Kia Ora Whanau

We are currently looking at all our different identities we have in Room 1.  To help us appreciate this I have asked each child to bring one who two 'family treasures' to class.  It could be a picture, cap, tee-shirt, flag, ponamu, medal.  Something that tells a story about where your family has come from.

These treasures will be coming home at the end of term.

Nga mihi nui
Nigel

Making poppies

Youtube video on how to make a poppy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe0uqc6ImgQ

Tips:
1.  Practise on on some scrap paper first.
2.  Fold one bit of paper at a time.  Do not fold the two papers together.
3.  The trick is getting the folded paper in the right position before you draw the cutting line.
4.  Once you have mastered the folds and the cutting and have the correct shape then progress to using the red paper.

Good luck

Literacy for Week 9

Some of the readers will need to access the following sites for their literacy unit:

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/anzac-day/introduction
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/introduction
http://www.anzac.govt.nz

Enoy your research

Week 8 Update

Kia Ora Whanau

Camp was undoubtedly a huge highlight.  I hope your child has had a restful weekend and is now fully recovered from camp!  There are quite a few pictures and videos of the camp on the blog.

Week 9
Literacy - We will be doing a reading unit on the First World War.  The intention is to turn the learning space into a bunker!  If you have access to any sacks, foam and/or netting please could you let me know.  We will also be completing our camp thank you letters.

Vision - We will be looking at the first petal on the vision 'I belong'.  To assist the focus with this please could you send the children to school with 'something of significance' from where you come from.  eg a flag, cap, tee-shirt, book, stuffed animal etc.  Also linked to the vision we will be doing a visual mihi using pic collage

Art - We will be completing our self portraits.

Sport - The winter sport trials will be run over the next two Friday afternoons.  The School cross country will be run on Wednesday 12 April.

Detailed plan of the week attached
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mutYQEOngosXfsE_JDco4osq6WxqZeYLE_e0Vo5b0I/edit?usp=sharing

Have a great week

Nga mihi nui
Nigel

Few more camp pics

Camp videos

First few Camp pics

Wainui Camp Gear List

Wainui Camp

Kia ora Whanau

This is it!  Just two more sleeps and we're off.  Please remember to check through the camp gear form.

Absolute essentials are cutlery, sleeping bag and pillow, togs and towel, warm clothes, suntan cream, a hat and some strong trainers for walking on the rocks.

Any last minute questions please e-mail me on nigel.marsh@ilam.school.nz

PLEASE see that your child has a very early night on Sunday and that they are at school by 8.40am on Monday.  We want to try and be on the road soon after 9am.

Looking forward to a wonderful 3 days

Nga mihi nui
Nigel

Pics from Week 7

Jordan Taufua and Jone Macilia from the Crusaders came to visit

During drama we did some 'Armchair Interviews'

We enjoyed the Duatholon.  Go Lisa

We teamed up with our buddy class - Room 11, for the first time.  We will meet with them on a fortnightly basis throughout the year

Proud Farmers!

Jiny and Hazel proudly displaying their recent 'takings'.  We have been supplying fertiliser to the gardens around the school.  In a couple of weeks the call will go out to the Room 1 parents to send in an empty milk bottle and we will return it with fertiliser for the garden at home.

At this stage there is no charge!  We are looking into the possibility of growing our farm and turning it into a 'business'

Essentials for Camp

Kia Ora Whanau

Please could you send your child to school on Wednesday with the following essential items for camp:

1 pair winter pyjamas
1 thermal vest
1 casual jersey (not a school jersey)
1 jacket
1 bag/suitcase/backpack  (not a normal school bag)
A knife, fork, spoon, cup (plastic or metal) and a plate

Please let us know if you do not have the full camp gear list

Just 7 more sleeps!

Nga mihi nui
Nigel

Update of Week 6

Kia Ora Whanau

Update of Week 6
I was very proud of the way that the children handled all their assessments in Week 6.  It was an extremely busy week.  It was great to see the children learning off eachother in maths.  The Maori phrase for that is 'Tuakana Teina'.  There are some wonderful pictures of this on our blog.  It was very exciting to receive the 'We are...' poster from Torbay School.  We are enjoying our Kiwisport with the CBHS lads

Week 7
In literacy this week we will be doing some poetry focussing on writing some limericks.  In maths we will continue to focus on place value and number and we will be using the tuakana teina principle again.  We will do our last bit of self portrait practising.  After camp we will do the real thing!  A big focus for the week will be our camp preparation.

Camp essentials
The following items will need to be brought to school on Tuesday:
1 X jacket
2 X thermals
1 x tracksuit pants
cup, plate, knife, fork and spoon
1 X jersey/track-suit top/hoodie
1 X beanie
1 X camp bag/suitcase

All items MUST be labelled.

Sport in Week 7

• Class swimming is now finished.  (We will swim at Wainui next week).  I will supervise voluntary lunchtime swims on Thursday and Friday.  Friday will be the last of the lunchtime swims.
• Duathlon takes place on Thursday.  Children to bring a bike or scooter to school if at all possible.
• 2 sessions of Kiwisport
• 5 very lucky boys will attend an exclusive rugby training session with The Crusaders.

Please copy this url for the detailed weekly plan

https://docs.google.com/a/ilam.school.nz/document/d/1FKpLbkuSNq4nxglRvjrGm-5CmuhEOfP1aN17GYbnUkE/edit?usp=sharing

Have a great week

Nga mihi nui

Nigel

We are poster from Torbay school

Learning Together

Leadership

Congratulations to our tamariki who have taken on a leadership role this year.  Natasha is on the Council, Keelia, Maia and Natasha are librarians and Kanye, Rithush and Navia are cultural leaders.

Tuakana teina

Absolutely wonderful to see the children learning off eachother

Update on Week 5

Kia Ora Whanau

Highlights of Week 5:
*  Pasifika Talanoa
*  Swimming Sports
*  Completion of our 'We are....' poster and sending that off to Torbay school in Auckland.
*  Kiwisport with the CBHS boys
*  Beginning our camp preparation
*  Playing end-ball in the pool

Week 6:
This is assessment week.  Please have a look at the programme below (copy the url into your 'Search' bar at the top of the screen) to see what assessments are taking place on which day.  We will still make time for our swimming on Monday and Thursday and our Kiwisport on Wednesday.

We will also talk more about Camp, we will look at our Strengths and Weaknesses as Individuals and what this means for our team.  On Wednesday we will have a go at drawing a self portrait.

We will write our mihi in Week 7.

Copy this url for the detailed plan for Week 6
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNhz_sn3JHLPG7KFbd63ozn23J6soIvHezS4t0-Ca-8/edit?usp=sharing

Have a great week
Nga mihi nui
Nigel

Swimming Sports

Pics from Week 5

This is our 'We Are...' poster that we have sent to Torbay School in Auckland.  We also each wrote a metaphor about ourselves on a postcard and also sent that off to Torbay School.  We look forward to receiving their poster and postcards.

Hamish developing his basketball skills

Basketballers with their coach from CBHS

It was great catching up with all the Room 1 Pasifika families at the Talanoa