Matariki Activities

Cup and Saucer string activity
http://health.tki.org.nz/Key-collections/Exploring-te-ao-kori/Learning-experiences/String-games/Cup-and-saucer
I do have some wool in class

Traditional Maori game
Pt 2. No 3. 2010

Playing Ki­o­Rahi​(Reading Year level 5)

Sue Gibbison.

The article provides the reader with instructions on how to play the game.

Making a Star with 8 squares
Instructions on the class wall
Square paper in the front of class

Making a Star with strips of paper
http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-lucky-star.html
Strips of paper in the front of class

Making a God's Eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZXcHoR_c
You will need some wool.

Rakau sticks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJD52j_N5ng
many youtube videos on rakau sticks.  You can make your own by rolling up a magazine.

Room 1 Open 'Day' and Week 8 update

Kia ora Whanau

On Wednesday (28 June) is the Matariki Community night in the hall at 5.30pm.  The classroom will be open from 5pm.  Please come in and have a look at the children's learning.

Next week we will focus our learning around Matariki.  In Inquiry we will start to look at Earthquakes and the focus for our maths will move from fractions to our times tables!

Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday and showing you our worm farms and our latest edition, baby salmon known as alevium.  We will start to feed them in term 3 and they will then become known as 'fry'!

Please let us know if you would like to receive worm juice next term.  We will be selling 2 litre containers of fertiliser for $2.  You will need to mix the fertiliser with 6 litres of water.

Nga mihi nui
Nigel

Recent action

We thoroughly enjoyed Puss in Boots: Pet Detective

We have made slime!

The Year 6's have visited both Kirkwood and Cobham recently.  Great to catch up with some of Ilam's past pupils

We have really enjoyed making kites with our buddy class.  We hope you will come and see our kites on display in both the classroom and the hall

Being kind

Well done Hamish for being so kind and supportive on the 'Run-a-km-for-kids' Fun run

Week 7 Update

Kia ora Whanau

Thank you very much for getting behind the Run-a-km-for-kids event.  It was a huge success not only financially but also through developing the importance of 'giving back' within our tamariki.

Our next major focus is Matariki.  Once we have completed our persuasive texts we will be doing some reading around Matariki.  We are also making Matariki kites.  There is a Matariki Community night at school on Wednesday 28 June, where our kites will be on display.  The classroom will be open for 30 minutes prior to the Community evening.  Please feel free to pop in and come and have a look at your childs learning.  I will be in the class if you have any questions.  The 'formal' parent/teacher interviews will take place in week 3 of term 3.

We are looking forward to a chat by a parent, who is a geologist and has been working in Kaikoura. He will present to us on Friday.  Passion time resumes again on Thursday.  Our fish should hatch from their eggs this week.  Watch this space...!

Please could you check that your child has a ruler!

Have a great week

Nga mihi nui
Nigel

Kidscan promotion

Week 6 Update - Please remember Kidscan

Kia ora Whanau

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Fundraiser this year.  Please remember to send your child to the office with their money on Tuesday.  Money raised will go to Kidscan and also towards some picnic tables and signage at school.

Very exciting that our salmon ova arrived this week.  We will start feeding them in the third term. The worm project is well underway.  We will be selling our worm juice in 2 litre containers for $2 at the start of term 3.  We had our second community service session to 'pay' for the worm farms.

Next week we will enjoy the Drama Production of 'Puss in Boots:  Pet Detective'.  On Tuesday the Year 6's go to Kirkwood and then on Thursday is the big charity run.  In Maths we will continue with fractions, in literacy we will be writing a persuasive text and we will continue with our volcanoes during Inquiry.

Detailed programme for Week 7:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/157syrzmDw_2I7dZax8usddTNLYRF2zqhGMlEwNNxphQ/edit?usp=sharing

Well done to Alex for winning the Player of the Day award in his Football team.

Nga mihi nui

Nigel

Promoting the 'Run-a-km-for-kids' Charity Fun Run

       

Children are to write down:-
1.  How they have gone about raising funds
2.  What are they are raising funds for
3.  When does the money need to come in to school
4.  What day is the actual Fun run
5.  What can they expect on the fun run

Answers to these questions can be found on posters outside Room 1.

Week 5 Update

Kia ora Whanau

Amazing to think that half the term has passed and in 4 weeks time half the year will have passed!  I had the pleasure of attending the North West School choir practise.  The singing was amazing!  Our new fish tank has been set up in the Science and Tech room and the ova will be arriving next week. The juice from the worm farms was cleared on Friday as from Tuesday the competitions will begin.

We will be selling our juice from Term 3.  Our slogan is 'We sell worm number ones!'  The children are designing the packaging which will go on the 2 litre containers.

Next week we will contine our focus on fractions during maths, we will use the Run a km for Kids fundraiser as a vehicle to learn how to write persuasively.  In Art we will complete our calendars and we will continue to learn about volcanoes in Inquiry.

Please could you support your child with the Run a km for Kids Fundraiser.  Proceeds raised will be going back into Ilam school and also to Kidscan.  The actual run takes place on Thursday 15 June.  All money to be handed in on Tuesday 13 June.

The Year 6's go Kirkwood on Tuesday 13 June and to Cobham on Monday 19 June.

Thank you for encouraging your child with their mathletics and reading homework.  I have also added in some spelling words for homework for some of the children.

Well done to Conner and Rithush for being named Man of the match in their respective teams on Friday.

Detailed plan for Week 6

https://docs.google.com/a/ilam.school.nz/document/d/1DVpFq1YRHL7SCTVpT203byqs7TMaSD0SpNm_h2g3zug/edit?usp=sharing

Have a great long weekend

Nga mihi nui

Nigel