Pondering in Week 9

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Pondering in Week 8

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PONDERING in Week 7

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To Ponder is to think, to consider, to mull over, to.......

 

Pink Shirt Day Letterbox drop

The back of each card

Personalised messages on the front

We decided to drop t-shirt messages into letterboxes around our community for Pink Shirt Day and to continue on our support for Mental Health in our community. We all added ideas to a padlet of things to say, then wrote ours into our books before getting a t-shirt card to write on and colour in gorgeously.

Our students are getting better and better at writing uplifting comments or finding comments that are relevant that others have written or that they have heard before. Most people managed to create three gorgeous
t-shirts.

 

 

We went to different streets this time and also asked people to repost the cards into other letter boxes when they have finished with them. Hopefully people will and the cards will go all over Auckland.

Group 3 ready to deliver t-shirt cards. 

 
We headed out onto Hillsborough Rd to find some letter boxes. Of course we wanted cars and trucks and buses to toot and wave at us!! Which they did. It was a lot of fun.
 

To End Term One

When Puketapapa Local Board asked for a group of students to complete a survey around Community Wellbeing and Health we were happy to incorporate it into our programme. One, because it was supporting our local community, two it was an opportunity for student voice and three out school overarching Inquiry this year is Hauora - Wellbeing. One of the students chose Mental Health as what she thought was important to focus on and had the idea of writing kind messages and posting them into letter boxes. we thought this was a great idea and decided we would do it as a whole syndicate and post them on Gumboot Friday. The students loved it and we got lovely feedback from the community through phone calls and emails to the school. Here are some of the cards. We are planning another drop for this Friday - Pink Shirt Day. Watch this space.

I'm BACK!

Hi there Hauraki Class.

So stunning and beautiful in reality! 

Awesome people on bikes

Carrying milk 

Many many monkeys in many many places.
Always ready to snatch your food or drink. 

Making chapati outside their homes, three times a day.
One for the cow, one for the dog, one for the hungry
stranger, then the rest for the family! 

   It is great to be back. Really!! It was an amazing time away in India and Singapore and I appreciate all the support I got from the school staff, board of trustees and you students (who I have heard have been excellent) to be able to be away for the first part of this term. The wedding we attended in India was very special. We wore India clothes and jewellery we borrowed from Mrs Najak and Mrs Rai. Thank goodness for them as we needed three different outfits for the different events. After staying in Goa and Mumbai for the main wedding events I flew to Delhi in the North of India and joined 12 other people to travel around an area called Rajasthan, with a guide, driver and bus boy. I have way too many photos to share them all (like thousands!) but I will add a few highlights.

SEEING TIGERS in the Ranthambhore National Park 

A colourful, happy, friendly
wedding procession in the street of a
local village. 

They came very close to our
open topped trucks! 

Lots of animals on the streets

Markets markets markets

Carrying ANYTHING on a bike. 

Crazy wires 

Forts and Castles in every town and city and in between! 

Fun at the pools!

We have started our swimming sessions at the local pool. Thank you to our fabulous instructors for being so enthusiastic and teaching us great skills for water survival. Have a look at what we are learning...

Practising our streamline! Hands lying on top of one another,

tight arms and off we go...

Learning how to dive below the surface, and developing the skill of

regaining our footing.

We are very excited to be coming again later in the week!

Welcome to 2019!

What an exciting and busy start to the term we have had in Hauraki, and across Te Waka Ako. It has been fun getting to spend time with each other again, after our summer holiday.

What has been happening, we hear you ask. Well...where to start? We have been refreshing our knowledge of the school code of conduct: RESPECT. This has involved considering our rights and responsibilities as students and staff of Waikowhai Primary School. If you were present at our assembly last week, you would have heard us sharing some of our ideas;

We have a right to be heard - We have a responsibility to listen.

We have a right to be safe - We have a responsibility to act safely.

We have a right to use a chromebook - We have a responsibility to follow the Kawa of Care.

We have a right to learn - We have a responsibility to be the best we can be.

We are still in the process of creating our syndicate treaty, if you have any suggestions for our Rights and Responsibilities, please post them in the comments below.

Swimming lessons have commenced in the school pool - we are also fortunate to have relaxation time in the pool at lunchtime. Don't forget that next week we start our swimming sessions at Cameron Pools.

Poetry and writing have been concerned with our emotions as we move into Year 5 and Year 6. We have had choice over what style of poetry to use, when we post our personal blogs, we will be sure to share some examples. During Music, our teachers shared how music makes them feel, do you know that the same song made them feel completely different emotions? We're now having fun creating sounds that evoke different emotions in others.

Our Goal Setting is well under way, getting ready for the Goal Setting meetings coming up with our whanau in a few weeks time. This has included developing our Pepehas further, and sharing information about ourselves through our Getting To Know You Form.

Ms Sands, our fabulous Hauraki teacher, is absent until 11th March. In her absence, we are being taught by Miss McGrath, our DP. She has included her Getting To Know You Form below, so that you can know her better:

We are looking forward to sharing more with you as the term goes on. We LOVE getting feedback, please drop any suggestions, questions or feedback into the comment section below. We'll look forward to hearing from you.

Summer Learning Journey

Today Megan from the Summer Learning Journey Programme came into Waikowhai Primary to talk to our Year 4, 5 and 6 students about participating in this programme over the summer.
She shared reasons this is a good programme to be part of and the prizes that would be available for top bloggers. Yep its a blogging programme based on activities completed.

We spent the morning looking at one of the topics and activities that were in the Programme in 2016/17, as a practise.
                                               https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome 

Day 1 – Choosing a destination
The world is a very big and very cool place. There are currently 196 countries and
approximately 7.1 billion people living on earth. For this project we are going to focus on just
10 countries across 6 continents.... Australia, Canada, Chile, England (United Kingdom), Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa & United Arab Emirates. The first and second activities were to choose a country and give two reasons why. Then find some new information that wasn't on the info they gave us.
                               
As the teacher I choose
Chile  because I love mountains and would like to see the Andes Range.  I would also like the colours the people of this country wear and use, I think. Finally Easter Island is part of Chile and I have always been fascinated by this place and would love to visit.
Then I went onto google to find some interesting facts about Chile.
1).  Chile has the largest swimming pool in the world.
2. It has one of the longest coastlines in the world and the Andes mountains run down the other side of the country. It is long and skinny country with beaches and mountains. Awesome.
3). Chile is home to 5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Read more: Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Chile https://www.quasarex.com/blog/top-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-chile-facts-about-chile