Our Marae Visit

Our Marae Visit

Our day started off with a Powhiri at the Manurewa Marae Matukutururu.

There were 10 stations in totally consisting of: Short Rakau with Whaea Tania, Tall Rakau with Mr Ikitule, Poi with Whaea Emma, Marae Korero with Erin, Dining Room Protocol with Britts, Taamoko Stencils with our lovely parent helpers, Waita with Whaea Christine, Haka with Mary, Raranga with Whaea Carolina and Rebecca, Maori commands/hand games with Whaea Geneva. Because of limited time, we only had the opportunity to participate in 4 of the stations. Our first station was the waita station with Whaea Christine. 

Our second station was the Poi station with Whaea Emma, she worked with the girls. She was pleased that we learnt our moves so quickly.

While we were learning our poi moves, the boys were doing the haka.

Our third station was the Raranga one with Whaea Carolina and Rebecca. We struggled at first, but then some of us became experts.

This was the Tall Rakau station with Whaea Lois.

This was the games station, we played Kia o Rahi.

This was the Dining Room Protocol Station.

This was the Taamoko Stencils Station.

Tall Rakau station with Mr Ikitule

What a fun-filled educational day with beautiful weather. For most of us it was our first time. We hope that we have the marae visit again next year.

Our Ferris Wheel Project

Our Ferris Wheel Project

Our purpose was to use our literacy and maths to complete our prototype. We watched Youtube videos and researched how to build a ferris wheel. 

Our Reading task was to use visualisation, summarising and questioning.

Learning intention

• Use my imagination to draw what the Ferris Wheel will look like after reading the text
• Summarise the text I have read and record where I read the text 
• I will ask questions during the reading to further understand the text

Success Criteria 

• To draw a picture of the Ferris Wheel after I have read the text
• I will summarise the text, so the reader knows what the text is about
• I will write 5 questions while I read and one after

For writing, we had to write a procedural piece to show a step by step instructions on how to make our Ferris Wheel 

WALT: 

• Write a procedural/explanation piece that explains to the audience how to make your Ferris Wheel PROJECT

Success Criteria:

• I will write a step by step procedure/explanation for our Ferris wheel project in the school
• I will ensure it meets the R 5’s in my writing rubrics

We used Coggle to plan our writing.

After doing all of our written work, we were ready to do the fun stuff, the building of our prototype.

Day 1

Day 2