Tui Lockdown MasterChef

 Friday 3rd September 2021

WALT use math measurements in baking

Yay! It's Friday, and we've made it to the end of the second week in lockdown. To celebrate, Tui whanau have been set a baking challenge: 

Bake something cakey and delicious, and decorate it in the most interesting way you can with the ingredients you have in your pantry. You have the weekend and we'll share these on Monday.

A few of the boys challenged each other to a cake-off. Meanwhile our Tui girls got to work and created some amazing cakes and cupcakes:

Sofia's Splendid Surprise Cake

Summer's Scrumptious Blue Cake 

Maya's Amazing Red Velvet Cupcakes

Regan's Chocolate Racehorse

The girls certainly won this challenge! Congratulations on some fantastic cakes! I wonder what the next challenge is? 

Voyages and Navigation: Week 5/6 Term

 Friday 11th June 2021

We are learning to synthesise information in order to compare and contrast ideas across texts. 

Over the last couple of weeks we went deeper into the texts from week 4. We discussed how the author had used language to convey the points of view differently.  For example, in the text 'Te Taki", which is told from the point of view of a Māori boy seeing Europeans for the first time the language is written as if they have never seen Europeans before. Compared to the language in the Close Call at Tristan Du Cunha which is very British formal. We found it interesting to think about how different people may have experienced these events and they way the authors choose to portray this through language.

This week we finished recording and synthesising all the texts for the purpose, audience, and point of view

and took two of the texts and compares them against each other. 

We have been continuing to create our own timelines and narrating our own stories, and some people have started creating a stop-motion animation of their ancestors experiences. Here are their works so far.

Summer created a slide show of the story of Hone Heke - who she discovered was her eighth great grandfather! You might like to have a look. 

Voyage and Discovery: Learn Week 4 Term 2

Friday 28th

We are learning to identify the authors purpose, audience and the point-of-view portrayed by of the text. 

This week we have been reading more texts from Mrs Broadwith Google site on this topic, learning about European's arrival in New Zealand. Two of our texts are non-fiction and provide information on how Captain Cook voyaged around New Zealand, charting the coastline and making contact with Māori. The other is about the same event, but tells us more about the important work Tupaia - Captain Cook's navigator played in the discovery, particularly recording events through pictures and being the  translator with Māori on their arrival.

We also read two fictional narratives. One was called 'Te Taki" and was told from the point of view of a Māori boy seeing Europeans for the first time (and preparing to challenge them), and the second a complementary account of a Scottish boy called John McLay who travelled on the ship Mooltan in 1862 from Scotland to Otago. We found it interesting to think about how different people may have experienced these events.

After reading the texts were were asked to record our understanding of who we thought  the texts were aimed at, what the purpose was, and whose point of view was being represented. 

We completed a synthesis chart to record information. This is Chaucer Groups digital copy:

We have started creating our own timelines and narrating our own stories of our ancestors journeys to New Zealand. Some people like to use paper. Some people prefer to go digital and use google slides. These are examples of Summer's and James's paper timeline, and Paora's digital timeline.

We are really enjoying finding out about who we are and where we come from! Even Mrs B has been researching her family tree.

Voyage and Navigation Inquiry: Learn Week 3 Term 2

Following on from our amazing visit to Waitangi last week, Tui Whanau have been reading more about how people voyaged to New Zealand from different parts of the world.  

Mrs Broadwith create a Google site on this topic for us to access so we can access information about this topic easily.

We read about how many people - both men and women - travelled in large double- hulled waka from places like Polynesia and Micronesia, across oceans to come thousands of kilometres to get here. One of our texts told us about the type of wood these waka were carved from. Another talked about the way the explorers used the ocean currents to navigate their way towards the land. Did you know that the ocean currents change the closer to land they get? They also use the stars in the night sky to navigate their way and stay on course. 

We were learning to identify keywords on the topic and summarise these texts. 

Here is Liam's reading response. Mrs B said this is a good example of a response because he has summarised the text using the keywords and put in enough detail to explain it well, but not so much to make it too long. 

We created word art and word puzzles using the keywords. This is an example of Brooke's Word Art and Jordy's Criss-Cross Puzzle

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We learnt you have to save puzzle maker puzzles carefully or they disappear on you!

KiwiCan 17.3.21

We were learning how to co-operate in a team.

Today in Kiwican we started off with a game called "Bear, Salmon, Mosquito." Its a bit like Rock, Paper, Scissors. The aim of this game is to decide a team which action to choose to battle the other team. Bear beats Salmon, Salmon beats Mosquito, Mosquito beats Bear.  In this game you have to work together and agree which action you are all doing. Everyone has to do the same action. If there is confusion your team loses. 

We enjoyed this game because its exciting, and you get to do funny faces, good expressions, and make loud noises at our classmates. 

Today we didn't do so well because we kept talking during the game, so the game had to stop. 

Bear

Salmon

Mozzie

Maths Groups

 WALT read and order whole numbers up to 1,000,000

This week in Tui Whanau, some of us have been learning how to read larger numbers involving 7 digits or more. Including tenths and hundredths.

We discussed the difference between 'digits' and 'numbers' and learnt that reading and ordering numbers requires understanding that where a digit is placed within a number changes its values.  If a digit is in a higher place its value goes up. For example:

3,567,896 - Here the 9 is worth 90

3,967,856 - Here the 9 is worth 900,000

To practice this understanding we played a game using cards. Each member of the group gets dealt 6 cards between A (1) - 9, with a Q as a 0. Each player looks at their cards and decides where they are going to place their cards face down to make the biggest 6 digit number.

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They then place their cards face down in front of them, with the lowest digit on the right and the largest digit on the left. Each person reveals each places value.

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The group has to order the numbers from the highest to the lowest number. 

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Each person then receives the number they made in maths money.  So the biggest number is worth the most. 

Our group enjoyed playing the game and seeing how the value changes.

By Ataahua, Bailee, Maya, Starley, Summer, Sofia.