Month: April 2023

Welcome Back to Term 2

Welcome back to Term 2. We hope you all had a wonderful holiday! As per tradition here at our kura (school), we start the term with a powhiri (welcome). This is to welcome our new students and their families and new staff that started either midway through term one or just this term. Whaea Danielle led the karanga for our kura and Whaea Moana led the karanga for our manuhiri (visitors). Matua Reg led the powhiri and welcomed our visitors. Mr Lloyd responded on behalf of the manuhiri.

We were  also very fortunate to have a member from our local RSA (Returned Services Association) play the Last Post to acknowledge ANZAC day that was just the day before we returned to school. We had a flag raising ceremony during the last post too. Once this part was finished each class walked past a wall in our school dedicated to ANZAC. Here are a few snippets here.

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Buddy Learning

As an intermediate student at NBC, we work alongside the new entrants class in a Tuakana-Teina role. This is where we guide the young students and help them at school.

On Friday, we helped the students use their iPads by modelling how to log in and access their learning. Some students in room 4 also choose their favourite book to read with their big buddy.

Here are a couple of photos from the morning

 

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Addition & Subtraction

WALT: how to use diffrent ways to solve addition & subtraction

SC: be able to use diffrent ways to solve addition & subtraction

Kia ora my name is Jayden and today I will be showing you my addition & subtraction

these activitis were very easy and I really hope you enjoy them. One thing I learnt is how to round and compensate in adition and subtraction. One thing that I liked was the addition beacuse it was a really and easy and calm activity. I did not have any negitive about  these activitys it was all fun and enjoyble.

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Vaea’s Year

Malo E Lelei, it is my joy to share with you my brief reflection of my year at KIS. It has been full of many fun and useful learning experiences. I am thankful for all who taught me, A great big thank you to al the staff who made sure we would have the best language weeks.

Please read over my poster to see more of what I am grateful for in 2023. All the best to Mr Wilson and my class 2024

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Stebsweb Reflection

This week I have been trying so hard to get off Level 15 to get to Level 16 and finally made it. So I decided to post my celebration so you know how my spelling is going. The thing that I found easy doing all these tasks was basically everything. The one thing that was that if you do get any words wrong then you will not have to do a Revision. The order for the spelling goes 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, Revision 1a, Revision 1b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, Revision 2a, Revision 2b.

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My Math Whizz Reflection

WALT: to learn as many things as possible.

SC: Improve as much as you can

Kia ora koutou katoa,

This week on maths whizz we learned how to solve Pencil and Paper subtraction and I feel that it made my brain think quite a bit a couple times.

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The Unfinished Drink

This week for ANZAC Day we researched about a (maybe) folk-lore about a soldier with a unfinished drink.

There was a poem about a soldier named La Tour Mollet D’Auvergne also known by Ted who broght a drink and went of to war. The poem went like this: There’s a bottle of beer in the Waihao Forks bar, From the rest on the shelf it stands out like a star.For its shape is old fashioned and it just might be purple and the label proclaims that its “Ballins Four X”,GTT was bought a long time ago by a young soldier brave;On his final leave home, these are the instructions He gave. “Don’t break it or sell it, just keep it in store,and we’ll drink it when I come back home from the war. ”He was killed overseas on the Island of Crete When they battled it out with the German elite.There’s a headstone but nobody knows where he Lies, If he sleeps his last sleep ‘neath the sea or the skies. But the bottle still remains at the Country Hotel, A memorial stands to a soldier who fell, travellers and locals take time out to think Of the soldier who never came home for his drink.,And somehow a glow by the bottle is Shed. As poppies surround it and edge it with red,For each Anzac Day there’s a new one to put there and they lie like a wreath round that bottle of Beer., There are many stone cairns scattered over the land, But I wonder how many are polished by hand. Though the cap is all rusty and outshines the Chrome, As it waits for the soldier who never came home.  

Our class researched about this and we got to learn more about Ted, The bilions of peoples that servied thier contries and about the people that payed thier respects to the lost souls.

Emotion or mood – Group 4

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ANZAC – Specal guest

it was start it in 28/4/2023 and that guest told my 2 class room and me in 10:30 told his story about dad in the war and was that finished. The guest told a game but we need to go the field and we had a game about something. the game is about is the king a something so I was the king and shivani was something and when was finished. I try one ANZAC cookie in my class and my two class room had one ANZAC cookie and there was some photo’s about the Specal guest photo about it  but it just only one because the other ones gone to the bottem so it remove so. I did one.

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Anzac Week

Hello, Kia Ora, Talofa

This week we learned about ANZAC. We made poppies. We used a template from our teacher. We cut then out, punched a hole and put a split pin in the middle to make a poppy.

We also made an acrostic poem for ANZAC DAY. This type of poem is where you take each letter of the word and that is the start of the new sentence. We were able to make an awesome poem this way together.

We also used google draw to make an anzac picture. To do this we:

  • We made a new google draw
  • we searched for a sunset or sunrise for the background and inserted it in
  • we then went onto google search images and typed in “black and white soldier”
  • we did a partial screen shot (control, shift, windows) of one of the soldier pictures
  • we removed the background by using removebg.com
  • we then downloaded the new image
  • we put the new image onto our background
  • we moved the image around to make it fit

 

Here are the photos of our art on our classroom window.

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All about ANZAC day!!


Hello, my name is Lilly Bell and right now I will be talking about ANZAC day. 
ANZAC day stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. 
We celebrate ANZAC day because it was the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps 
landed at ANZAC Cove, because they were trying to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula. 
In case you didn't know, the ANZAC colours are red and black, the colours of the poppies they 
saw when they landed at Gallipoli, Turkey. 
And did you know that Gallipoli is not a town?
ANZAC day is on the 25th of April.
The name ANZAC comes from the first world war, that lasted from 1915 to 1918. 
On ANZAC day many celebrations are held for all the men who fought in the war. 
And did you know that many people would face their age just to go to war??
The people who chose to fight were paid, and many people hadn't been on a boat, and the 
people who hadn't thought it would be a great opportunity.
Around 70 million people died, plus about twice as many were wounded. 
The people in the war were sent ANZAC biscuits, and the soldiers would add water to them to 
make porridge. 
At that time, the ANZAC biscuits were square. Crazy, right?!
The people in the war used pigeons to message each other by tying letters to 
their legs. Believe it or not, but the amount of Anzac that died in the war was 2000!!
Who could have guessed?? 

What was the most interesting fact that you learnt about ANZAC day?
What do you do to celebrate ANZAC day? 

Something else that you probably DIDN'T know, was that my main source to this text was 
actually my Grandfather!!

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Baking! Baking! Baking!

 

We finished the week off with baking ANZAC cookies. The simple mixture of flour, oats, golden syrup, desiccated coconut, sugar, butter and baking soda, filled the air with beautiful smells. The verdict ? ? ?

👍 I love these cookies, they are nice (Jordan)

👍 This is the best baking I have ever made! (Brayden)

👍 I really like the crunchiness! I know my mum would love these too (Emeline)

👍 They are scrumptious in my tummy (Ana Maria)

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Kate Sheppard Biography

Hello everyone,

Today in social sciences we wrote a small biography about Kate Sheppard. She led the women’s rights movement and helped women get the right to vote on September 19, 1893.

Here is my work:

Thank you for viewing my blog.

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