Last Saturday was the Kids Round of the Super Rugby Season and Papatūānuku were invited to be involved. Cam from the Crusaders came in for a visit and a group of tamariki created artwork of our Crusaders players as Superheros!!! This video was then shown before the Crusaders game on Saturday to introduce the line-up. If you were at the game you would have seen the video of our fantastic artists at half-time. This was such a cool opportunity to be involved in our wider community! Thanks to Cam and the Crusaders team for letting us be involved and for the goodies they gave us as well.

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This week Whaea Emma’s maths group have been practicing the days of the week. We have talked about what special things happen on each of these 7 days. On Friday when we were learning about weekdays and weekends, we did an activity to help us remember which was which. First, we had to get 5 strips of paper the same colour and write Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday on them. These are the weekdays. Next, we got 2 strips of paper,r a different colour to write Saturday and Sunday on. These days are the weekend days. Then, we stapled them together to make a paper chain. We had lots of fun practicing our days and sharing these with our friends. What is your favourite day of the week?

What a fantastic day at the Canterbury School of Gymnastics. Running and jumping. Swinging and balancing. The rumour is that Lisa even got into the foam pit! Now we’ve had a go, we need to set some goals! How can we improve on what we have learned? What skills do you think we could work on? What would you like to see us do?

Before the Rāwhiti Records Challenge at break time, we took our studio out to practice their skills. There was a huge amount of passes and everyone participated! Kia kaha!

When it was time for our Rāwhiti Record our Juniors represented well. Our team made up of Lexi and Bella T completed 113 passes in 1 min.

Ka pai tō mahi!

This week’s Rāwhiti.           Record Challenge is theTh

This week’s Rāwhiti Record Challenge is the most basketball passes between two people in one minute. The year 1-3 need to stand one 1m apart and can use sponge ball if they choose.

For literacy, we have been learning how to set goals and we used the Rāwhiti Record Challenge as our goal for this week. Each of us came up with a goal that we wanted to achieve e.g. participating, passing it 100 times in 1 minute or catching the ball with two hands. We decided on steps we would need to do to achieve our goal, and most of us decided it would take a lot of PRACTICE! We have spent time before school and at break practising our skills.

Today is the day, the day of the Rāwhiti Record Challenge. We are excited to see how many of us can achieve our goals!

Stay tuned…

This week has been full of numbers as Papatūānuku have started their Maths routines this week!

We love working with numbers and have been hanging out for our lessons to begin.

Whaea Emma’s Maths group have been working on writing their numbers to 20 independently. As you can see we are ready to count higher! We have mastered getting the tools we need for maths, being in the right place and working hard to complete our learning task!

Lisa’s Maths group have been working on reading word problems and working out which of our maths strategies we need to use.

Whaea Kate’s Maths group have been focusing on routines and working independently.

We can’t wait for more Maths next week!

We have been loving our literacy blocks this week! Each day we have listened to a new shared book and then we have be able to get creating. The studio always gets messy but our creations are the best. Have you read the big book, Frog Finds a Home? Poor Frog isn’t a tadpole anymore so he goes on a journey to find a new home. We made it our mission to create a new home for Frog. What type of home would you create for Frog?

Although the seniors couldn’t join us, today Papatūānuku had their first morning of Choice in Challenge. We didn’t get all our favourite options but we could choose an inside or outside activity. We created amazing things, made forkies, used the maths equipment, built with lego and blocks, were monkeys on the bars, sped around the bike track and had an epic football match.

Check us out! We can’t wait for the seniors to come and run some fun activities for us soon!

On Thursday Karaka kaiawhina group read a book called Papatūānuku has a Tummy Ache. It was all about Papaptūānuku feeling sick because there was too much rubbish in the wrong place. We went out into our playground in search of rubbish! We found HEAPS of rubbish which we took back to our studio and put in the right place, the rubbish bin.

Papatūānuku doesn’t have a Rāwhiti School tummy ache any more!

Some of us know Rāwhiti School pretty well, but some of us were new this week so we spent time exploring the grounds. We got into teams and did a number scavenger hunt on Tuesday. Whaea Emma made us count all the tyres on the bike track, and there are a lot! If you work out how many there are can you let us know?!

On Wednesday, we got into our kaiawhina groups and our kaiako gave us a clue, we had to work out which location it was and go there. It was so much fun and everyone in our kaiawhina group learned about these important areas at kura. Let’s see if you can work out these locations…

1. To the tallest point which you can climb
Find this location before you run out of time

2. You’ve had a great day but then something changes
You haven’t felt this sick in absolutely ages
Checked with the teacher and went on your way
This location is called our s______ b_____.

3. Now that you’re here, let’s look around
For some reason no one is making a sound
This place is full of magic, adventure and facts
I’d like to issue these, thanks

4. Race as fast as you can, can you beat me?
Up and over the bumps and watch that tree
See how fast you can get there and back
This is the awesome Rāwhiti b____ t______.

5. Sometimes it’s a T
Or a question from me
You may need to go number ones or number twos
There is an English word but in Māori it’s wharepaku

6. Where we sit in rows and are very quiet
No one wants to stand out by causing a riot
We can’t climb this one even though it’s tall
PMP happens here and so does dodgeball

7. The place for creating with shovels and spades
We have to wear our hats even under the shade
We share it with the seniors and all have fun
You might get it in the shoes and your socks and your bum

8. Jack and Jill ran up t___ h____
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after

9. Behind is the garden all lush and grown
A climbing wall and some bars
You could have fun here for hours
This place you can play, spin and your hat be blown