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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

We had a fantastic start to the year today in Papatūānuku! Begining with our Hui we quickly headed down to the hall for our mihi whakatau to welcome our new Rāwhiti whānau. On our return, we ate a cookie together and finished our hui before heading out for the morning run. The morning was full of fun and learning how to collaborate and work in the studio. We practised sharing, listening, and packing things away. After lunch we started on our shared art display… we will keep this a secret for now, but stay tuned on our blog to see what it turns into! Finally, we sang some waiata, packed up the studio and finished the day with fresh air and a run around on Hikihiki!

We can’t for some more fun tomorrow!

Kaiako by day…. Superheros when the tamariki go home?

On Thursday, we were a bit cheeky, we started ripping up old library books from our library corner. But it was ok, we checked with Elizabeth and she replaced them with new books. Some of the books were from back in the olden days when Lisa worked at Central New Brighton.

Whaea Emma showed us some amazing art work that was made from ripped up pieces of paper. They were called collages. We saw birds, animals, the earth and flowers made from pieces of ripped paper. We used the pages from the old books to pick the colours we needed to create our own art work! We thought about what we wanted to make, designed it on the paper the got onto our collage. Here are the results!

What would you create if you made a collage? Can you recognise any of the books we have used?

This week we read the BSLA book The Boat Race. We decided it would be a really good idea to create our own boats! For the next two blocks, Papatūānuku turned into a creation zone as we were all designing, sticking, cutting, bedazzling and building our boats. We then took a photo of the final projects and emailed them to Whaea Emma. Here is a video of our boats! Unfortunately, we didn’t get time to test whether they floated. Some of us took them home and reported back on their ability to float. Which one do you think will float the best?