Kiwi Can Debates

In Kiwi Can we have been learning to listen to each other. We talked about the fact that often at times, we may have a different opinion to someone else. This doesn't matter though, we can still be friends even if we think differently. Katie gave the example that Owen's favourite pizza flavour may be pepperoni. If Katie's favourite is Hawaiian and hates pepperoni does that mean they can't be friends? No, they just might not go out for pizza together!
In life there is often times when people have different opinions to us. To illustrate this we did a debate. We got into teams of 3, and had to argue different moots. One team's moot was McDonald's was the best food ever. We had to argue for and against this. It was a pretty fun task and Owen was our judge. We had a blast!

Our Debate Set Up

Having a discussion about opinions.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing Gilby Mum's! We hope you enjoyed the writing that we have been working extra hard on this week.

May the fourth be with you...

We had a fun day at Gilby on Friday. It was Star Wars Day! What a great reason to have a muft day. Kids, and teachers dressed up in either their favourite Star Wars or Superhero costume! These made for some great snaps. What a cool day.

The Gilby staff love a dress up day.

Superman and Superwoman!

A pretty cool looking Princess Leia!! Suits you Miss Waho.

Strand Math- Measurement

In week one, Ngakaunui spent the week focusing on Measurement for Numeracy. We learnt how to measure in cm and mm. We even made our own cm rulers to help us. We made a list together of things that we would like to measure. First up, we measured our hands. We found out that Courtney has the biggest hands, and Logan has the smallest.

We put our hands in order from small to big

We decided to see if this was the same with Ngakaunui feet... it was not!

We then decided to measure other parts of ourselves. We created a slide, using our cm rulers we measured our arms, face, eyes and smile! Check these slides out on our blog.

Zantae using Te Mihaea's ruler to measure his face.

Remembering our Anzac Soldiers

For the last few afternoons this Term, Ngakaunui have been doing some research on Anzac Day. To do this we have been using this website walking with an anzac. Miss Johnstone found a box of old souvenirs and items that belonged to Anzac Soldiers. We had a look through and each picked one that inspired us in some way. We went on the site, and found the picture that matched our item. From here, we researched our soldiers story.

Having a look through the items in the box

Choosing our item. Which one to choose??

We have uncovered a lot of interesting stories about our Anzac soldiers. For example, Harold Hallenstein (Zantae's soldier) was the son of the man who owned Hallenstein brothers. Did you know that Hallensteins provided our soldiers the uniforms that they wore to war??

Here are some snippets of our work. To see more information check out our individual class blogs!

Ara Tu Whakata Celebration Assembly

For the last few weeks of term one, every class at Ara Tu Whakata had been working super hard on a piece of work and a presentation to show what their new home class means. Manawaroa created a role play to show perserverance, Kura Pounamu made a giant kete filled with treasures and Whakamanawa created a giant colourful piece of collaborative art displaying a Whakatauki.
In Ngakaunui we wanted to design an artpiece to represent the meaning of our name, big hearts. We each made a background and Miss Johnstone took a photo of our hands making the shape of a heart and then framed all of these photos together. They look pretty cool!

Nazif's hand

Benaiah's hand

Te Mihaea's hand

Looking pretty cool on display in our classroom

Our hands all together. Te Ropu Ngakaunui- The group of big hearts 2018

Along with this piece of work, we also had to do a presentation at our special assembly. There were lots of important people there watching this. Mr Wilkinson, the builders who built our new spaces, and workers from the Ministry of Education. We were very nervous, but did a great job explaining what Ngakaunui means to us. Check out the video on the second slide below. The last slide is a video of Te Ara Takitini's new waiata which was written by Miss Waho. She did a fantastic job, and our singing sounded beautiful at the assembly.