Meditation

 For meditation, we spent time admiring and enjoying nature. We went to the gardens by the butterfly playground to see the daffodils we planted earlier in the year.

After we spent time in the playground.

Seeking Excellence in the Arts

 In class both Brenna and Leisha shared their success with their Dance. Leisha with her jazz exam and Brenna with her Irish dancing competition.

It is great to celebrate with them and share their success after all the effort they have put in.

Celebrating Hugh!

 Today Hugh celebrated his success and seeking excellence in his surf life saving. It was great to hear about the different races he has competed in.

See Hugh and his medals below

Welcome Yanni

 We had a special Mass in Week 3 to celebrate and welcome Yanni into our Catholic church. This is an important event and was wonderful to see Yanni take his first sacrament. Later this year he will celebrate his second sacrament by receiving his First Holy Communion.

It's a .... Fing

 In class we are reading the novel Fing, we were practising the skill of visualising by drawing what we imagined the deepest, darkest, jungliest jungle to look like as a map.

See some of the students' visualisations below in the photos.

Rāwhiti Domain

 Yesterday afternoon Room 6 and 7 went together to plan daffodil bulbs in the butterfly garden. This has been a part of learning about being kaitiaki (guardians) of the whenua (land) and connecting with our local community. 

See the photos below of how Rooms 6 and 7 worked together as a team to help make our environment beautiful.

Pānui - Reading

 In our class, we have been learning about Matariki. In reading yesterday we talked about what Matariki is and how we can celebrate it as a holiday.

Below is our class' thinking about the benefits and negatives (yellow and black hat thinking in de bono hats) of having Matariki as a public holiday. There was some great critical thinking and discussion over the topic.

What do you think are the benefits of having Matariki as a public holiday?

Class Reward

 In Room 6 we had our class reward today for demonstrating the virtues of being kind, showing respect, having gratitude and seeking excellence. The students chose to spend time on Minecraft Education. They were set the task to create an enclosure for the animal they wrote about in their information reports.

See some of the enclosures in progress by Lilia, Brenna, Liam, Makua and Ian and William in the photographs below.

Kiara and Zara-Mao's Boat

 For the Footstep Quest Challenge, Kiara and Zara-Mao designed different boats that would float. It is great to see students engaging in the Footstep Challenge. 

                                            

The Footstep Question focuses on 5 different areas, giving, serving, academic, the arts and physical education.

Celebrating Samoan Language Week

 This we have been learning about Samoan, some famous Samoan people and learning new phrases. Noah, Cataleya and Kiara have been helping the class pronounce our Samoan correctly.

We have been practicing saying the Sign of the Cross in Samoan I le Suafa o le Tama, ma le Alo, ma le Agaga Pa'ia. See the video below to learn how to say it.

This week Kiara showed the class her traditional Samoan dress and explained the importance of her bracelet. It was really special to learn about it.

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At home why not try some of the following phrases:

- Manuia le Aso (Have a good day)

- Talofa (Hello)

- 'O a mai 'oe (How are you?)

- Manuia Fa'afetai (Well, thank you)

Celebration Friday

 Today Farrah and Despina shared for Celebration Friday.

Farrah and Despina both shared about their netball team from last year, and how teamwork is important in netball.

Despina also shared about her after school activities; art class and ballet. In art class she has been making a model of a whale.

Hockey

 This term we have been learning how to play hockey. 

Today we focused on passing to each other and defending the ball. It is great to see the children enjoying this sport.

Karate with William

 Today William showed us one of the defensive moves he has learned in karate. We also celebrated him being a yellow belt now.

Check out the karate move in the video below.

Butterfly Garden

 NBC has been lucky enough to be asked to help design butterflies to be hung in the new butterfly garden in Rāwhiti Domain. 

                

We took a trip on Tuesday to see the garden, we learnt about how the Monarch butterflies gather there and looked at different butterflies in New Zealand. See the butterflies we created in the picture below.

Beautiful Birds

 For the Footstep Quest Challenge, Lilia and Lynni created bird masks based on a native bird.