Thursday, May 28, 2009

Maori Myths and Legends

Last week we continued our inquiry work on "10 Ways to Save the Planet" by setting up an experiment to see how quickly different items would breakdown in water. Pop into Room 11 and have a look at the jars containing a pear, a marble, glad wrap, paper, fabric and tin foil. Why not set up your own experiment at home with items from your household rubbish. This week we will starting to look at a number of ways to reduce, reuse and recycle our waste.


On Thursday we had a great time at the Nelson Museum with Cindy who helped us act out Maori myths and legends. We also learnt about the whare whakairo, or meeting house, on a Maori Marae. Take a look at Cindy showing us how the parts of the whare whakairo are like the body of a person.


These photos show us acting out four different legends.
The Tale of Tuna-Roa

Kaha Kua's Net


Tane Brings Light To The World


Rata and the Canoe


One of our sounds from last week was the phoneme 'y'. We made and shared Mixed Berry yoghurt to help us remember the action that goes with this sound.


Here is this week's poem, Hey Diddle Diddle, can you hear the 2 words which contain the 'oo' digraph?


This week our sound focus will be on 'x' and 'ch' and the tricky word will be 'look'. Our shared book is 'Funny Bones' by Janet Ahlberg. In maths we will be looking at pairs of numbers that add together to make 10. On Wednesday we will be visiting the transfer station at Tahuna to see what happens to all the waste we put in our blue recycle bins and in the afternoon everyone is welcome to come along and support the whole school cross country event. On Thursday afternoon we will be going to the Suter to look at an exhibition which will inspire us to jump, move and dance

Reminders Cross

Wednesday 3rd June: Recycling Centre visit 1o.10-11.45 cars needed, followed by whole school cross country 1-3pm

Thursday 4th June Art and Movement Exhibition at the Suter 1-3pm

Monday 29th June Maori Musical Instruments workshop at the Museum 9.10-11am

1 comment:

  1. I like going to the museum. The legends were good. Will

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