Get Ready to Shake Out!

Today we practiced our Earthquake Drill: Drop, Cover, Hold. 

Everyone knew what they needed to do and quickly got under the tables to drop, cover, and hold.

  

I wonder if you know how what to do in an earthquake?

Writing in Tanemahuta: Describing the setting

 Last week we were learning how to describe the setting for a story. We had to look at our picture, think about the time and place our story would be set it. When we were writing we included lots of description including what our senses would feel if we were there - what would we see, smell, taste, hear, feel? 

Tanemahuta had to think very hard and they have come up with lots of creative ideas. 

 

 I wonder which setting you think sounds the most peaceful? I wonder which setting you think sounds the scariest? 

Welcome back to Term 4!

Today we got to start back at school after having 2 weeks of holiday. Everyone in Tanemahuta is excited to be back! 

This morning we discussed the important behaviours to make Term 4 successful. 

We decided that these actions are the most important:

• Be kind and show kia manawanui
• Listen to others
• Raise your hand on the mat if you want to speak 
• Show respect
• Be responsible and organised for our learning
• Let others think for themselves, don't shout out the answers
• Try your best 
• Mistakes are valuable learning moments

This is a great list of amazing ideas from our learners in Tanemahuta! 

Book Character Day at Makaraka School

Today we got to dress up as our favourite book characters and donate money to the Salvation Army. Eilidh and Malia (from Tawhirimatea) organised this event as part of their Aurora Leadership learning. They did a fantastic job promoting the event, running the parade and getting people to share their love of reading with others. Well done girls! 

There were lots of different characters from a wide variety of books. We got to have a parade to show off our costumes to each other. After the parade we paired up with somebody from a different year group and got to complete some buddy reading. All the staff were impressed with how engaged all the learners were. 

Have a look at some of the photos below. I wonder if you can recognise anyone? 

Impromptu Speeches on our Google Meet today...

It was lovely seeing these wonderful Tanemahuta children on our Google Meet. 

We spent some time working on Impromptu Speeches. Each person got to choose a random number from below, and then had a moment to think about the prompt before sharing their ideas. I am very impressed how everyone gave it a go! Some people enjoyed it so much that they went 2 or 3 times!

I wonder if you could make this into a game to play at home?