Sugar Rap

How do you keep fit and healthy?

It’s simple...lots of practice, lots of determination and lots of eating the right kai and definitely less of this sugary stuff.The choice is yours!

Hope this movie will convince you to eat healthy by including lots of fruit and veges to your daily diet and less sugar.

Ako in Action - Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2017

Last week Room 10 students took over lessons across the school as tuakana for te wiki o te reo Māori.  Mātakitaki mai!

Matariki Celebrations with our Teina

On Friday, Room 10 and Room 1 got together for a Tuakana/Teina day.  We worked together on arts, crafts and kai, as well as singing songs of Matariki.

Matariki is a time for sharing, learning and getting together and we enjoyed celebrating Matariki with the youngest students in our school.

Here are some photos from the day, including a video of our Matariki Macarena on the last slide.

Kūmara for Matariki!

Today Room 10 made kūmara wedges as part of our learning about healthy eating and as part of our Matariki celebrations!

The kūmara chips were oven baked and the skin was left on for extra fibre.  That's what makes them a better choice than hot chips from the takeaways which are fried in a lot of oil and have less nutritional benefits.

We paired them up with a sour cream and sweet chilli dipping sauce and they were DELICIOUS.

Hari Matariki koutou!

Planting for Matariki

On Tuesday the Kia Manawanui syndicate (Year 7s and 8s) went to Paddington Reserve to take part in a community planting day, organised by MADAVE.  Here is a video of our experience!

Our Sugar Songs!

Today Room 10 had to perform their songs/raps that we had written in response to our learning from watching That Sugar Film.

We were entertained all afternoon and we were amazed at the creative lyrics that different groups came up with.

If you would like to watch the videos - you can!  They have all been embedded in the Google slides below.  Enjoy!

Making Hanawiti - Making Sandwiches

Room 10 have been learning about making balanced choices with food for a healthy life.  Today we made hanawiti (sandwiches) to show how easy, balanced and filling healthier choices can be.

We made sandwiches with ham or luncheon, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, carrots and wholemeal bread.  Our oils and fats group was mayonaise and butter.

Some of us grated carrots for the first time today!  Some others tried to sneak in a sandwich with just the tiniest bit of lettuce, so we were challenged with our taste buds as well as our thinking about nutrition!

Check out some of our creations below...he namunamuā ā mātou hanawiti!

Here is Kīra's hanawiti!
Here is Lovey's hanawiti!
Here is Constance's hanawiti!
Here is Ricky's hanawiti!
Here is Kauri's hanawiti!
Here is Teresa's hanawiti!
Here is Perenara's hanawiti!

Sam the Honey Man!

Today Kia Manawanui syndicate welcomed Sam Tu'itahi, who likes to keep bees as a hobby, to find out more information about how honey is made.  We are investigating honey production as part of our inquiry into food and also to help us with explanation writing.

Kia Manawanui asked many interesting questions and we can't wait to share our finished products with you!

Here are some photos from our time with Sam!

Preparation for Explanation Writing

This morning, room 10 worked together in small writing groups to construct paragraphs that were suitable for writing an explanation.

We worked together to get a better idea of how we could organise time in assessment conditions and we are all feeling very confident for our Writing test tomorrow!

Here is our class explanation:  How to develop Manaakitanga in your classroom.

It also has added tips for writing an explanation!

Good luck to all students taking part in their writing samples this week!

Honey Tasting in Room 10!

This morning in Room 10, we were tasting honey as part of our Term Two topic looking into healthy eating and fuel for living!  We will be exploring where honey comes from and how it is ends up from Bee to Bottle!  We tasted four different types of honey:  Mixed, clover, Pohutukawa (from Miss Kyla's own back yard!) and Manuka.

It was interesting today as we discovered the different tastes and textures of honey and some of us realised we actually don't really like honey that much!  It was a fun session with funny faces and reactions to the honey tasting!

We look forward to sharing our upcoming explanations about honey with you!

Ode of Remembrance - Te Reo Māori

Room 10 learnt about the Ode of Remembrance in both English and Te Reo Māori.  They were asked to show their understanding by selecting images that reflected the words.  They were then asked to record themselves reading the Ode of Remembrance.

It has been a challenge to learn how to pronounce Māori words and read them out loud, but with practice makes perfect!

It was interesting to see how poetry and words can be meaningful in any language.

Lest we forget.

Here is Constance's rendition.

Here is Curtys' rendition.

Here is Cerenity's rendition.

Compass Poppies

Today Room 10 created circles with different radius lengths using compasses to create ANZAC poppies.

We found it challenging to construct the circles.  Some found that if you moved the paper around, that made it easier.  Some found the bigger circles were easier to construct than the very small ones.

We had to make poppy flowers that were small, medium and large.

The small poppy had an outer circle with the radius of 5cm and an inner circle of 1cm.  The medium poppy had an outer circle of 7cm and an inner circle of 2cm.  The large poppy had an outer circle radius of 10cm and and inner circle radius of 3cm.

We learnt that poppies are significant symbols of remembrance during ANZAC commemorations as they were the first flowers to bloom on battle grounds, so for us left behind, they can also represent a new start or new growth and that we should try our best to live as our soldiers fought so hard to give us our fresh starts and freedom we enjoy today.

Lest we forget.

Here are some photos of our learning:

And here is our final class wreath, ready for our memorial on Thursday:

Room 10's Waka Experience

Room 10 was given the opportunity given by the Okeanos Foundation to sail the Waitematā harbour with an amazing crew on the Aotearoa 1 waka haurua (double hulled catamaran).

Just like the movie 'Moana' we sailed out on a beautiful day and reflected on the gifts and knowledge of our ancestors, the importance of the sea and connected this learning back to our learning about our local awa - after all...what goes in the awa, eventually ends up in the moana!

Thank so much to the Okeanos Foundation for this amazing experience.  It is one we will never forget!

Here is a movie of our experience:

Mandala Art - Classroom Resources

Room 10 have taken an interest to Mandala art.  Mandala means circle in Tibetan and it is a sacred practice to Buddhists.  It helps with meditation, mindfulness and calmness.  We worked in groups to create Mandala art using classroom resources.  As we were creating them, we noticed that we were really focussed and wanted to make our Mandalas look tidy and symmetrical.  We are going to continue researching about Mandalas and how we can extend our thinking to Extended Abstract of the SOLO framework.  That means thinking beyond ourselves - which Mandalas help us to do.  Here are photos from this learning experience.

The River Talks - Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au!

Last Friday, we walked with Room 9 to Point England Reserve to attend The River Talks - presented by MAD AVE.  A community group based in Glen Innes.  We enjoyed learning about the health of our awa while enjoying some of the artists present their work.  We watched dances, listened to poems and drums, viewed artworks, and learned from people from our council and students from the local kura kaupapa Māori.

Here are some key photos and video from the day:

You can read how students in Room 10 felt about the experience by reading their reflections - some have been linked below:

Constance's River Talks Reflection

Huriata's River Talks Reflection

Perenara's River Talks Reflection

Kanye's River Talks Reflection

Azuredream's River Talks Reflection

Ko te rā Tuakana/Teina: Tā mātou hikoi ki te awa (Tuakana/Teina Day - Our walk to the creek!)

Yesterday we buddied up with Room 1 for an afternoon of Tuakana/Teina learning.  We walked to our very local creek and made some beginning observations as part of our inquiry into Te Taiao o Tāmaki (the environment of Tāmaki).  We noticed many interesting things:

• That the heavy rain from the day before had brushed the grass forward like hair.
• The the water level - which raised suddenly, from the rain and then dropped again, left behind a lot of rubbish - which comes from us!
• That the grate at the end of the creek, before the ocean was blocked and covered with grass, branches and mud.
• That the nearest river - Tāmaki River - which leads to the Waitematā is connected to our drain pipes!

We enjoyed getting outside and sitting and observing the water.  We can't wait to get back and to put our inquiry into action!

Nau mai, haere mai ki te tau rua mano, tekau ma whitu! (Welcome to 2017!)

Nau mai hoki mai ki tēnei rangitaki o Ruma Tekau!  Ko tēnei tō mātou haerenga i tēnei tau.  Pānuitia, tirohia, ā, tuhia tō whakaaro e pā ana ki ā mātou mahi!

Ko te kaupapa matua o tēnei wahanga o te tau, ko 'Te Taiao o Tāmaki.'  Ko te tino tumanako, ka whāngai mātou te whenua o Papatūanuku, me te wai o Tangaroa.  Ka mahi mātou hei kaitiaki o tō mātou taiao.

Welcome back to the blog of Room 10!  This is our journey this year.  Read, view and write your thoughts and comments to our work!

Our focus this term is Te Taiao o Tāmaki (The environment of Tāmaki).  We hope to learn how to nurture our earth and waterways so that we can work as guardians of our environment.

We look forward to sharing our journey with you!