Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

This morning we have been writing stories in Te Reo. Watch out for these posted on our individual blogs soon.

Here is some of the vocabulary we can recall:

waewae - leg
awa - river
nui - big
kakariki - green
whero - red
aporo - apple
aroha - love
panana - banana
ārini - orange
te - the
whakamataku - awesome
haere tonu - keep going
reka - delicious
ataahua - beautiful
tenei ra - today
pāngarau - maths
tama - boy
tuhituhi - writing
rā rima - daily 5
hui - meeting/team talk
waiata - song
korero/whakaronga - oral language (talk/listen)
kura -school

Parkour Google Drawings

We are becoming experts at Google Drawing to illustrate our writing. For more examples have a look at our individual blogs.

Korero about outdoor art

We are learning to use precise language.

There were hedges along the bank of the mural - Isla

There were hidden butterflies.

I saw the little mushroom houses that are made from cardboard - Hassan

I saw a spider, it had 7 legs not 8 -Nishant

I saw the 3D mushroom houses. They were made from something I don't know. Nicholas

Kauri Team Assembly

Stencil Art criteria

Genius hour: Art that grows

Max - If I make moss grow, how can I turn it into art?

Jackson - How can I make art out of plants?

Anuhus - Is it possible to make optical illusion moss art?

Raedence/Terangi/Anna - Will growing moss art work?

Isla - How can I make art out of plants?

James - How can you make art with flax from the ground?

Jamie/Ivan/Dakota - How can we make art out of moss?

Zari - How can we make fern art?

Jawad - How could we make the school logo on the roof, out of something nature?

Janriche - How can I turn moss to art?

Daniel - Can you take away moss and make colourful growing art?

Summer - 

Whaea - What other types of art can we grow?

Reading for the fun of it.