Te Mihi Drama

As part of our Collaborative Learning goals, we wanted the children in the Te Mihi team to experience learning through their passions.

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Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged Science, English, The Arts, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 7 months ago By Melissa Isaacson

Pizza Party Fractions

Then, she did something funny. She put two of the quarters back together and we learned that two quarters is the same as one half.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Mathematics, Using Language Symbols Text, Number; Posted 7 months ago By Jeannie Young and Room 15

Breakfast Brain Food

As part of the Poihipi passion projects we have Food Technology and have been investigating different foods and learning basic food preparation and cooking skills.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Mathematics, English, Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 months ago By Shannen Neal

Sweet & Sour

As a follow up to our ‘In My Words’ collaborative inquiry, where we did some Home Science activities

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Posted in TeHuka; Tagged Science, Mathematics, English, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 months ago By Leanne Jackson

Scone for One, Anyone

The purpose of this activity was to extend their experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play, asking questions, and discussing simple models.

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Posted in TeHuka; Tagged Science, Mathematics, English, Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 months ago By Leanne Jackson

William Retell

Chose to re-enact the story of William Tell. You can see Asti playing Carl, with the apple on his head

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Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged English, Drama, The Arts, Visual Art, Using Language Symbols Text, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 months ago By Olivia Graham

Room 8’s Passion Projects

Room 8 - How can we as students articulate and explain our own understanding of our world?

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Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged English, Writing, Reading, Languages, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 months ago By Margo Clark

Mathsmatters - Hot Competition

Two Year 5 teams and four Year 6 teams pitted their wits against other students from Taupo schools and beyond

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Posted in Mathsmatters; Tagged Mathematics, Event, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 9 months ago By Colleen Green

Wonderful world of writing

Mrs O’Sullivan modelled how we could look at different parts of our dinosaur and use the words “like or as” to create a picture in the reader’s mind.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged English, Writing, Technology, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 9 months ago By Tracey O'Sullivan

Visitor from out of Space

While reading this book, Poppy, Jordyn-Lea, Patrick, Jack and Casey were very interested in what a scarecrow is and what they would be like in the real world, they wanted to create their very own scarecrow and find out.

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Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Science, Mathematics, English, Technology, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 9 months ago By Angel Chauval-Smith and Room 9