Wairakei Primary School has entered our school caretaker into the National Caretaker competition. We have been heard on the radio talking about our caretaker and why he should win the national competition.
Hands-on tasks make our hands strong.
Supporting fine motor skills and hand/eye coordination at Wairakei Primary School. Hands-on tasks build our resilience.
Increasing our eye/hand coordination and fine motor skills helps us improve our handwriting. We are making our mark.
As part of our Inquiry ‘Mark Making - Making a Mark’ to develop better handwriting skills, we have been working on our gross motor skills. Ohaaki Team decided to have a bike day and invited Whaea Cath from KIds Bike Taupo.
There are many ways to 'make our mark'. Japanese calligraphy is one way.
Room 4 started learning about how to use their bodies to make music. This will be our focus for the term. We practised our hands, feet and voices to create sounds. We also learnt how to do the hand jive – that was lots of fun! Then we got into groups and started making up our own routines to share.
We have been very excited to be the assembly hosts. We decided to dress in disco clothes to enhance our dance performance. We practised every day, morning and afternoon. We focused on counting as we realised the dance moves were in a pattern of 8, 4, 4, 8, 4, 4. This really helped us with our timing. We also worked hard on having sharp, strong arm movements and remembering to dance on the balls of our feet as this made us lighter, so we weren’t thumping on stage.
We were very pleased to have such a wonderful parent turn out to support us, it made us feel very proud of all our hard work.
In Room 1 we are doing descriptive writing around a special person and I am doing mine around my mum. We have to write 4 paragraphs and the first paragraph is about what my mum looks like. I have made a video to show you what I wrote.
We are learning to add adjectives to our story writing to make our stories more interesting. We brainstormed ideas on the board and then set off to write our stories.
Check out some of our athletes competing at the 2018 Ironkidz in Taupo. Some of our school leavers from last year even made an appearance.
Room 5 has been learning the song ‘You’ve Got Food On Ya Face’ (YGFOYF) by New Zealand performer Kath Bee. It is a really catchy song with very tricky, tongue-twisty lyrics. That meant we had to practise a lot, both as a class and with a buddy on a device. We had to repeat those hard parts lots of times. We learned to open our mouth to make the words clear. We also made our own moves for the song which meant we had to listen to the meaning of the lyrics.
Chengdu No. 7 Primary-Middle School, China, Cultural Exchange to New Zealand schools February 2018
Yuko and Kengo from Japan visited Rooms 5 and 6 at Wairakei Primary School. Here are the highlights.
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This blog post is brought to you by Finn, Fletcher, Izzy and Onyx new Wairakei School Reporters. We are part of the new Reporters Club at School. We are training to be school reporters, reporting on events and learning around the school. We interviewed Angus Martin and he told us about the science he has done.
Room 3 has been reading The Wild Robot by Peter Brown as part of our Chapter Chat and Twitter Chat activities. It is a wonderful story about a Robot who learns to understand and speak animal languages on a deserted island.
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We were excited to get a letter from the Animal Sanctuary in Auckland who received over $200 from our Dare to Care inquiry. We didn’t expect a thank you but it was a real buzz to know our money has gone to a worthy cause.
As part of our Term 4 inquiry we are to ‘Face a Challenge - Create a Challenge’ This week we were set a challenge that involved a team of 4 having to stack cups in a pyramid using the equipment provided.
On Monday 25th September the Te Huka team went to visit the Taupo Airport. We have been learning about flight this term so a trip to the airport was a great celebration to end our inquiry.
Alex and Brooke explain their flying object.
We have been very lucky in Room 14. Max’s mum Debi has been teaching yoga in our class for the past six weeks. We have really enjoyed learning about yoga. We have learnt about stretching, breathing and being calm. Here is a short video of our favourite yoga moves.
It was a combined effort when Room 9 and Room 2 took to the stage in the school production. First up the students depicted various activities of village life using mime. Next the students sang the waiata Nga Tamariki O Matariki . Whaea Margo choreographed the actions to the waiata. What a great way to show the key competency of participating and contributing by being part of the school production. We think the audience enjoyed it too.
Room 9 has been exploring how to tell a story using facial expressions and gestures instead of using words. In small groups we set about retelling the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Each group decided who was going to be what character and how they were going to enact the story. It was impressive how many of the students were able to show caring and sadness with their acting even though they were having way too much fun. We hope you enjoy the video clips from each group.
Room 9 has been exploring how to tell a story using facial expressions and gestures instead of using words. In small groups we set about retelling the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Each group decided who was going to be what character and how they were going to enact the story. It was impressive how many of the students were able to show caring and sadness with their acting even though they were having way too much fun. We hope you enjoy the video clips from each group.
Room 9 has been exploring how to tell a story using facial expressions and gestures instead of using words. In small groups, we set about retelling the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Each group decided who was going to be what character and how they were going to enact the story. It was impressive how many of the students were able to show caring and sadness with their acting even though they were having way too much fun. We hope you enjoy the video clips from each group.
Room 9 has been exploring how to tell a story using facial expressions and gestures instead of using words. In small groups we set about retelling the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Each group decided who was going to be what character and how they were going to enact the story. It was impressive how many of the students were able to show caring and sadness with their acting even though they were having way too much fun. We hope you enjoy the video clips from each group.
Room 9 has been exploring how to tell a story using facial expressions and gestures instead of using words. In small groups we set about retelling the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Each group decided who was going to be what character and how they were going to enact the story. It was impressive how many of the students were able to show caring and sadness with their acting even though they were having way too much fun. We hope you enjoy the video clips from each group.
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Tia taught Ava how to publish her story in Explain Everything.
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