Our entry into the Fair Go Ad Awards 2015

Unfortunately we didn't win, but we had fun making our ad! The one rule was we had to have an animal in there somewhere. Thanks a lot to MAGS farm for letting us work with their calves!

Can't Feel My Face by SEPP! (Summer, Elijah, Paris and Pauline)

Check out our talented musicians, recording with Jambus this morning.

Harry Potter in 99 seconds - by some of our R23 students!

Kia pai ō mahi kotiro ma - Nice work girls!

Owairaka staff like to korero too!

Kei te pehea koe? How are you?

He aha? What?

Kei te mamae aku taringa! My ears are sore!

Wairaka and her journey to Tamaki-makau-rau - retold by Pauline and Te Paea

Check out Pauline and Te Paea's effort!

Wairaka and her journey

Wairaka - Memory cards

Ana-Zariya and Lavinia made these memory cards to help us learn more about Wairaka. How many pātai (questions) can you whakahoki (answer)?

Tihei's visit

We were lucky enough to have a visit from Tihei Harawira yesterday, along with a TV crew from Native Affairs! Tihei shared his amazing story with us, and even gave us a few of his unique freestyle raps. We will let you all know when the item screens on Maori Television. This was Tihei's last rap for us - enjoy!

For those wanting to know a bit more about Tihei, here is a link to his 3 minute doco: https://vimeo.com/132296801

Mingo kata

Te kupu mo tenei ra - The word for today: mingo kata - smile!
Other kupu for smile - mene, menemene, mingomingo kata...

Ātaahua!

Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori! Welcome to Maori Language Week! We will be adding at least one video a day to our blog, sharing some of the new kupu (words) we are learning. Te Kupu o te ra - the word of the day: ātaahua - beautiful.

Wairaka and the spring

Mashhuda and Nadia put together a presentation, telling the story of how Te Puna Wai-inu-roa o Wairaka came to be. Ka mau te wehi ō mahi a Nadia me Mashhuda!
Wairaka Presentation

Ms Vaughters

We were lucky enough to have a trainee teacher, Ms Vaughters, in Room 23 last term. She learnt a lot from us, and we learnt a lot from her! We wish Ms Vaughters all the best for the rest of her training, and are sure she'll become a great teacher.

Ka kite Ms Hand

Room 23's farewell video for Ms Hand...

Check out our new book reviews!

Room 23 Book Reviews

Each student has an aim to complete 20 book reviews this year. Some of us will almost certainly surpass this total, whilst others need to push themselves a little bit harder! Keep them coming Room 23.

Kawakawa for your kirimoko!

A focus for R23 this term is our Rongoa Maori (Maori medicine) garden. It is a great resource for our school, but a lot of people don't know about it and it isn't being used very much. We have been researching rongoa and plan to refresh and replant the garden this term. We also want to make it easy for our school community to know about it and make use of it.

As part of Science Week, we decided to try making Kawakawa cream, which is used to help keep your kirimoko (skin) healthy. We used Kawakawa and Tarata leaves from the Rongoa garden, bees wax from the school beehives (Thanks Mr Lyons!) and olive oil from Ms Best's kitchen. Check out our hard work - we think it turned out really well!

Our farewell video for Constable Tongotea!

Just in case you want to watch it one more time...here is Room 23's farewell video to Mr T. It was great fun to make!

Check out what we've been reading!

Our challenge for reading homework this year is to complete reviews for at least 20 books. You can check out our handy work here:

Room 23's Writing Wall

Nau mai, haere mai!

Welcome to our new classroom blog!