Team Maunga Supporting Local Camp

On Tuesday and Wednesday Team Maunga had a sleepover at school. We went to lots of local places including; Waiomio Caves, Kawakawa Train, The Parrot Place, Rainbow Falls Mini Golf. We also had Caro's Crazy Critters come to school on Tuesday evening and we got to have pony rides. We supported local businesses by shopping at Kaikohe New World and our dinner was from Dominoes Kerikeri, lunch on Wednesday was from Redwoods Cafe, Kerikeri. 

We felt really good about supporting local and we know the local businesses did, too! Team Maunga had a really good time!! 

Here are some words Team Maunga used to describe our trip!

Fun, Cool, Awesome, Great Sleepover, Camp was wicked, Awesome movie, The Best, Amazing. 

We really appreciated our parent helpers who came on the trip!! 

Thank you Parent Helpers. 

  

'Our Place'

 'Our Place'

This was Team Maunga's entry into our school's Movie Event that was canceled because of Covid this year.

A collaborative film by Team Maunga

Directors: Flynn & Finley

Director of Photography: Flynn

Starring: Team Maunga

Voice Actress: Finley

Story Board Creators: Team Maunga

Script Writing: Team Maunga

Editor and Music: Finley

Production Designers: Subira, Mackenzie, James Hawaiki Roa, Freya, & Flynn

Robotics - The Gruffalo Bee-Bots

 Team Maunga have been learning to use the bee-bots. We got creative and attached a mouse to the bee-bots. Team Maunga children then helped the mouse get to the nut, in order to do that they had to dodge the 'bugs' - The Gruffalo, Snake, Fox and Owl. It was great to see the children communicating in their groups and supporting each other to work out which direction the mouse needed to go.

Check out your children's Seesaw account to see their robotic learning.  

Computational Thinking can be practiced by using our own bodies and leading someone from one point to another without bumping into obstacles along the way. 

Different language that can be used; go forward, go back, turn left, turn right, turn clockwise, turn anti-clockwise. 

Challenge: During lockdown can you use your knowledge of Computational Thinking to lead someone from one point to another?

Olympic Fun Day 2021

 On Friday Team Moana organised an Olympic Fun Day for the whole school.

We had so much fun choosing different activities to participate in. Some were really challenging especially the balancing games. We really liked the dodge ball game and the bow and arrow target game.

We hope Moana do this again we had an amazing time!

Welcome Back to Term 3

 Welcome back to Term 3! We are so lucky to term to have a group of new children in our class - Priyah, Amokura, Flynn, Finley, Odessah, Freya, Kaira and Tayani. This term we are very busy with our learning, movie making, Cross Country, Auckland Trip and School Production! It is going to go quickly, we are so lucky to have a student teacher in our class on a Thursday to support your tamariki in their learning, her name is Jamie Smith - Miss Smith to the children. We look forward to seeing you all during the term for various activities. Here are some an updated photos of Team Maunga - can you see the silly faces we are pulling?

Mrs C's Farewell - Book Character Day

Last Thursday we dressed up as our favourite book character to celebrate Mrs C's last day as our librarian. We had a grand parade through the daycare and around the local community. 

Can you guess who we are?

We will really miss Mrs C in the library. However we are really lucky that she is coming in once a week next term to volunteer in our class! We're also looking forward to visiting our new librarian, Aimee, in the library.

Outside Classroom Day 2021

 On Thursday 20th May 2021 we celebrated outside classroom learning day. 

We had an outdoor scavenger hunt around the school. We had to work together to search for a range of objects and record our findings with our group.

The winning group for 2021 were Cairo, Tyler, and Abraham. They quickly found the items and worked as a team sticking together throughout the scavenger hunt. They showed great teamwork and listened to each others ideas. 

A highlight of the scavenger hunt was being blown away by Matua Ken and his leaf blower!

Pink Shirt Day

 Today we promoted Anti-Bullying by wearing PINK to school. We had lots of Team Maunga children wear pink to support this cause! 

Today we talked with the children about bullying and the importance of accepting people for who they are! We are all unique and different and that is OK! Team Maunga had lots to say about this and how they should always be kind and caring to their peers and ALWAYS awhi our friends and peers. 

“Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora – Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying!”

Matua Hoani visits to teach the "Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme"

 This term we have been lucky enough to have Matua Hoani come into Ohaeawai School and teach us the "Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme". This programme is run by the New Zealand Police and the aim is;

Aim of the programme;

Keeping Ourselves Safe is a comprehensive child abuse prevention programme for schools. Its purpose is to:

• teach students a range of safe practices that they can use when interacting with other people, both online and face to face
• teach students how to recognise the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, and encourage students who have been or are being abused to seek help
• prevent abuse by making parents and teachers more aware of their responsibilities to help students avoid abuse.

This programme is running for 4 weeks on a Tuesday. Your children will bring home homework to support their learning. They are learning their address and parents contact numbers and also who to call incase of an emergency. 

To find out more please view the website

https://www.police.govt.nz/advice-services/personal-community-safety/school-portal/resources/successful-relationships/kos

Easter Fun

 Over the past two weeks Team Maunga and Maunga Iti have been doing lots of Easter based learning. One particular activity that the children enjoyed was the Easter Challenge around Ohaeawai School! They had to do tasks like; Say Happy Birthday to Mrs Clarke, Find someone whose name starts with a 'T', Sing the alphabet to Mrs Edwards, Solve a puzzle on the iPads and more... 

Once the tasks were completed their group were challenged to make a 'nest' for eggs out of anything they wanted - lego, sand, blocks, drawing etc.

Here are some photos of their creations!

We hope you had a fabulous Easter. 

Maunga Iti and Maunga Assembly - Week 9

This morning Team Maunga and Maunga Iti celebrated their learning for Term One at a whole school assembly. We also had lots of parents join us, we loved having such an amazing audience! Below is the slideshow of everything we did. Please check it out and comment on your children's learning. 

Duffy Role Model Assembly - Shelby Wolf aka Princess Nan

Yesterday we had a very special guest to Ohaeawai school - Shelby Wolf but we can call her Princess Nan.

Princess Nan loved reading to animals as a kid. Animals didn't judge or make comments about her reading they just listened. She then spent many years with animals at the SPCA. She now works with Auto Angel (an all-female sales team) and is currently modifying her Hot Rod muscle car ready for racing.

We can't wait to get our Duffy books to read soon. Maybe we could find an animal to read to!

 

Domino Maths

This week we used dominos for our maths learning. We looked at odd and even numbers, and number bonds to five. We also challenged them to justify their findings. You may have dominos at home for your child to explore with. Alternatively you could try this digital Dominoes Environment.