Kai Tahu Creation Story

Today we learnt the Kai Tahu Creation story because we are going to watch the Tūmahana show on Monday.  

It was a bit different from the story we already knew.  After we heard the story we talked about our favourite part.  We drew a picture to show our favourite part.  Have a look at our mahi.

When Tāne Mahuta pushed them apart and decorated them. Oliver

When Takaroa came home and him and Papatūānuku broke up.  Luke

When Papatūānuku and Rakinui had lots of babies and they were sick.  Mataius

Papatūānuku was wrong.  She should have stayed with Takaroa.  Kael

When Tāne Mahuta put stars on Rakinui.  Jekamiah

When Rakinui saw Papatūānuku and thought she was beautiful.  Kyra

When Tāne Mahuta pushed his parents apart because Rakinui asked him to.  Finn

When Tāne Mahuta put stars all over Rakinui.  Kymani

When Papatūānuku married Rakinui and left Takaroa.  Ryder

When Rakinui asked Tāne Mahuta to lift him off so that the babies would be well.  Kōwhai

Tapatahi

 We looked at how we show tapatahi (Resilience) at Rāwhiti.  We drew some pictures of times when we showed tapaathi and made a poster for our akomanga.  Have a look at our poster...

Gymnastics

 We have been going to the Christchurch School of Gymnastics for some fun gymnastics lessons.  Have a look at some of the things we got to do...

Being Scientists and Observing

 Today on our way back from Gymnastics some of us collected lots of things that we found along the way.  When we got back to kura we put them on a table and we observed them.  First, we talked about what observing meant.  We decided that it meant looking carefully at something.  It was about describing what we could see not saying what it was we were looking at.  We observed all the things that we had collected.

These are some of our observations:

There is something inside of the spikey thing.

I can smell lemons when I smell the flower.

The flowers are soft.

The spikey thing is green and pointy.

The inside of the spikey thing is brown and white.  When you touch it, it feels fluffy.  It smells funny.

The leaf is brown with spikey edges.

The stick is smooth and bendy.

This is metal, it is hard like a knife.

The green leaf looks like a knife shape.

It is prickly.

The stick is hard and feels rough.

The stone is rough and black and hard.

Then we talked to our friends and decided to put all the things in different groups.

We put all the leaves together in one group.  We also put the flowers together and the sticks together.  We decided to put all the spikey things together in one group.

We sorted things by colour.  We had a brown group and a green group and a pink one and a yellow one.

Writing about places we like to play at kura.

 We had a think about the places that we like to play at kura.  We drew a picture and then we started our sentences using I like.  Have a look at our writing...

Finn

Olive

Mataius

Oasis

Kyra

Kael

Piripi

Luke

Kōwhai

Ryder