The Olympic Games

 
WALT skim and scan information to answer questions about the Olympics.

The Olympics began over two thousand seven hundred years ago. 

The Greeks took part in the Olympic games to celebrate the greek gods. The Olympics take place every four years . The Olympic touch was lit to let people know about the Olympic games. Only men and boys were allowed to take part. The five rings represent the five continents. The Paralympic games take place after the Olympic games. If an athlete came second they would get a silver medal.    

 

    

Our Place, Our Stories

We have been learning about the taonga in our school and community. We have also been learning our pepeha.

A pepeha is a way to introduce yourself and where you're from. A pepeha tells people about our waka, our awa, our moana, hapu, our iwi marae, maunga.

Rahi and the Patupaiarehe

 WALT explore the legend behind the game kī-o-rahi.

LEGENDS ASSEMBLY

We are learning to use descriptive language in our writing.

2-3-digit Addition Strategies

 WALT solve addition equations using a place value strategy.

2-3-digit Addition Strategies

WALT solve addition equations using a place value stratgies

I need to work on place value  Addition strategies I need to work on my 3,6 times tables.

First Draft - Mahuika Show

28.5.21

We are writing about our experience at the Mahuika Show. 

Yesterday we left school to go to a excellent show.

In the beginning there were two sisters called Kahu and Sissy. They were out in the garden doing  jobs with Nan. Kahu was complaining that sissy  wasn't doing  jobs. Kahu and sissy found a magic kete and the last buring finger nail of mahuika came out of the kete potiki turned Nan to coal kahu and sissy had to save Nan. They followed potiki to the under would to mahuika on the way pukeko kidnapped potiki and took potiki  to mahuika because mahuika put a curse on pukekos beak because pukeko was being bad.

Next steps

• Re read each sentence - does it look right? does it make sense?
• Full stops and capital letters
• Correct your spelling errors