Measurement - learning about LENGTH

Kia Ora everyone,

This term in mathematics we're learning about measurement. In week 3, on Friday we were very excited to start learning and developing our awareness about length through the planned activity - 'Worms'. 

In this activity, the teacher gave us a ball of play dough to make long and short worms.Then the students were asked to describe their worms by saying - My worm is long; My worm is fat; My worms is tiny. Later on, we were told to make a worm that is short and discussed using these questions - How do we know that our worm is short? Is my worm the same as everyone else's? and Why? We also made other shapes of worms like long, wiggly and thin to see and compare different lengths. 

Our learning outcome: To compare lengths from the same starting point using the material. 

Enjoy our photos and videos below: 

   

    

Thank you for checking out your kids' learning blog. Looking forward to reading some comments for us. Faafetai 😃 

Week 4's School Assembly & Room - 8's Award Winners

Talofa ia i latou uma dragon's Whanau and Caregivers,

On Friday, we had the whole school assembly, and it was our privilege to see the beautiful performance by Awesome Aliens and Fiery Taniwhas. As always we started off with New Zealand Anthem following with some school notices, the performance, award winners from each class, reading eggs and mathletics winners. 

Check out and enjoy our photos and videos also please do leave us a comment... 

Reciting New Zealand National Anthem

 Here we are showing our PRIDE Values all the time 

Congratulations Carlos and Saint for receiving awards

Our School's netball team won the best banner award

Ka Pai !!!Carlos for receiving the Participation award for always participating by sharing his ideas during discussions in class. Proud of you, Carlos

Ka Pai !!! Saint for receiving Caught Being Good award for sounding out unknown words when he's reading independently. Proud of you, Saint  

We would like to say thank you (faafetai) whanau for checking out our blog and we hope you must have enjoyed all the photos and videos as well. 👍 😃 

           

Week - 2 Road Safety Week with Constable Dan

Kia Ora Dedicated Dragon's loving and caring whanau,

As last week was the Road Safety week at school, on Tuesday Constable Dan came to our class to teach us how to stay safe on the road either by walking or travelling in any vehicle. Also, he taught us about the importance of using the booster seats in our cars if we are below 148cm tall and if we don't use them what could go wrong. He took us to his own police car and showed us how to sit on the booster seat and how to buckle up our seat belts properly. Then he taught us how to cross the road safely using the zebra crossing outside our school - STOP, LOOK - both sides of the road AND LISTEN - for the traffic before we cross the road. While crossing the road we shouldn't walk too fast or too slow just keep walking and reach on the other side of the road safely. 

Please have a look at our informative pictures and also talk to your children about what did they learn and see.

Here you go...   

 

Bernard Mangakahia Mana - The Spirit of Polynesia

Hello to our lovely Whanau, I hope you're enjoying your beautiful weekend with 'Dedicated Dragons'. Welcome back to our week 2's blog as we have had lots of events happened at our school and we are very glad to share with you all.   

On Monday, 8th of May - we welcomed and enjoyed BERNARD MANGAKAHIA's performance. It was just absolutely mind-blowing for all of us, and we are very fortunate to witness different culture's clothes and dance through his performance on the same stage. He taught us about how important it is to be positive even though you feel like you can't do it. Always BELIEVE IN YOURSELF as one of our personal strengths which can help us achieve anything in our life. He also added by saying the more we travel all around we tend to learn more from different experiences. Bernard also emphasised on that it's quite important to know your whanau's heritage and background. And always stay connected with them as they give you an inner strength to fight back in hard times. 

Dedicated Dragons were extremely impressed the way he imitated different animals using the Hula Hoops !!! He also shared with us the actions from the Native Indians, the Maori, the Hawaiian and Hip Hop culture. 

Enjoy some photos and videos were taken on that day and please talk to our dragons about it as well. I am sure they will be pleased to share their wonderful experience with you.  

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