Wallace Corporation Big Day Out

Te Whare Ruru put in a huge effort by planting over 400 native plants at the Wallace Corporation.

It is part of the riparian planting (streams and waterways) that has been ongoing since 2012. We had the assistance of Beccy from Enviroschools; Shalini, Hilton and staff from Wallace Corporation; parent helpers from Tatuanui.

We were pretty exhausted that afternoon back at school! Great job Te Whare Ruru!

Assembly Time

On Friday our class presented the assembly. We began with our musical learning around beat and rhythm. We used Djembe drums for Zum Gali Gali and drumsticks and buckets for Rad Rhythm 'The Exam'.
We shared about the iceberg illusion whereby the floating part of the iceberg is the success people see but below the waterline is the 90% of what people don't see such as perseverance, failure, sacrifice, hard work etc.
We shared our moving image artwork. We shared a bucket filling story along with pictures from the storybook by Carol McCloud.


Assembly Video

Piako Cultural Festival

Last week a number of our class participated in the Piako Cultural Festival hosted by Morrinsville Intermediate School. We were very proud of our performance and enjoyed dressing in our kapa haka costumes. We performed to the rest of Tatuanui School the day before the Festival (see photo).

Moving Image Art

We chose an image that showed movement. We translated the shape and included the colours of the rainbow - the mnemonic ROY G BIV   Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

Daily Huff 'n' Puff

Currently we are making great use of the court area with relay type fitness. It is also a chance for us to practise our skills of dribbling, passing, rolling and of course - teamwork!

Robots in the Classroom

We recently had a visit from Warren from Sitech. He showed us Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot and how to programme these small robots to follow a set of instructions. We were all pretty keen to have a go ourselves! Here is a group of us trying to instruct Blue-Bot through a maze we created.

Shrack

The re-use of a wooden palette to hold our class footwear.
Combine shoe and rack and you get "Shrack"