Pink Shirt Day

 Kōrero mai, Kōrero atu, Mauri tū, Mauri ora 

Speak up, Stand together, Stop Bullying

That was the focus for this year's Pink Shirt Day. We showed our support with a mufti day and collected over $240 for the Pink Shirt Day organisation. Great going Waikowhai!  

Here is Haumia dressed up for the occasion...

Our Dance For Production

We have been busy practising our class dance for the production coming up in Week 4. Here is a short teaser of what to expect (from our first practise this term). I can't wait to see how it will look with everyone in costume!

 

Maori Language Moment

This week sees the beginning of Māori Language Week. 

At noon today (Monday) was Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori (Māori Language Moment). 

In Haumia we practised some reo that we have been using regularly in class for a while. We found a buddy and asked one another "kei te pehea koe?" (How are you?) and responded with things like "kei te pai" (I am well), "kei te ngenge" (I am tired), "kei te hoha" (I am annoyed), "kei te koa" (I am happy)...

Later we listened to some Māori myths about Maui and Matariki on Youtube.

Basketball

Our PE focus for the next few weeks is basketball. We had Ronan and Mikey form Sport Auckland come in today for our first session. We practised lots of skills to get used to the basketballs. First we dribbled the ball as we walked (trying not to look down)...

We dribbling low...

And we dribbling high...

We crouched down and dribbled...

We even sat and dribbled...

And we also practised passing and catching...

Now we are looking forward to learning more.

 

Matariki Activities

On Thursday this week we celebrated Matariki with some schoolwide activities. in the Middle School we made our way around to each class to try out things like: 

• Making model manu tukutuku (kites) and playing a game called mū tōrere ngāwari with Mr Riceman and Mr Hing-Windsor

• Matariki star art with Mrs McLellan

• Whai (string) games and woven stars with Mr Rattenbury

Here are some photos of the woven stars...

And some string games...

Tennis

We started learning tennis this week (ongoing til the end of term). Our coach, Wayne, got us practising skills that will hep us in a game. We were put into teams and students had to balance a ball on a racket and walk it around the teams. It was tricky!

We also worked with a buddy to take turns to throw the ball (underarm) and hit it back...

Coat of Arms

As part of our inquiry (Ata-whakaaro/Reflection) we have been looking at the Coat of Arms and how in the past these have represented a part of people's identity. They can show what family, tribe, group or country somebody if from. We each created our own Coat of Arms on a shield shape that had four parts. Each part shows something about us: 

• the first letter of our name
• symbols or shapes to represent our family
• a picture of something we are good at
• things we like to do in our spare time

Here is a look at our finished work...

...don't they look amazing?!?