TERM 3 - Today's mahi...

Kei te mahi tatou i tenei ra...

Wednesday 4th August/

Wenerei te tuawha o Ākuhata

Panui...

  • Block Run today!

  • Dance Group - cancelled! The Friday afternoon Dance group will no longer be happening. Instead this time will be used for all MKids to learn a whole school dance (Starting in Week 3)

  • Cross Country entries close TOMORROW, so I need final decisions by the end of today please. :)

Peer Mediation

We are on Peer Mediation this week. Please check out the timetable so that you know when you are on.

If your buddy is away, please choose another Room 2 MKid to join you.

MK Fitness/ Block Run

See you on the Big Side for Fitness. You need to meet on the court when the bell goes.

Karakia me Pepeha o Mangapapa

Let's start our day with our MK Karakia and Pepeha


Through this we are meeting our te reo schoolwide progressions as we are able to;

  • Say and know the actions to the school blessing and/or karakia - He Honore

  • Say and know the actions to the school pepeha -Mangapapa Pepeha

Copy of Karakia me Pepeha mo Mangapapa

Our Maramataka

Now let's share our maramataka for today.

Through our calendar we are learning to ask/answer;

  • Today's date in te reo (day, number, month)

  • The day it was yesterday

  • The day it will be tomorrow

  • The day's weather

  • The current season

Writing - The Diving Board

The diving board

What makes a great ending? How can we link our conclusion to our introduction in a writing text?

Today we will continue writing our 'Something new' text.

Finished? Check the success criteria and our writing pathways. Do your beginning and ending connect?

Manuhiri/Visitors...

10.15-10.45am: Today Mangapapa School welcomes Renee Holmes and another Black Fern.

They are coming to speak to the school in Hall.


We will start with our karakia, pepeha and National Anthem and then they will speak to us about their experiences.


FOR US TO THINK ABOUT:

  • What does it mean to be a great audience?


  • How will we demonstrate our REACH values to our visitors?


MORNING TEA

READING FOCUS FOR TODAY...

These MKids...

Reading Skills - Digging Deep...

We talk a lot about the different features and reading skills, but do we know what they mean?

Using our Mahi Tahi and Whaiwhakaaro Learning Assets, we will explore the meanings of these different reading skills.

What to do:

  1. Each of you will be given a card with a number on it.

  2. You need to find the other three people with the same number as you. They will be your group for this activity and we learn to 'adapt to learning with different people'.

  3. Read each of the definitions and key words/examples and match them up with the Reading Skill.

  4. Remember to use your Whaiwhakaaro/Thinkers learning asset (Explain your thinking to others, Justify your thinking, Persist and take your thinking further, Make connections between new ideas and what you know)

These MKids...

Painting the Town - Renata Hopkins

(School Journal - November 2014)

Have you been to Christchurch before?

What do you notice about the buildings in this photograph?

Where else have you seen murals like this?


Today we will be exploring these questions, and the text, 'Painting the Town' as a group. Then you will need to choose from the follow up tasks below.

Painting the Town - follow up independent tasks

These MKids...

Animal Rescue Centres

What is an Animal Rescue Centre?

What animals might we find at a Rescue Centre?

Why. might those animals be there?

Let's read today's text to find out more.


Independent Literacy Learning...


When you are not completing your group Reading activities, you will be working on the following Independent tasks.


Handwriting

What to do:

  1. Complete your handwriting in your WORD WORK book.

  2. Draw x2 borders (related to the Visual Arts)

  3. Rule off and hand your book in for marking.

Handwriting - Wednesday 4th August

Integrated Inquiry Learning

Add your thinking around these questions to each of the four posters.

Remember that everyone has to add their thinking to each page, so don't write too big.

Learning Asset Check In...

Today's Learning Asset Check in focus will be around your use of your Whaiwhakaaro/Thinkers and Mahi Tahi/Collaborate Learning Assets.

LUNCHTIME

2-2.25pm - Manaijah and Michael with Vicki in Barb's Room

2.25-2.50pm - Xavier R and Ekam with Vicki in Barb's Room

The Beep Test...

Danika has asked if we can have a go at the Beep Test as a class. We will try this today.

1. What is the beep test

The beep test is a fitness test that assesses your cardiovascular endurance. Essentially you will run back and forth between two points positioned 20 meters apart.

The required running speed is determined by a preprogrammed audio tone that steadily increases in speed as each minute passes. Your goal is to keep up with the audio tone for as long as you can!

2. What are the rules

  1. You begin the beep test by standing at one end of the 20 meter area with one foot placed on the end line. You’ll hear a 5 second count before a “triple beep” which indicates the start of the test!

  2. When the test starts you need to run to the opposite side and place one foot on the end line. If you arrive at either end of the course prior to the beep, you must wait there until the beep sounds before making your way back in the opposite direction.

  3. After each level (approximately one minute), a triple beep will sound, indicating the start of the next ‘level’ of the test. Each time this occurs, the time between beeps decreases. Your running speed must then increase to maintain the required pace.

  4. You must continue back and forth over the 20-metre course until you can no longer reach the end lines in time with the beeps.

  5. The test finishes when you miss two beeps in a row.