TERM TWO - Today's mahi...

Kei te mahi tatou i tenei ra...

Tuesday 29th June/

Turei te rua tekau ma iwa o Hune

Patrols

We are on patrols this week.

Remember, if you can't make one of your duties, please let me know as soon as you can so that we can arrange someone to cover for you.

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

Maths time!

Maths changeover today.

Room 2 Maths group can find today's learning by clicking on the button below.

Fitness

Word Work

Independent:

ph digraph - /f/

Today you will continue our mahi around the /f/ sound written by the ph digraph.

Glue this sheet into your word work book.

Write today's date.

Now add in the missing sounds, practise your ph handwriting, and decide if the pictures begin with a f or ph.

Hand your book in for marking.

Finished: Continue with your StepsWeb programme

With me:

Vowel team - 'oo' Good Food

Let's explore the Good Food sounds.

Vowel team 'oo' - Good food

Independent:

Spelling games

Below are video clips that explain how to play each of these games if you are not sure. Choose the game that you would like to explore today.

(If you do BLAH, BLAH, BLAH - use the purple pack).

MORNING TEA

Writing

We will start with two Writing warm ups which we will complete collaboratively. We will need our MAHI TAHI learning asset.

Writing Warm Up #1:

Give me Five!

Look at the image of the Skypath.

Write five nouns, five adjectives and five verbs to describe this image.

Writing Warm Up #2:

Exploring Mentor Sentences

Read the mentor sentence.

Answer each of the questions by recording your thinking.

Have a go using the sentence structure in the mentor sentence.

Our writing task

Exploring Mentor Sentences

Let's use what we have discovered from our writing warm ups to support our writing.

Plan your text.

Now start writing...

The Skypath pre-writing and writing activities

Reading time!

We will start our reading before lunch and continue after our lunch break.

Steps Web

Those of you with a STEPS account need to continue with your programme.

Silent Reading

The rest of Room 2 need to be using this time to practise their reading skills and strategies by SILENT reading!

Have you chosen the right spot?

Guided Reading

Reading with Ekam, Xavier R and Maia

This week for our reading we are exploring SPACE.

You need to look at the texts for today, and decide which text you would like to explore for today's reading.

TEXT #1

Comets

Do you want to know more about Comets?

If so, this could be the text for you!

TEXT #2

The Problem with Pluto

Do you want to know more about Pluto?

If so, this could be the text for you!

Independent Activities:

Handwriting - 29th June 2021

Handwriting...

Here is today's handwriting.

Please complete this in your Word Work Book.

Remember Kairangi/Excellence is important.

Koru writing...

If you didn't get it posted to your blog yesterday, please share your Koru writing to your blog.

Exploring Space...

If you would like to find out more about SPACE or the PLANETS, check out this website.

Our Atua...

Continue working on the slides/book creator book around the Atua that we started yesterday afternoon.

Full details can be found on yesterday's page if you were away.

LUNCHTIME

We will continue our reading in this block.