Rocksteady Room 14

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Harvesting harakeke.

Whaea Saf took us down to the creek where there is some beautiful harakeke growing by the stream. She sang a lovely karakia before telling us which strands of harakeke we could cut: Not the baby in the middle, nor its parents on either side, but the grandparents on the outside. After she'd cut some off, she showed us how to weave a star (which is what we'll be doing next week) and how to make a "clapper" which used to be given to kids to keep them busy while mum weaved. We carefully collected up the flax that had been cut and took it back to class.

Matariki: Weaving fish from card

We started our Matariki topic by reading the story about the 7 Fish of Matariki and then tried to weave our own fish out of cardboard strips as a practice run for weaving them out of harekeke (flax). It was pretty hard as our hands were a bit too small to for the strips - but we persevered and here are some of the results.

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Snakes and Ladders

In line with our theme of the term, this week we've been making our own rainy day game: A Snakes and Ladders board. We coloured the board in, wrote the numbers 1-100 and stuck on 8 snakes and 8 ladders. Some of us worked in pairs and some of us worked by ourselves.

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Be Smart Where You Park

This awesome video was put together with the help of the school prefects to show how the children can manage themselves and their learning environments. "Be Smart Where You Park". A child needs to be aware that if they are not working in a good space, then they should move. This will result in better work and more learning :)