Aotearoa Christmas, we are singing this for prizegiving.

We hope you enjoy learning this song with us.

Tuwharetoa Haka

This is a 45 second demonstration of haka by Matua Mikaere our Year 4-6 Senior school teacher. He is demonstrating the words and actions we would like your child to learn for their Mahi Whakaari (Play) that we will be showing in Term 4. Thank you for helping your child to learn these actions. Kia Ora

FOTOPEDIA & SKITCH: Historic Centre of Oaxaca, America.

Today three tamariki and I worked with Paula on creative ideas using the school IPADS, we used the fotopedia app (digital pictures to inspire writing) and Skitch app a useful and effective tool that they can use to write on top of their picture from fotopedia. Amazing Amazing.....we did have some difficulty uploading their work from the IPADS and we had to use a keydrive and my teacher laptop to upload their mahi. The children worked hard and had so much fun. I will use this tool again as a tool to inspire the children's writing....Whaea Liz

Eiffel Tower

By Maioha

Japanese lady

By Debonaire

Mount Taranaki

By Harlem

Making Bread earlier in the year - Our Photostory

http://youtu.be/wXVX3nuemiE Can you recognise the first speaker? Who is he? What were we learning about? What was important to know about making bread? What was your favourite part about that day? Enjoy!

Te Manu Taunaha

This was composed by Mikaere Norris, teacher in Space 9 bilingual class. He composed it for the upcoming Rotorua Primary Schools' Cultural Festival for our School group that is performing in it next term. The song talks about the whakapapa of Kawaha, our school identity and incorporates our school values. It is about the bird claiming the lands as he flies over it....the words and update on the meaning of this will be updated at a later time by Matua Mikaere.

Geometry........

Rotational Symmetry.... on PhotoPeach Its been an interesting last few weeks learning about tesselations. The children were learning to create a simple tesselation which you can come in and see displayed on our classroom maths wall. They also made butterflies to show symmetry (reflection). It was a challenge folding and cutting our the shapes we each needed to create a paper butterfly. We also used our pencil drawing skills to show the refection of objects or people's cut out magazine faces. Overall the experience was enjoyed by all...especially when children made comments like "I like maths this is fun!". Kia kaha tonu Space 8 for the rest of your school term, we have 3 weeks to go!!!

Kia Value Cards 2012 - Fortnightly Award Winners!!

A huge congratulations to Mairangi and Isla for being the first students in our school to receive an All 3 Values Award certifcate and prize. The girls have each earned a Kia Kaha, Kia Maia and Kia Manawanui card during morning tea or lunch breaks. At every fortnight assembly a student will receive a prize such as the items you see in this collage of photos. The prizes range from a calculator, to books, sports equipment and art items and much much more. As a fact our class have earnt 32 kia values cards in the last 8 weeks, to earn a class reward Space 8 has to earn 50 kia cards to receive a Kia Card Class Reward.

WAIKITE JAB UNDER 6 BLACK - MOST OUTSTANDING

Tau ke Taureikura! We are proud of you for your success for being the most OUTSTANDING player in your team. Question: How do you feel about your success? Answer: Special. Question: Will you be playing J.A.B rugby again next year? Answer: Yes. Question: What has been the best thing that you have enjoyed about rugby this year? Answer: Playing Question: What makes you outstanding/What makes an outstanding player like you "Outstanding"? Answer: The best supporter in my team, I am a team player, play hard and give it my best all the time.

Congratulations Taureikura...Thank you for sharing your wonderful news.

PLAYER OF THE DAY & GYMNASTICS RIBBONS

Recently Maycee entered a North Island competition and received third in Floor and it was amazing as her teacher to go and watch her in person with her mum, brother and sister and Aunty. She actually started on the day that the 2012 London Olympics started!!!! And then Daniel plays netball and received the player of the day - fantastic Daniel. Congratulations to you both

We know that Taureikura has been player of the day.....his photo is going to updated at a later time. Cheers

Ta Pikitia is fun!! We learn Te Reo with our friends

Ta Pikitia - Language Acquisition programme on PhotoPeach This is a TUAKANA/TEINA exercise,that helps us to learn Maori language in a fun way with our peers. We have seven Ta Pikitia groups. Each group has a tuakana who is responsible for collecting the scrapbook and coloured crayon. Each person has a turn to draw - the korero is the MOST IMPORTANT part of the activity. There are 3 people in the group. We play a online countdown timer to help us stay focused and to keep to our 10 minutes. OUR SUCCESS CRITERIA: Korero i roto i te reo.

PB4L Kia Card Certificate

Congratulations Mairangi, for being the first in the whole school to post your PB4L kia Card notice at the office today. We are so proud of you. MAIRANGI WAS THE FIRST TO POST HER 3 VALUES CARD INTO the PRINCIPALS POSTCARD CERTIFICATE BOX - and it is an amazing postcard!!!!! Now the photo taken here of Mairangi posting a card is the one where she has earned one of each Kia Value, so she has earnt a Kia Kaha, Kia Maia and Kia Manawanui. So now she is in the fortnightly draw to win a prize.

PRINCIPAL student of the fortnight

Kua timata te wahanga tuatoru - Ko wai te tamaiti tino toa i enei wiki? Kia Ora, Ko Daniel. Tau ke! Daniel ki te mahia i nga mahi pai, ki te tuhituhi i roto i te reo Maori. WHAKATAUKI MO TE WIKI TUARUA: MAURI TU, MAURI ORA!!! WHAKATAUKI MO TE WIKI TUATAHI: WHANGAIA KIA TUPU, KIA PUAWAI....

Class Discussion - Formula for Communication

This afternoon we revised our brainstorm ideas about COMMUNICATION....WE played a game of Chinese Whispers to illustrate what we need in order to communicate. We found that we need: A MESSAGE, we need to SEND the message, the message needs to be DECODED, and then it needs to be received by the RECEIVER. We played the game two times and each time the message ended differently. We realised it is important that it needs to be understood. We talked more about what communication looks like, and we think that a message can be sent through a variety of ways, e.g. body language, pictures, words, letters, texts, phonecalls, voice calls, voice messages etc...WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE...... By Space 08

Te wiki o te Reo Maori

Arohatia i te reo.....Love the language....!!!! Kia kaha koutou ki te korero Maori. Naku noa, Space 08

Teacher News!!!

This week at our latest teacher meeting we were reminded about what "effects" our classrooms the most - If you would like more information, google; John Hattie - Visible learning. We looked at several things, like;

We had to rank which were most important from 1 being MOST important to 12 LEAST important. Obviously those ranked from 1 to 6 were ranked as the things that will most likely make a positive change in your child's learning in school. I LIKE THE RESULTS: THE TOP THREE THINGS THAT CAUSE THE MOST POSITIVE CHANGE IN A CLASSROOM ARE;

1, STUDENT EXPECTATIONS 2, CLASSROOM DISCUSSION 3,FEEDBACK Come in some time and have a chat about this, it's wonderful news. Leave a positive comment if you like. Thank you

Maori Television ; KORERO MAI

Kia Ora Whanau ! There are some amazing Te Reo Maori language programmes out there, one of them broadcasts through your own television or you can use your internet to view it.

http://www.maoritelevision.com/ajaxservicepage.aspx?templatename=richvideo&epid=27057 http://www.maoritelevision.com/ajaxservicepage.aspx?templatename=richvideo&epid=27057

Waiata - E nga iwi e, haere mai, haere mai

Kia Ora koutou....Youtube can be a useful tool. Our whanau team - Kowhai are learning a waiata this week. Take a look at the youtube link, this was taken in 2004 by a Kohanga Reo in London we believe according to the post. Learn along with us. One day we might include our Kowhai team performing this waiata....keep posted, WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!! Whaea Liz

Korero Mai

This is the second week of the holidays. I have been watching "MAORI TELEVISION" they have an awesome Maori language programme that teaches te reo Maori in an interactive way. Today they taught Toia Mai - the haka.

Interesting things to know about KORERO MAI that are similar to what we learn in class: They teach kupu hou. They teach commands. They teach waiata and haka. Two things we can do in our class similar to Korero Mai: Role play. Watch this space!

WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?

Ko tenei te wiki tuatahi mo nga hararei: This is the first week of the July school holidays. Whaea Liz is looking into our new topic called "COMMUNICATION". She would like to invite you to share your ideas about communication...you can leave her a message at hoganl@kawaha-point.school.nz or come in and see her to share your aspirations and ideas for this terms topic or leave a positive post. Communication: You need a message, you need a way of sending that message, you need a person at the other end to receive the message.

Can you guess what message this picture is sending? Who might be receiving this message and where do you think this message might have come from? How do you know that?

Matariki

This morning we watched a Youtube video of Toni Rolleston-Cummins reading her book she wrote called The Seven Sisters of Matariki. We enjoyed it, we hope you do too. After we listened to the story we made a Matariki calendar and talked about the similarities and differences of her story and the Story of the Seven Mischief stars written by Space 10 many many years ago. http://youtu.be/RKL6V69RLxo

CLASS NEWS

Hi everyone - today we sent home children's class reports. WEEK 10 - In the last week of school! On Monday we are going to prepare our vegetables for the Hangi. On Tuesday at 8:30 am we will be putting the hangi down in the hole, and it will be out by 1pm ready to be served. We are going to serve hangi to 320 people, thank you to everyone who has donated kai, and for those people who are going to be available to help prepare and serve. On Wednesday we have parent interviews from 1.30pm to 7.30pm. On Thursday the bilingual are having a Matariki celebration day, we will be making Maori kites, calendars, playing stick and string games and lots of other fun activities. On Friday we are going to enjoy a treat - Whaea Liz promises an iceblock for earning 150 points, we have earnt 110 points so far!!!! Kia kaha tatou...... SPECIAL MESSAGE: We wish Shulzae a safe trip overseas. We are all thinking about you and your family. Kia kaha koutou, ma te atua e manaaki. Arohanui.

Change - Tini - Making HOKEY Pokey!!!!!!!!

Today we learnt a great deal about Geothermal activity. It was amazing to learn about how unique and special Rotorua is to have geothermal activity. Whaea Emma at the Whare Taonga (Museum) talked to us about the different layers we have in the earth, like the INNER CORE, OUTER CORE, MANTLE and the CRUST, we helped her to guess some of those layers. Oh my we learnt that the bubbles we see coming out of the mud pools is created by the gas inside the magma, and it comes up and up and eventually there is a volcanic eruption. DID YOU KNOW that Rotorua is in a Caldera from 140,000 years ago (so the experts say). We did lots of things, we went up to the top of the museum to look at the places formed by the Rotorua volcanic eruption thousands of years ago. We went for a walk to sulphur point BEHIND the museum to measure the temperature of the water, and to use all our senses to describe what we could SEE,FEEL,HEAR AND SMELL. Last of all we made HOKEY Pokey because this illustrates how magma is superheated under the ground, underneath us. Did you know that the bubbles you see is the gas that forms from underneath, and it mixes with the mud and water around it. Then what happens is, it builds up so much pressure it finds a way to escape, causing a volcanic eruption, then its so hot it oozes out, and then once it comes to the surface it hardens, and hockey pokey is an example of magma, in other words HOT LAVA, and once it gets to the top, it cools. WE HAD FUN today......... Last of all we would like to give our sincere thanks and appreciation to Te Arawa Iwi for donating the cost of hiring us a bus for us to use....and thank you to Matua Jimmy, thank you to Matua Wallace, and Whaea Analise for supervising us today. TENA KOUTOU KATOA

Pihanga reading group did a wonderful play

The three billy goats gruff retold by Clive Summons on PhotoPeach Class Photographer: Tyreece Children in the play: Maioha, Isla, Crisstiano, Debonaire,Gianne

CHANGE: INvisible Writing Day one

Today Space08 did another experiment, by squeezing the lemon juice into a lid, we then used a cotton bud to soak up the liquid. We used this liquid to write a hidden message. We can't see it at the moment, because its INVISIBLE. Next (This Friday day TWO) we will use an Iron (heat) to REVEAL our hidden messages (pictures) to each other. This is day ONE of our experiment.

Ko Gianne tenei

Ko Isla tenei

Ko Teare tenei

Ko Takoha tenei

Ko Taureikura tenei WE HOPE YOU COME BACK TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR HIDDEN MESSAGES!!!

We are bloggoing together!

Today our class had a session on blogging, we used a wallwisher website to post some post its to share what we think about change. We only added two today....watch this space for more

ICT - Computers - How we use computers to enhance our writing; Well last term we really wanted to learn how to green screen. Green screening is about cutting out a picture and adding it to a new background. Whaea Liz found out that we can use a program called pizap to do this the easy way. This means we don't need a green screen background. Follow these easy steps; 1.go to www.pizap.com 2.Edit a photo 3.upload a photo (preferably the background first) 4.Add a cut out - upload another picture (the picture you want to edit onto the background) 5.Use the Green circle (paintbrush) to highlight the parts you want to show up on the background, you can rub it out by clicking the red button to rub out any mistakes. 6.then click finish 7.Lastly just download it to save it onto your computer not the save button. Download first then save it into a file. We have 2 experts in our class: Taureikura and Ahina. Ask them if you need help. Here are some examples of our work

If you think we are A M A Z I N G please leave us a positive comment; thanks!

What is yeast?

This term (term 2) we are learning about CHANGE - chemistry around us. We are looking at reversable and irreversable changes. So far we have baked bread and we have made jelly. In this example we looked at "what is yeast?" and how yeast works to make dough rise. We loved making and eating our bread.

Mum and Dad ask me about how I made the bread;

We also made jelly. This was fun, we learnt that jelly can dissolve in cold or hot water but it will dissolve faster in hot water because heat makes the parts of water move faster. Our jelly pictures will be uploaded at another time: sorry.

Term 2 : Leisure and Work

Last term we did a lot of work on leisure and work and then we looked at "what a balanced life?" might look like. It was an amazing opportunity to share with Tyreece what his life after school looks like. For example, Tyreece is learning to play guitar once a week with a tutor, and sings with his Dad in their family band. He owns a couple of horses and we went to his house (farm) to watch him ride his horse. But first he had to brush his horse (work) before riding it (leisure). It was amazing! We think that Tyreece has a balanced life because he works hard to look after his horse and then he gets to ride it, he plays guitar and sometimes plays a tune or two for us to enjoy. He also plays sport and is learning how to be a team member, plus he is learning how to stay fit. WOW - TUMEKE KOE TYREECE, from Space 8 children.

Tyreece and his horse on PhotoPeach

Mahi tahi - working together

I tenei taumata (1), i te wiki 3, Ko nga tamariki a Space 8 kei te whakawhiti korero e pa ana ki te taenga mai o nga Maori me nga Pakeha ki Aotearoa. Ko nga tamariki, Ko Te Whetu, Ko Takoha, Ko Maioha, Ko Dominic Term one, week 3, the children were learning about the Treaty of Waitangi, and the arrival of Maori and Pakeha in the 1800s and the reasons why Pakeha wanted to come and live or work in Aotearoa. As one activity the children worked in small groups to sequence 6 pictures (events). At which they all had to agree, and also talk about and discuss why those pictures belonged there with some support from the teacher.

Letters to our parents

In week 5 of this term, each person in our class wrote a letter to invite our parents and caregivers to come and listen to our reading group read. This week Whaea Bernie came in to listen to Tongariro reading group.

Maycee read clearly and smoothly. Rheeco had fun reading out loud. Hoani worked out to sound out the words.

Thank you Whaea Bernie, we can't wait to read to you again! Let our teacher know when you are available, we would love you to come and listen to us read!

Overnight Noho Marae Stay

I tenei wiki i haere tatou (Space 7,8,9) ki Tangatarua Marae, Waiairki Polytechnic. (Raapa 22 Poutu-te-rangi, ki Ramere 23 Poututerangi). Kei te ako tatou i nga tikanga i te marae me etahi atu mahi pai. 1. Powhiri, karanga, whaikorero, waiata, hariru (hongi) 2. Nga mahi a rehia - waiata a ringa, tititorea, poi, haka 3. I nga mahi whakata, me nga mahi mamahi. 4. Whakawhanaungatanga

Kei te tu tatou i mua i te marae mo te powhiri.

Ka karanga te Whaea, ka karanga atu a Whaea Trina. He ataahua te karanga a Whaea Trina.

A muri nga whaikorero me nga mihi o nga tane, ka hariru tatou, ka hongi tatou. Ka noho tatou i roto i te wharenui. He ataahua nga whakairo i roto i te wharenui, Ko Ihenga te ingoa o te wharenui na te mea kei te maumahara te tangata whenua i a Ihenga, na te mea he Rangatira ia no Te Arawa.

Tokorua nga tama kei te mahi etahi o nga mahi pai, ko tenei te mahi tititorea i te taha a Whaea Allanah me Miss K.

After morning tea we like to read

Quiet reading on PhotoPeach

My Friend Oriwia

Writing: We have been learning how to write an interesting description of someone we know. Isla chose to write about her class friend Oriwia.

I hope you enjoy Isla's short description.

Oriwia

My best friend's name is Oriwia, she is the same height as me and she is the same age.  She is a girl and she makes me laugh and she is kind.  My friend has brown hair and she's got coloured eyes.  My friend Oriwia loves me.
By Isla

Ko Isla kei runga.

Ko Oriwia kei raro.

The Battle of the Mountains

 
Maori myths and legends
THE BATTLE OF THE MOUNTAINS retold by Peter Gossage.

Writing: For writing we were learning how to retell a Maori myth or legend from the beginning to the end, in our own words.

I hope you enjoy Taureikura's retell.

Long long ago Maui pulled up a huge fish called Te Ika a Maui.

In the middle of the island stood up a group of seven mountains.  There was a mighty chief called Tongariro.  His wife was the beautiful mountain Pihanga.  There was another mountain called Taranaki, he hated Tongariro because he loved Pihanga too.  There were two more mountains called Tauhara and Putauaki and they also loved her. 

Taranaki started a fight with Tongariro. Then Putauaki and Tauhara threw lava and rocks. They all had a fight but Tongariro was too strong because he had more rocks and lava. The three mountains lost the battle and they retreated and went away.

Retold by Taureikura.

First Class Photo

Ko wai nga tamariki pai!

Ko enei nga tamariki pai i te ruma 08.

Ko te Ramere 10 Hui Tanguru te ra.

Ko Kawaha Point te ingoa o ta matou kura.

Ko Te Arawa te waka

Ko Ngongotaha te maunga

Ko Tama-te-Kapua te tangata

Ko Rotorua-nui-a-Kahu te moana o te iwi

TIHEI MAURI ORA!

Nga mihi:

Haere Ra Oriwia raua ko Isaiah!

Kia pai to haerenga ki to kura hou.

Kei te ako tatou:Ki te korero Maori

Ka ea mena:

• ka tu au ki te timata i nga karakia
• ka tohatohaina i taku whakapapa
• Ka patai ahau "He aha tenei ra?"
• Ka patai ahau "He aha tenei tae?"

Karakia

Ia ra, ia ata,i te mutunga o te ra, ka karakia tatou.

Ko Tyreece te kaikarakia i roto i tenei whakahua.

Ka tu ia i te ra tuatahi o te kura mo te

tau 2012, (31.1.12).  He rawe tona mahi.

Ka whakarongo tatou ki ana korero pai.