Kia Kaha, Kia Maia, Kia Manawanui
Mairangi and Isla receiving their Kia Prizes
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Matariki
Thursday, June 21, 2012
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.
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.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
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
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
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