We are Powerful!

 Autahi have started to explore this terms learner attribute which is: I am Powerful!

We thought that people who were powerful showed these things:

• Kindness and empathy
• Bravery
• Shared with others
• Helping people
• Looking after things
• Standing up for what is right

Here are some examples of things or people that we thought were powerful

Sharks are powerful

Princesses are powerful

Mums are powerful

We are powerful too!

Oh! Look, a boat! Launching our books - and boats.

Picture books are a great source of inspiration to us. 'Oh! Look, a Boat!' by Andrew J. Ross is our latest favourite. A little red boat floats up the river and past mouse's house. When mouse hops onboard, he finds himself sailing away on a big adventure. The story has so many great connections to our watery inquiry and is great fun to read because it has lots of opportunities to say 'Oh! Look, a Boat!' along with all the creatures that see the red boat bobbing along.

We were inspired! 

Step by step, we wrote our stories, deciding where else our little boats could go and practising our storytelling voices. We each designed a character for the story, to sit in the boat and sail through the book. Finally, we imagined what different characters in our story would say when they saw the red boat, and added some speech bubbles.

This was an opportunity for our Autahi writers to work on a sustained piece of storytelling, adding to it over multiple days, with an audience in mind. 

Here is a taste of our awesome stories. There will be more to see in the upcoming issue of Te Wheke (our school zine) and at our Arts Celebration.

Getting close to 100 days

 

Part of our Maths programme contains a daily check in with the class calendar. The Maths curriculum contains lots of learning about days of the week, names of months and counting forwards to and backwards from 20.

Each day we count forward to the date from the day before and then predict what the next number will be. We use clues based on the order that numbers follow to support us in doing this.

One of the highlights is counting the number of days we have had so far at school. The early days aren't to difficult but as the year goes on we get into some much bigger numbers.

As we reach a ten we group it together to show how many groups of ten and extra ones we have gone past.

Now that we are getting close to 100 days at school it's time for a celebration. Next Thursday the 24th of July will be our 100th day of school for 2025.

To celebrate we will be having a stay and play to connect our whanau with our new Rising 5's whanau and celebrate lots of learning and fun. See the school newsletter for more info.