My Mihi maker Pepeha

This is a link to my pepeha made in Mihimaker on Gamefroot. I would love to know how to embed it into the blog so it works from the image. Any feedback welcome.

Click here and press right arrow when it loads.  

Different Levels of Questioning

For our Reading Inquiry we are learning to develop the way ask questions. We are using Google Jamboard to post questions as a group. We then classify them into Level 1, 2 or 3 questions. Sometimes we think of easy questions which are easy to answer and don't require us to think deeply. If we want to challenge each other we have to try and ask questions that get each other to think deeply and use what they already know.

Erosion of drains next to our school.

We have been looking at the erosion of the drain walls next to our school. We noticed that the drain right next to the school had little erosion yet lots of agapanthuses plants. The drain over the road looked a lot worse and even some of the fence posts were just hanging. Not much vegetation was on that side apart from Leaderbrand lettuces a long way inside the fence. Could this be the problem??

Science Fair Project Ideas

Hi All,

We hope Term 3 has started well for you all at Kaingaroa. At Makauri we have a few events coming up which we are excited about. One of them is the Tairawhiti Science Fair. It's about creating things to solve problems in our community and sharing them with each other. Some of the problems we have been trying to solve at our school and in our community are the rat problem, recycling rubbish, and stopping the use of plastic. We also have a wasp problem in the summer.  We would like some ideas and solutions for some of the problems that you may have at your school that we might be able to investigate ourselves. If you have any ideas that might inspire us, please let us know. 

Kereru Hub Teaching of Fractions

Kereru Hub have been consolidating their learning of fractions by teaching fellow students fraction concepts. This involved designing a 25 minute lesson in groups of two that they would teach to another group of learners (2 to 3). They received feedback from the learners after each lesson so they could go back and improve parts of their teaching.

Below are some photos and how they thought it impacted on their practice.

Cultural Diversity at Makauri

In the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack, we decided in Kereru Hub to investigate what it meant to be a New Zealand in 2019 from a cultural perspective.

We made projects from different cultures and last Friday we brought in a food from that culture to share. Here's a photo. We would love some comments or would love to know what Kaingaroa school have been up to.