This week was Chinese Language Week. We loved learning facts about the language and the culture.

Today we listened to the story of the dragon. We made our own dragons to share the story with our families.

WOW!!! What a week it has been. We not only showed how Resilient we were with all the activites, we also Collaborated with others, we were Responsible for ourselves, Respectful of others, Confident participating in various fun activites, and used our Creativity during our STEM challenge of buding a strongest bridge.

We have been learning about Geometry. The children have been exploring shapes. We are learning all the attributes that make each shape in our environment special and unique.

In Room 1 we have been using our creativity to construct a castle using the spare boxes from class. We showed great collaboration skills, working together and sharing our ideas on what we could do. We had great fun!

This morning we were very lucky to have some special insects to look at and discuss in class. There were tarantulas, beetles, scorpions, and all sorts of other insects. We had some great discussions about how many legs each insects had and what the various bodies looked like, some were furry, spiky, and were many different colours.

Room 3 has been having fun learning about different shapes and their attributes. We created some “scary” monsters using different shapes. 

We talked about their attributes and then sorted them collaboratively.

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We had fun Learning about Tonga . We did some tapa Art too!!!

Last week we created our own Tapa Art for Tongan Language Week. We have been learning our shapes in Math so first we identified which shapes we could see in a Tapa cloth. Then we used black and brown paint, potatoes with patterns and cardboard to create our own Tapa.

As part of the Nationwide Tongan language week celebration, we were lucky to have a group of Tongan Mamatuas,(Elders) showcasing some Tongan Arts and Craft. 

It was amazing to see the fabulous things made from flax.