Pohutukawa @ Waitara Central School

Cybersmart- Nanny Mihi and the Rianbow This week in Pohutukawa we read Nanny Mihi and the Rainbow, by Melanie Drewery. We were learning about making connections. We thought about times when we had walked along the beach collecting things, like the tamariki in the story. We also shared about when we had heard some of the te reo kupu from the story, and used our connections to understand the meaning of these words. We learnt a bit about the M ā ori Atua (gods) in this story, and we made a connection with the way the gods hung the rainbow in the sky to share the tamariki’s mahi. This is just like when we share our mahi on a blog post, because then everyone can see and enjoy our great work. After we finished the story, we made our own rainbow collage, using explore, search for different textures and crop tool. The best bit about making our rainbows was using different textures, colours and shapes. We hope you like them!

Welcome back to school. Term 4 is going to be a busy and fun Term. We already start the Term by learning how to create a rainbow collage on Google draw. In Maths we are learning about direction and location. Students wrote they're goals for the term and we shared what we did in the holidays. The students of Pohutukawa are very excited to be back at school.