Te Ara Angitu is a group of Year 5 and 6 students at Ara Tū Whakatā Gilberthorpe School in Hei Hei, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Welcome to our blog where we share our learning throughout 2022.
You can also see sharing from Rimu and Whakamanawa students from previous years.
Timed Prototec - Checking My Basic Facts Knowledge
Today we had a set amount of time to complete a Prototec Basic Facts session. We then all had to stop, take a screenshot and post this to our blogs so we could share how we went.
This week when we were working in our home base class, Whakamanawa created a collaborative piece of writing to share something about our holidays.
We each had a slide and specific learning outcomes and criteria. Throughout the week, we gave each other feedback and feedforward. We then edited our writing and focused on what we could do to improve the quality. Miss Waho then gave some more suggestions and we acted on those.
On Friday, we got into groups and read our writing to our partners. We gave a final piece of feedback and feedforward and discussed what it means to be able to work in a group for different situations.
We worked on our digital fluency skills and shared a screenshot of our individual work on our blogs.
Here is the slide we created:
Next time, we will duplicate our slides so we can show our before feedforward and the finished version.
To celebrate Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori, for Fun Friday, Miss Cabral and Miss Waho did a Māori Art and Fried Bread activity. Penny had to help Miss Waho out to make the fried bread throughout the day because she's got the skills.
Here are a few photos from the afternoon:
Have you tried fried bread before? If you haven't, you should.
This term our focus for Goal Setting is Steps Web. In July, I set a goal for the rest of the term. Today, I am checking in to see how I am progressing.
This is my July goal:
Today, in September/ Mahuru I have done 852 minutes. This means I have done @#$ minutes so I am on track to reach my goal. I will continue to do what I have been doing.
or
I haven't really done much so this means I need to do more Steps in my own time.
or
I have already reached my goal for this term so now, I can set an even higher goal which is to be on level $^(*) by the end of the term.
This year to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, our whole school took part in the Māori Language Moment. This was when we all stopped what we were doing and did something that involved any of the following: ako-learn, whakarongo-listen, kōrero-speak, tākaro-play, pānui-read, waiata-sing.
In Te Ara Takitini, we were in our Numeracy classes so our MLM was done with Numeracy teachers for 15 minutes. In Miss Waho's class, we ended up enjoying it so much that we were able to do something for all areas of focus.
We started by listening and watching the lyric version of Six60's song Pepeha. We talked about what the different kupu mean and made connections with our own pepeha learning.
We then went over how we ask someone how they are and selected three different responses that we could give. We connected with three different people and had a kōrero to see how we were feeling.
Kei te hia kau ahau.
Once we were all warmed up, it was time for us to read. We got out a selection of pukapuka and sat in an oval to have a browse and a read. We have such a good selection so it was great to see what words we recognised and read some texts in Te Reo Māori.
When we were tidying up our books, we learned how to say pass the book and to reply with here is the book. Homai te pukapuka. Anei te pukapuka.
When it was time to tākaro, we had a go at a warm-up from Māori Movement. This was new for us but we loved this and are looking forward to trying out more of these sessions. We can see and feel how good this is for our taha tinana.
For our waiata time, we looked through our waiata anthems slide and akonga chose to sing Aotearoa by Stan Walker, Troy Kingi, Maisey Rika and Ria Hall. This waiata is one of our bell songs at the moment and one of our favourites.
Our whole school participated in the Māori Language Moment this year and have shared our moments in a slide. Check out what else happened around the school:
Today's activities really made us realise that we need more of these moments. It has given us more motivation to be creating opportunities for us all to refresh, learn and grow.
One of the activities that Miss Cabral got Whakamanawa students to do, was about our favourite dogs. We then got to do a quiz that would show our dog matches. This is my future dog friend:
I thought this activity was really interesting. It shows all of the different things you need to consider before taking on the responsibility of owning a dog.
In 2020 when we were in lockdown, we created virtual Fish! Tickets to replace the paper tickets we use to acknowledge students for showing and growing our school values. This year, we decided to continue doing these because we have so many students who show great engagement as we learn and work from home.
For Whakamanawa, we also have Miss Cabral who has created a personalised ticket for sharing.
Here is our 2021 version:
If you haven't heard of the Fish! Philosophy, check it out on YouTube.
