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Whare Tapa Wha

On Friday we wrapped up our Whare Tapa Wha - Total Well-Being unit. We have looked at many things that influence our health, how we can be healthy, including physically and emotionally. We also learnt about and mapped the many places we have in our community that support our total well being. We looked at the different kinds of Taha Tinana (physical well-being) and how they are different but all play a part in us being fit and healthy.

Oh what fun!

Well, what an afternoon Thursday was! Fun swimming sports was exactly that... FUN! We all competed in some interesting and extremely funny races!! We competed in our houses and had a great time dressing up in our colours and chanting our team chants!! 

Check out the many laughs we had!

Senior Swimming Sports

What an awesome afternoon we had at the Makino Pool for our Senior swimming sports. The weather was kind and we all competed hard! We were able to show off all the awesome skills we have learnt. We all did our very best and many of us won races which we are all very proud of. Everyone did a great job and really enjoyed the afternoon!

Buddy Class teaching and learning

On Friday, it was very awesome for room 4 big buddies to teach room 7 little buddies how to use mathletics on the I-Pads. Room 7 children have never used mathletics so it was extremely rewarding for the big buddies to show them how to log into their account and guide them through answering and completing their tasks. Room 4 love using mathletics and we are certain that we have passed on the passion!

Fun day friday

Today we enjoyed some fun day Friday swimming activities!! We competed in a mini house competition. We had to get as many of our team on top of the tire as possible. It was certainly harder than it looks and than what we thought! We had an awesome time and had many laughs and many big crashes!!

We are AAA Room 4 students

We have been unpacking what we think Attitude, Adventure and Achievement mean to us and what they look like in our school setting. We brainstormed in groups, shared as a class and then took photos using the I-pads. each group then created a pic collage to show what each of the words look like. We have displayed these in our classroom for us to refer to and remind us how to be a AAA student.

Team building, Independence and Fun = Room 4 CAMP

What a wonderful three days room 4 had at camp. We saw all seasons in the weather and had an awesome time. The rain didn't stop us though and we made our way into the tents for the second night. It was exciting sleeping in the tents and experiencing true camping. We did many different activities that taught us a lot of great things about working as part of a team. Some of the competitive  activities we completed were such a laugh. Others really tested us as we developed skills like giving and taking ideas, doing our bit, getting on, and conflict resolution. On night two we showed off our amazing singing and dancing skills in the pool! It was so much fun and Miss Fleet thought we were AWESOME!!

All in all we had a great 3 day camp at school, learnt some great skills and had a whole lot of fun with much laughter!

Healthy person sharing

As an intro activity to our Whare Tapa Wha unit we all drew what we think a healthy person looks like. We then shared our ideas about what we think influences a person's health!! Miss Fleet was impressed with our prior knowledge! We are looking forward to building on what we already know and learning about being healthy using Whare Tapa Wha (Maori health model) as a context.

Buddy class swimming

Our first buddy class was about sharing some of our swimming learning and building confidence in the water. It was really cool seeing what our little buddies could do in the water and it was really fun piggy backing them in little races. We think our buddy classes are going to have a great year full of sharing role modeling and having loads of fun!