Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

A huge thank you to everyone that voted for our America's Cup video!!!! While we didn't win a major prize, we were lucky enough to win a consolation prize... A new Sphero Robot! Thank you so much to Genesis Energy for sponsoring this awesome competition.

We are going to have a whole lot of fun learning with this little ball of energy!

Quiet on set!!!

For the past month, Te Maunga has been an absolute madhouse! We have been writing scripts, making props, finding sets and playing dress ups. We made movies!!!

We had some hiccups along the way but we managed to come up with some outstanding stories and beautiful cinematography.

You can check out all of the movies on our class Youtube site here

Hunting For Treasure

On August 28th, Paihia School ran a fundraiser for ex-pupil Sam Godsiff-Johnson. Sam was raising money for the charity I Am Hope. Our school ran a treasure hunt to support the cause!

The junior students got out just before morning tea and hunted around for some pictures of gumboots that would land them an exciting prize!

The senior students were called out just before lunch for their turn. Mrs. Lindsay hid tiny pictures of gumboots and the students set off! They peered high and low and some were able to get a hold of their little pictures.

Once all of the gumboots were found, Mrs. Lindsay called each winner up one by one to receive their mystery prizes. Some students won ice-cream, some won bouncy balls, others won headphones. All had a great time and contributed to an awesome cause!

VOTE FOR US!!!!!!

We have entered a competition to have the America's Cup Trophy brought into school and to win $3000 of learning equipment. This is the video we made.

All we need is for people to vote for us! You can vote once a day so please support us!

Maths Week

Last week we celebrated Maths Week. We had a series of fun problem solving tasks to do in groups and we had prizes for groups that were able to solve the puzzles and for working collaboratively.

On Friday Mrs. Cameron had a car full of balloons and everyone had an opportunity to see it and to guess how many balloons were in the car. After all of the guesses were tallied up, only one student had guessed the exact number of balloons... It was Tamati from here in Te Maunga. Tamati got a hamper full of goodies he can use at school.

Online Safety is Paramount

We have been learning about the Kawa of Care and some ways to keep ourselves safe when we go online.

We read a book about online safety. It taught us that it is very important to keep personal information off the web. We also learnt that being friends online with strangers is something that no one should ever do. Just ask Chicken Clicking!

Super Sonic Soundscapes

We have been learning all about different musical instruments from around the world. We read about violins being made the same way for the last 400 years, the erhu, a Chinese instrument, and the koauau, a Maori flute.

We also learnt about sound effects used in movies. We saw that coconut shells were used to make the sound of horses galloping. We came up with some awesome ideas to make some sounds to do with all sorts of themes. Some groups did volcanic eruptions, some did storms and a few did crazy ideas like fighting dragons and zombies attacking!

Term 3 Begins

We have finally started Term 3 after a well deserved 2 week break. Everyone is feeling refreshed and ready to get back into some learning.

This term we are starting off by learning about music and musical instruments. We have looked at soundscapes and how sound effects are made in movies and will be making some ourselves!

We have been writing recounts about the exciting things we have done in the holidays. It was very cool to see what everyone has been doing in their break.

Extinction of the Dinosaurs

We have been learning all about dinosaurs. We learnt that they were huge and that they roamed the earth more than 65 million years ago.

One thing we read about was the extinction of the dinosaurs. There are many theories about how they all died out. The ideas that we thought made the most sense were the asteroid hitting the earth and volcanoes causing havoc.

We recreated these volcanic eruptions in class with our "Dino-ramas" to see how the dinosaurs may have lived out their last moments.

Almost Normal

We have been back at school for 3 weeks now and we are getting back into an almost normal routine. We have been continuing with our normally scheduled work and it has been great to see how well everyone has adapted to the changes.

We have been learning about the viruses and other microbes. The students have created some awesome digital posters about what they have learnt so have a look at the students' work on their blogs. The links to the blog are on the left side of your screen as you read this.

Today (Friday June 5th) we will be having another online assembly at 2pm to celebrate the students' efforts. It would be awesome to have as many people as possible to witness how awesome our students have been this week. The link to the assembly is on our class site.

Te Maunga Raffle

On Friday May 22nd the winners of Te Maunga's camp fundraising raffle were announced. The winners were as follows:

Family stay for 5 on The Rock - Kevin Reeves

Deluxe room for 2 at Scenic - Braeden Smith

Lego hamper - Kay

Easter hamper - Braeden Smith

Grocery hamper - Dianne Hawk

$30 grocery voucher - Karceya Takimoana

$20 Greens voucher - Rob Field

Congratulations to all the winners and a HUMONGOUS thank you to all of the awesome people that supported us by donating prizes or buying tickets!!!

Guess who's back...

We are finally back up and running! School opened today and we had a large percentage of students in class and ready to learn! It's been a long time but all the students seemed to get back into the swing of things very nicely. 

We have a Term 2 newsletter for you to peruse at your leisure attached below.

Term 2 Newsletter

Embedding a Slide Presentation

I have created a Slideshow and a video to show people how to embed slides on to their blog