Kararehe

This week we continued with our learning about animals. However, instead of thinking about our big idea in science that we have been investigating, we learnt how to say, read and write the names of the animals we have been learning about. On Monday morning we started the day playing some games to help us learn the animal names in Maori.

Once we were familiar with how to pronounce the names we learnt how to put the animal names into a simple sentence. We learnt Ko te ........ tenei (This is a ...). We then began to create our own animal books in Maori for reading. We continued using our new found Maori vocabulary in statistics by surveying our friends and asking them what their favourite animal was and they had to tell us in Maori. 

We also completed an art task to create a camouflaged animal. We spent time looking at examples on an art blog and then had a go at creating backgrounds and animals that blended into the background. We then wrote descriptions for our camoflaged animals. Mahadyia said 'My peacock has beautiful feathers that have round circles on top like eyes' Spencer wrote 'My elephant is like a fat tree trunk without the bush on top' Jaxsyn said that his animal was as dark as the nights sky.

We finished our animal provocation work this week by learning how to read 'He Kuri' and we took this home to read.