Celebrating Maori Language Week 2012

Room 12 are celebrating Maori Language week in a number of ways this year.  Read on to find out what all the fuss is about...

Monday our Resource Teacher of Maori Whaea Rangimaria will be in to teach us Tumutumu - this is about using found instruments.  What connection does this have to Maori Language Week you say?

Check this site out:  http://www.richardnunns.net.nz/tumutumu-a-found-percussion-instrument/

We are also skyping a number of schools across the country sharing our favourite waiata, haka, mihi, kapa haka practice and many more things that signify Te Reo Maori.

Be apart of the celebration Learn it, Live it, Love it!

We will be using the What, So What, Now What model to reflect on our Maori Language week experinces.

Bilingual Health Resources for Our School

FOREARMED: Heart Foundation Southland health promtions co-ordinator Stella O'Connor and New River Primary pupils (from left) Blade Walker, 9, Mia Henry, 10, and Brody Miller, 11, with the new bilingual health FOREARMED: Heart Foundation Southland health promotions co-ordinator Stella O'Connor and New River Primary pupils (from left) Blade Walker, 9, Mia Henry, 10, and Brody Miller, 11, with the new bilingual health resources they received. 

 Low-decile Southland primary schools will have a new bilingual health resource in time for Maori Language Week. Heart Foundation Southland health promotions co-ordinator Stella O'Connor presented the Hauora Hautipua books to New River Primary yesterday. Twenty low-decile primary schools in Southland will receive the books over the next week. Ms O'Connor said she believed the books were needed in the south. She applied for a grant through the Southern District Health Board's Healthy Eating Healthy Action (HEHA) and received funding for 20 sets of books to be given to low-decile Southland schools. The books, which cover the four seasons, follow superheroes Maui and Hina and look at traditional Maori concepts, incorporating health and nutrition messages, she said. The messages promoted healthier lifestyles, diet and exercise to whanau and the wider community, and a teachers' guide had suggestions on further teaching on the topic with links to the curriculum, Ms O'Connor said. "Education can play a key role in tackling the spiralling rates of obesity and diabetes in New Zealand, and sadly the rates are even higher among Maori and Pacific communities." The books, which were released by the Heart Foundation to celebrate Maori Language Week, can be bought from the foundation. Adapted from an original resource developed by Te Hotu Manawa Māori and Robyn Kahukiwa, the books also aim to improve Maori literacy. The foundation was developing a storyboard format for early childhood centres, Ms O'Connor said. New River principal Elaine McCambridge said it was always wonderful to get new resources for the school, especially those related to health promotion. "We are a health-promoting school and it all ties in with that at New River," she said. It was important to have resources such as the Hauora Hautipua books, which were in a format children could understand and relate to, she said. Maori Language Week, Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2012, runs from Monday to Sunday next week.

A Wow Fact from Kiwi Can

 
Did you know that the toilet paper used in one day in America, could go around the world nine times!!!!!!!!

Wow Fact Published by Nesion

WERE JUST JOKING AROUND

If a rooster laid an egg on a triangle house, witch way would it roll?

By Gabrielle

What did the snow man say to the other snow man?

By Michael

Knock Knock
WHO'S THERE
senior
SENIOR    WHO
senior so nosey I'm not going to tell you

Knock Knock
Who's there
repeat
repeat who
ok who who who who who who who who

by Gabrielle

Rm 12 Super Star

Student for the Month of June - Lane

Term 2 Highlights

The end of term came around very quickly and there were many highlights we did not manage to share with our followers throughout the term.  

Please check out our PhotoPeach snapshot of the past terms highlights...

Term 2 Highlights 2012 on PhotoPeach

Transit of Venus

What is a Transit of Venus? 

When Venus passes directly between earth and the sun, we see the distant planet as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the sun. Historically, this rare alignment is how we measured the size of our solar system. The view is like a front row seat to the transit method, by which we find planets around distant stars. 


The last transit of Venus occurred June 5-6-2012. The next pair of Sun-Venus-Earth alignments will be December 2117 and 2125. Look for a transit of Mercury in 2016. 


People across the globe witnessed and celebrated science in action. Here at New River Primary Mr Esler brought along his huge scientific telescope and each classroom got the opportunity to see venus passing across the face of the sun.  

It was very important not to look through the telescope as it is dangerous to the naked eye.  You will see in the photo below that Mr Esler had a mirror to reflect the view from the telescope so we could all view this event safely.

SKYPING

On Thursday 28th of June 2012 room12 skyped Miss Irvines class in Christchurch.It was fun. What we had to do was tell her class what our highlights were. My highlights were! 7x tables: my goals were to be 9x tables 1 min or 2 min but it doesn't matter. I feel glade because I will learn how to do my 9x tables. My other highlight is... Netball: It is fun because it is my favorite sport. Also when I first started I was Goal keep. I love been goal keep because you don't have to run around the court. Posted by Theissen:)

Where is Mrs Rolton @ 9.14am

Morena Rm12...I have arrived at my conference venue to start my training in mathematics.

I have attached a few photos to help you on your challenge to where in the country am I?

Staying in Christchurch a new experience...

Shortly after 6pm I boarded my flight bound for the Garden City - Christchurch. I was on my way to an ALIM seminar that will be held overv2 days. It was a great flight as I was able to reminisce over old times with my friend whom I will call Miss Hayes. Laughter amidst the jokes was a sure way to make the time fly. As fast as a bullet we landed in Christchurch around 8pm. We walked down a long skinny tunnel like a walk way...hearing the odd bing bong over the loud speaker. Now it was time to meet our corporate taxi driver, collect our bags and head to our hotel - Chateau on the Park. We were greeted by friendly staff to check in before receiving our keys for the room that will be mine for 2 nights. As we walked towards the lift, right before us were steel poles supporting the ceiling to the second floor. Hardboard reinforced windows where there once was glass and uneven ground with safety cones to warn us not to trip. What will the night ahead bring as I sleep in this building damaged by a monster of an earthquake in the recent past?