The Tree Hut Treaty

At the beginning of the term our class read and unpacked this book about a group of children that created a Treaty for their hut to keep the peace. This led to deep discussions about Te Tiriti O Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) and the creation of our own class Treaty. Below are some of our beautiful Tree Hut creations.

Our Waharoa

 

Today we learnt about the special meanings behind the carvings and began our sketching. We are working towards creating a Waka Taua in our classroom and researching Māori patterns. 

MakerSpace Room 18 & 17

Room 18 are really enjoying our MakerSpace Problem Solving Activities and have come up with some very creative ingenious ideas. We also go for gallery walks to Whaea Robyn's room to talk to the students about what they have created and leave comments for them.

Whaea Arna's class sometimes gets very loud when they should be working quietly.

Can you help by designing and creating a solution to my problem?

Whaea Robyn always has a lot of things to carry to and from her car every day. 

Can you help by designing and creating a solution to my problem?

 

  

 

Diwali with Whaea Monika

We are learning about Diwali - the Indian Festival of Light celebrating the beginning of the Indian New Year.

Welcome back to kura - Wow I can't believe it is already Term 4! How the year has flown by!

This term Room18 will be looking at MakerSpace Activities. Where we will gather and share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build our solutions to specific problems. MakerSpace provides tools and space in a community environment to design, create and build items.

This week we looked at the process and created a Crazy8 where we could imagine a problem to our first solution. We came up with some very creative solutions.

Problem 1: Room 18 has lots of broken game boxes. Imagine a solution to our problem - it can be as crazy as your imagination can take you!