Lent

This week marks the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent - 40 days of fasting, praying and almsgiving as we prepare for the church's most important celebration - Easter Sunday, when we joyfully remember the resurrection of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour.
On Shrove Tuesday, we made pancakes. Traditionally, this day was when everybody ate up all the "goodies" in their pantries - eggs and cream were high in the list.
On Ash Wednesday, we went to mass and received ashes on our forehead. These were from the palms collected last year after Palm Sunday. The ashes remind us to turn away from sin and turn back to God.
We have made our Lenten promises. You can read these on our individual blogs.

Making Huts

Making memories is a lot of fun. Today, we made huts in class. Everybody organised themselves into groups and decided where they were going to build their hut. We used blankets, sheets, desks, chairs - practically anything we could get our hands on! Pegs clipped sheets together, Bibles anchored the blankets to the tops of desks, chairs guarded entrance ways and the meditation bell acted as a doorbell. 
The students played board games inside their huts, wrote their spelling lists and tried to do their Maths and Reading activities. And then the fights started! 
Read our individual blogs to find out more.

The Explorer by Karherine Rundell

Every afternoon after lunch, Mrs Naden reads to us whilst we drink our milk. She casts it on the T.V.  so we can read along (this will help us with our own reading too). So far, in the novel, 4 children, who don't know each other, survive a plane crash in the Amazon jungle and need to rely on each other to survive. There are no adults, no rules, no shelter and no food. At the moment they are arguing a lot!

Each week, we are given a set of tasks that relate to the book. Some are written tasks, some are research tasks amd some are hands-on tasks that require us to make and build something. Throughout the term, we will be posting some of these tasks on our individual blogs.

Pāoa and Kiwa

For Inquiry, we are learning about Pāoa and Kiwa's voyage from Hawaiiki to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa. 
Today, some educators from the Tairāwhiti Museum came and did sand art with us and we also made single hulled waka. The educators also let us explore Pāoa and Kiwa's journey on Google Earth using i-Pads. 
We will post pictures of our waka  on our individual blogs later in the week. Be sure to check them out and leave us a positive and helpful comment.

Introducing Room 1 2020

Kia ora. We are a class of year 5 & 6 students at St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Gisborne who love being outdoors.

Welcome to 2020

Welcome to 2020.

We look forward to sharing our learning in Room 1 with our school,

our whānau and friends everywhere.