Tahuna School
Learning for Life
Learning for Life
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My name is Clare Gow and I am excited to be the teacher this year in Adventure Room. We are made up of 21 Year 3 and 4 students.
Term Three has certainly been an action packed term for Adventure Room! The children have summarised some of our main focuses below…
During Term 3 as part of the World topic we are looking at reducing plastic which is a big problem in the world. We collected our rubbish from our lunch boxes for a whole week. We counted it and there was 132 pieces of plastic in one week. That means our class would create about 5280 pieces in the school year. We are now going to work out how to reduce this number.
Sammi-Jae, Oaklyn and Evaya 
This term we have been learning about money. We learnt how to count money. Then Cash Coach Callum from ASB Bank came in and taught us about debit and credit cards. When you use a card the money magically moves from your bank account to the shops bank account. Alex and Hunter
One sentence descriptions of Term Two in Adventure Room
We rush to start the day with our multiplication and division practise, it sometimes feels impossible to move on to the next stage - Hunter Teams huffing and puffing at the Rugby/Netball fun day - Alex During Sign Language Week a visitor called Fiona was difficult to understand, but luckily she was able to communicate with her hands. One by one our feet were pumping through the squishy sheep poo at Cross Country - Katie By combining two detailed animals together we created an undiscovered hybrid creature - Emma Designing our creative dioramas, with the ideas in our minds hatching to be habitats for our hybrid animals - Coopah We have choices for Literacy for the time which we complete things, as long as reading, spelling, phonics and writing are achieved by Friday - Evaya Riddle of the day is confusing and twisting our minds - Oaklyn Shiny golden tickets are awarded to children for making good choices - Shanae Mrs Latto singing and telling stories about the Bible - Bowen As our maths progresses, the Hummingbirds B take off and transform into the Butterflies A! Zoe With lots of tears we farewell 3 of our friends, moving onto new adventures of their own - Sammi-Jae 1, 2, 3 the rakau pounds to the beat- Allison String games and Tapu Ae with Mr Pollard during whanau groups - John Michael Crinkled cellophane-wrapped kites, floating high in the light breezes of the sky - Lachlan Weaving harakeke, over and behind, creating flax flowers with Miss Gow - Kieran Learning star constellations in the dark star dome with Mrs Constantine - Loretta Threading the needle, up, down, up, down to create our Tukutuku panels - Jade We began the year with a major focus of 'Managing Self'. Being a self-manager is associated with self-motivation, a "can-do" attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners.
We started the year with the quote “Let the Adventure begin”. We discussed what an ‘Adventure’ is and how everyday is actually an adventure. We made a class mural showing people jumping over rivers and falling down the learning pit - having to overcome challenges like we do in everyday life. We learnt how we can help each other to overcome challenges and get out of the learning pit.
In Term 1 our topic was Belonging. We started the term by doing self portraits which were inspired by Romero Britto a Brazilian pop artist. We did Pepeha’s with Mrs Hutchings which showed who we are and where we come from. We had lots of talk about kindness and about how people are different. Out of respect for the people in Christchurch we made paper dolls representing people from all around the world and how we all belong. |
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