**Congratulations**

Congratulations to our first Sam Smiler students for 2017.  At Celebration Assembly last week we gave out our first badges for the year.  Congratulations to Georgia, Sophie, Tia and Sophia who received their white Sam Smiler badge, and Ella-Pearl, Jed, Arwen, Erin, Tyler and Mitchell who received their blue badge.  These students are consistently showing their People Powers and Learning Powers around school, and are great role models for others in the Junior Learning Community.

Trip to Air Force Museum

Te Māuru-e-taki-nei visited Wigram Air Force Museum on Friday afternoon - here are some photos from our visit.
Special thanks to Kahu's mum, Jacob's mum, Jordan's dad, Sophie's mum, Connor's grandad and Chelsea for helping us on our trip.

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Using Explain Everything in Reading

We have been learning how to use Explain Everything in our Reading programme.
This week Mrs Jones groups in Te Māuru-e-taki-nei created these.

Zara's group read 2 texts about life jackets this week:


Jordan's group were learning about compound words:

Jed's group read 2 texts about fingerprints this week:

Congratulations to these Heroes!

Congratulations to these Junior Learning Community heroes who received a Hero Award at Celebration Assembly today.  Great work!

Using Explain Everything in Reading

In Te Māuru-e-taki-nei we have just begun to use Explain Everything in our Literacy and Numeracy programme. Last week one of Mrs Cutler's groups were asked to choose their favourite part of a text and explain why it was their favourite, and also to discuss any difficult words in the text that they encountered as they were reading.  Here is Mitchell's response to the text:

What's the big idea?

To celebrate Book Week 2017, we had the pleasure of enjoying "What's the big idea?"

Harmonica makes a boy connect to a long Lost uncle. The big idea was memories.

The lion in the meadow is a kiwi classic. It teaches us that sometimes the things that frighten us most, turn out to be quite friendly! 

Fuzzy doodle shows us our imagination can do amazing things. An idea popped out, springing up... it can appear as anything any time. Sometimes when we want one it's hard to grab, but if you wait they start to come... the big idea was creativity.

The road to rattenburg. -Spinnaker overcame lots of obstacles and was very brave. The big idea is courage.

A kahuitipua wanted to overtake a park to have it for himself! It wasn't as big and ferocious as he should have been! The rumours made it grow and grow...

A librarian (or agent of understanding) helped solve the mystery. Stories can get changed when people don't know all the details... they add bits to fill in the gaps! 

Some of our akonga helped show how a simple sentence can completely change.

We saw, first hand, how stories can get muddled up and get out of hand! When we leave things and pretend they don't exist, things just get worse! The Kahuitipua represented imaginations. Fear made him grow bigger.

Winter Coughs & Colds

We are learning about how to sneeze and cough correctly in the Winter so that everybody does not get our germs.  We made these self portraits of us using a tissue to catch a sneeze or a cough.