Tuesday 24 March 2020

Kauri Team Home Learning

Kia Ora students and whānau,
Your Kauri team teachers have created a home learning site. Here is the link:
https://sites.google.com/owairaka.school.nz/2020-home-learning/home
On this site there are a selection of learning activities that you can work on.
We suggest you do your learning for 1 - 2 hours each day, Monday to Friday. 

An example of a daily timetable:
Online learning Apps - MUST DOS: 40 minutes
Writing - 30 mins (Remember good writers revisit their writing over many days)
Explorers of NZ and/or Ancient Egypt - 30 minutes
Rich Challenges - 20 minutes, these are long term projects to be done over several days. 
Remember quality over quantity. 
Blog Ponders - answer the blog ponders on the blog with quality comments. There will be
ponders added every Mon, Weds and Friday.

Once you have finished:
  • Proofread your work
  • Show it to someone at home to check
  • Publish to your blog.
We are looking forward to seeing all your great work!

If you have any problems getting onto the online learning apps, please email your teacher. 

Remember to be kind and safe.

Your Kauri Team Teachers

NOTE: School holidays start Monday 30th March until Tuesday 14th April. Term 2 starts
Wednesday 15th April.

Thursday 19 March 2020

Awesome places around us

We are taking part in the Writing Kit NZ activity where we are paired up with another school in NZ (Paremata School in Wellington) and we create a sistena poem that includes awesome places to visit and directions on how to reach them.
Check out the cool places Room 6 came up with. Can you think of anymore?

Made with Padlet

Friday 13 March 2020

Garden To Table Week 5

Another fantastic session of Garden to Table. Tasty Indian food theme this week. Thanks to Sarah and all the G2T helpers who make it possible!

Caught Being Good Certificate Week 5 Term 1

Congratulations to our awesome role models who won our Caught Being Good Certificates this week - Aadil and Gina. Kapai!!

Puzzle ponder w5



Wednesday 11 March 2020

Explore book ponder w5

Extra for experts - use more than 1 of the words in a sentence or paragraph (make sure it makes sense)

Wednesday 4 March 2020

Garden to Table - the sushi edition

Another fantastic experience at Garden to Table today. Weather was not playing nice so after some initial garden time we made our way indoors to work on our 'ideal school garden' - check out the students blogs to see their amazing creations.
The kitchen group created a delicious meal of sushi, sesame beans and fruit pancakes. Success!








Explorer Ponder 3


Tuesday 3 March 2020

Ocean Explorer Visit

We were lucky enough to have a visit from the lovely Riley from Ocean Explorers today. She gave us a very informative and interesting talk about looking after our Hauraki Gulf.

Comment below with something interesting you learnt today.


 The Bryde Whale can measure up to 15metres!! Check out Tamati and Bitner measuring it out with rope - it's as long as our hall!!

Blog Blast - 'Get to know you' Week 4