Riverdale Teacher Video 2

Here is the second video from the Riverdale Teachers.

This time featuring Miss Fairbairn, Mr Bennett, Mrs Chaves, Mr Bron, Miss Day and Karina.

Riverdale Teacher Video 1

Here is the first video from the teachers. 

Featuring Mrs Lunn, Mrs Mercer, Sue, Ms Udy, Mrs Best, Mrs Kenyon and Mr Pike enjoy! 😁

Video Message From Us To You!

Kia ora everyone,

We will be posting a video every Tuesday and Friday over the coming weeks to show you what we are up to in our homes.

Enjoy the first video from Mrs Peck!

Sea Animal Explore!

We had so much fun this week learning about all the different animals that live in our oceans! We learned about how different animals can breathe underwater (and why we can't), and we also learned lots about how we can help to keep the sea animals home safe.

As well as understanding our global responsibilities, we also practised helping and supporting our friends. We learned that helping isn't always about doing something FOR someone, but about teaching them how to do it for themselves. 

Check out some photos of us hard at work!

 Kupa loved sorting the shark cards into different groups

 Mackenzie coloured and cut out carefully to create her very own fish puppet, she even added gills! 

 Zach T, Ryan and Courtney were working together using their Maths knowledge to read the numbers on the fish

 Luca W, Aurora, Maia and Ava were working hard to make their own sea animal puppets

 Ruby, Logan P and Mia were carefully counting and graphing the number of sea animals in the pictures!

 Nina, Ruby and Semi made some fantastic posters reminding people not to litter so we can protect our oceans and our sea animals!

 Courtney and Mackenzie worked together to make a beach for their sea animals to live on

 Charlie and Tane were very proud of their shark puppets - they even added their own gills!

 Charlie thought of a created a rubbish filter to get the rubbish out of our oceans. He carefully thought through each step and gave a thorough explanation about how it works!

 Luca carefully coloured and labelled the different parts of her sea turtle

 Semi and Elijah built an aquarium to protect all the injured sea animals

Tane, Charlie and Jack worked together to support each others ideas and came up with a really cool puppet show. They used their sea animals to explain why people need to look after the oceans! 

Tuakana Teina with Pae Ake!

On Thursdays we take part in a Tuakana Teina experience with the year 3 and 4 children in Pae Ake. 

This is a great opportunity for us to get to know some of the other friendly faces around the school and build connections to help us learn. It allows us to build confidence and make more friends that we can recognise in the playground. 

Each week we have a new activity to complete together! This week we practised being Aronui and caring for our new friends. 

 Toby worked together with Cooper from Pae Ake to build with the blocks

 Ruby from Pae Ake was being an Aronui by sharing her gel pens with Mia

 Coltyn from Pae Ake taught Tane, Khalid, Zach T and Jayjay how to use the racing track 

 Koni-Leigh and Ella loved colouring with the big girls! 

Charlie and Aurora worked with Conrad and Beau to colour their pictures. Conrad and Beau even shared their coloured pencils with us! 

Music Explore

It got loud this week in Explore when Piako Tahi became a band!

We had so much fun playing on a range of instruments such as ukuleles, guitars, xylophones and even some percussion instruments! We worked hard on practicing and learning how to play songs by trying to put our fingers in the right place for chords or to hit the right notes.
Check us out!

Working hard to learn chords on the ukulele

Semi and Ethan working on their band

Nina loved singing row, row, row your boat

Logan, Toby, Jack and Khalid loved playing and singing together

Luca teaching Courtney Mary had a little lamb

Elijah and Charlie decided to put their instruments together

Ayla made herself a microphone!

Ava and Kupa drumming together

Luca trying to learn twinkle twinkle little star

The Piako Tahi band rocking out!

Space Explore

In a galaxy far, far away there was an amazing class who decided to learn about space!

We got to learn lots about space such as the moon phases, the planets and what kind of vehicles they use in space!

We worked this week on completing our activities to a high standard, check out some of our awesome work!

Aurora and Ella working together to build their rocket

       

Nina drew for 3 days like an astronaut to create her picture

Shelby was very happy about finishing the Earth orbit activity

Maia and Koni-Leigh trying to stick their rockets together to make it bigger

Luca designing his own planet which has arms and a face!

Miwa was showing us what phase the moon was the night before

Charlie made his solar system and checked to make sure it had 8 planets!

Mia and Courtney decided to try and use shapes to draw their rockets

Teamwork made it much easier to build a rocket

Ava's spaceship could change from a car to a rocket

Jayjay added a helicopter that could come and pick his vehicle up off the planet

Luca and Tane were trying very hard to finish their solar systems to a high standard

Aurora and Ella changed their spaceship to a space house complete with their very own space dog, Nina!

Toby was very proud of his rocketship and astronaut he had made out of Lego