Tui class @ Pompallier Catholic School

 What a FUN activity!! Miss Slattery read 'The very noisy bear' by Nick Bland to us and we LOVED to story!! We then found out that we were going to make musical instruments from recycled materials that makes a noise like a bear.  Boy we had so much fun! We worked with a partner which was great. We first had to gather the materials we were going to use then we started sketching our designs and thinking about how we were going to put it all together. Construction of the instrument was by far the best part and then we got to share them with our family of learners and see what others had created.  We had so many awesome instruments and we are created something different and they all made different sounds.  We worked on our super skills (4C's) and reflected on how we went and what skills we used to complete our instruments.

 Now that we are in level 2 we are trying to social distance and keep our bubbles as small as possible. This means that we haven't been able to gather as a whole schooln so instead we have been having assemblies via Google Hangouts in our classrooms. Each class connects to the Hangout and then we are able to connect with our school and our whanau are able to connect to it too which is really awesome!  This means we have been able to celebrate all the amazing things happening around our school and in the classrooms. During assemblies teachers always give out value awards, and we have still been able to receive these which is so cool, it makes things a little bit more normal.

 Sharing knowledge has been something we have been incorporating heavily into our classroom. With it being Matariki we chose some experts in the classroom to share their knowledge about Matariki with us. Kaycee is so passionate about her Maori culture and has been leading our Matariki lessons as she we view her as an expert on the topic. Kaycee read 'Seven Kites of Matariki' to use and we discussed what the seven kites represent and mean. We have loved being able to share knowledge with one another and lead lessons in the classroom. We appeciate all the knowledge we as students hold and we value that we are all experts in different areas.