Tahuna Torea Wetlands

Our next Inquiry  is about caring for the environment. We are researching wetland areas around Auckland. These photos were taken at Tahuna Torea last week. The whole school is walking to this wetland area on Monday 26th November to find information about the birds, reptiles, insects and fish that make the wetlands their home. This video is to ignite our curiosity and start us asking questions. If you know any information that might help us, we'd really appreciate it if you would share it with us.

Powhiri

Kia Ora, In term 3 Room 10 studied Maori culture. We learned about protocol on the marae. We created a wharenui in our classroom and we are sharing our knowledge by making this movie. Enjoy and learn. Ka kite.



Powhiri Glenbrae from KPE TV on Vimeo.


Yesterday Mr Munick came to school to film us doing our powhiri with room 7. First Kyana, Sommer and I had to do the Karanga to call room 7 in to our class room. When room 7 came right into our classroom the boys started to chant the haka called "Toia Mai." We had to chant the haka twice. Then Brandon had to do his mihi in Maori. We had to sing a waiata. We learned a lot about the protocols used on the marae.

Lennyx - Room 10

Hi my name is Lennyx and I am 10 years old. I just moved to Glenbrae from Riverina school in Pakuranga.


Interests:

• Video Games - I have a Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 which I play on all the time.
• Animals - I have two puppies and one adult dog their names are Yogi, Boo-boo and Sasha.
• Sports - I like Rugby and Boxing.
• Watching Movies - I loving watching movies especially action and comedies like 'The Advengers' and 'Hear No Evil, See No Evil'.

When I grow up I want to be Video Game Designer and Tester or own my own Video Game Company.

Fun Waves

Fun waves.
The waves are coming towards the Children.
The kid’s have  toy’s  floating boat. The kids are having fun. It is at the beach. They were playing happily. Waves are fun to play in with kid’s. The children are liking the waves and waves are liking the children. The children like the big waves because they wanna bentend to surf. The caves are crushing on the sand. The sand was being taken of the beach. There are 3 girls and 1 boy.

Museum Trip

Room ten was at the museum. One of the places we visited was the volcano room. In the volcano room there were some kind of different rocks that come out of a volcano. I tried to lift one rock up out of 3. I was trying really hard but it was really heavy. When I lifted the rock up I was sweating. Next, I wrote down facts about a volcano. This is one of the facts: Volcanologists might also use breathing equipment.
Before we started doing those things we went into the volcano house. It showed the news and it showed the ash pouring out of the volcano. Next room ten went out of the volcano house and went to Maori Natural History gallery.

Auckland Museum Visit

On Wednesday the 29th of August 2012 the seniors went on a trip to the Auckland Museum. When I got in to the museum I saw a lot of galleries throughout the whole museum.

After we went through the fashion areas we went to the Volcanic area to look at the different kinds of rocks that come out of the volcano. When I finished looking at the different rocks room 10 went into a room with a big screen. Room 10 had to sit down on the ground and watch the news. On the news there was a lady talking to a man to ask him if he knew that the eruption was going to be true or false. There was a large amount of smoke coming towards us in the screen. The building started to tilt. There was a strange noise vibrating  the whole room. The music was getting louder and louder and louder.

In the afternoon room 10 went into the Maori areas to learn about the things we would need  take on a journey to New Zealand in a waka. We also had to learn about the first person who followed an octopus to New Zealand. Our tutors’ names’ are Awhina and Leanne. Just before we went into the Hotunui Marae we had to take our shoes of, to show respect to the teacher and also to the ancestor of the marae. After that Awhina asked Timote what  his name was and what his father’s and grandpa’s name was. Finally Awhina said to room 10 that its lunch time. After that we had to go to the front of the museum to say bye.

Hi Everyone,
All the students at Glenbrae School have created an artwork called "A Strip of Aotearoa". Room 10 students worked very hard to create their unique strips. We had to study Maori patterns, learn what they represented and then use them in the correct part of our strips. We drew our patterns with pencil first. Next we went over them in vivid. Finally, we used bright dyes to colour our artworks. These are only some of our creations. We will load another slideshow with some more soon. Enjoy our art show. We'd love to hear what you think.
Room 10.

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