Montessori@Matakana: June 2016

Thursday 30 June 2016

Thursday 23 June 2016

Thursday 16 June 2016

We are Aotearoa by Hannah Milo & Ella Dale

Nibbles and Pickles Update

We took some individuals photos and photos together with the guinea pigs, I hope you like them.

Love this !!

Te aroha - LoveTe whakapono - FaithMe te rangimarie - Peace

This is a beautiful song that we sang this afternoon to conclude our farewell ceremony to Elizabeth and William.

Garden Post

The Garden

Hi and welcome to our garden we are the Head Gardeners. Our goal is is to plant,harvest and cook with the food from the garden we might even sell our crops for fundraising.

All the Leaves

It would have taken a looonnng time to rake up all the leaves but we had some help from the Foxes.

Meet the Head Gardeners.

Hi, I will be writing this blog.My goal for the garden is to be able sell and/or use them in our cooking.

Hi, I am a Head Gardener I enjoy my role as a Head Gardener as I get to co-operate with the other students in my class.My goal is to have a beautiful garden.

Hi, I'm a Head Gardener. My goal is to sell the crops for fundraising. I will also be helping with the slide show.

Our latest additional to Rm15

Welcome to the Room 15 family Nibbles!!!

Thursday 9 June 2016

Science and Technology Day in Room15

Technology and collaboration....

This term our science day took a Montessori twist - following the interests and strengths of our whanau members, seeing tuakana working with teina and sharing their robotics skills...

A very big thank you to Renee and Chris...

For sharing their own knowledge and time with a group of students who built online rockets!

Montessori materials....

that align with the interests of groups and individuals were explored. This was a great opportunity for students to remember past learning and apply their knowledge as they shared with newer members of our whanau...

And great discussions about our world... and our universe resulted from this exploration.

To piece things altogether....

We revisited previous learning about the creation of the earth and its layers, and used this knowledge to unpack the myth "The Battle of the Mountains". As a suggestion from one of the whanau this battle was recreated by the teina for the tuakana to enjoy.