Pipe cleaner Christmas ornaments

Click here for lots of videos on how to make pipe cleaner Christmas ornaments.

Folding a triorama

Using plasticine clay to create an animal sculpture

Animal Quizzes on National Geographic Kids

 

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/quizzes

Reflection, Rotation & Translation - Online activities

	Shapes in Motion
	Transformation Game for Kids
	Transformations
	Symmetry Matching

Time and Clocks

https://www.mathsisfun.com/time-clocks.html

Design a Christmas Basket

15 Things You Didn't Know About NERF

See the world's largest NERF gun below...

Watch this video about the previous record holder...

Nerf News

Upcoming pool trip

 

Maddie Davidson / Trampolining

Click here to learn more about Maddie Davidson and Olympic trampolining.

Would you rather... By John Burningham

 

Would you rather...?

 

All about Maddie Davidson

Draw some Awesome!

Read about this competition on Kiwikids News!

To celebrate the launch of Donovan Bixley’s new book Draw Some Awesome we want to see your awesome drawing. You could win $100 worth of AWESOME Donovan Bixley books from Upstart Press.

How to Enter
1. Watch the video below to get some helpful tips from Donovan.

2. Look around your home or classroom for interesting shapes, like a hair dryer. Use your imagination to turn the shape into a fantastical drawing. Everyday inspiration is all around you… you could turn a pot plant into a drawing of a fancy ball dress, or maybe one of your mum’s shoes would make a cool spaceship. Let your imagination fly.

3. When you’re done, send your entry through – we can’t wait to see it!

It's Safari Book Week!

Week 5 Maths - Practice Questions

Safari Book Week - Independent Literacy Choices

PB Puppet Show

Hāwai 9 Literacy - Week 4

That is NOT a good idea!

 

Prototec - Basic Facts practice

 

https://maths.prototec.co.nz/

Mrs C Maths - Rounding to the nearest 10 & 100

 

Head to Khan Academy to watch a video and practice your rounding

Mrs C Maths - Online practice

 Addition Aces - Addition to 20 - Wac-A-Mole

Fab Fractions - Rounding to the nearest 10

Nifty numbers - Coconut multiples

How to make a Paper Fortune Teller

 

    Paper Fortune Tellers

Kiwi Kids News - Week 1, Term 4

 Bat included in NZ Bird of the Year competition

Week 10 Kiwi Kids News

Winnie the Pooh's Cottage for Rent

Geometry Quiz Online

https://www.beano.com/posts/shape-quiz

Things to do - by Elaine Magliaro

 

Geometry Wonderings

• Is there a shape with 100 sides?
• What is the shape with the most edges?
• Is there a shape with 98 edges?
• Is there a shape that no one has discovered before?
• What is the most common shape on our planet?
• Is there a shape with only one edge?
• Why do they call it geometry
• Do scientists use shapes to create robots / androids?
• Is there a shape with 70 faces?
• Is there a shape with 200 faces?
• What shape in the world has the most faces?
• What jobs use Geometry the most?
• Where do shapes come from? How were they made / invented / discovered?
• Is there a shape with no sides?
• Why are shapes called what they're called?

Week 9 Kiwi Kid News

    Click the link to read this week's Kiwi Kids News article 

    Four Civilians Blast into Space

Geometry on Maths is Fun

 

Geometry Self Directed Choices

Geometry Self Directed Choices

Kiwi Kids News: Komodo Dragon in danger of extinction

E-Ako Maths Practice

 

https://e-ako.nzmaths.co.nz/games/games.aspx

Mrs C Literacy - Magnesium sulphate video

 

Olympic Rings

 

Can do options - Online maths

Khan Academy - Fractions

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-third-grade-math/imp-fractions/imp-fractions-intro/e/that-s-not-fair-

Cool Maths games

https://www.coolmathgames.com/1-number-games

Maths is fun

https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/index.html

Hāwai 9 Maths Websites

Maths Games - identifying fractions practice

Number Worms

Group 2 Video to watch

 

Mrs C Maths - Improper fractions to Mixed numbers

 

Origami fortune teller

 

Robot Creativity

 Today we made 'bots' in Hāwai 9...

First we discussed what part robots play in our society, that they do jobs humans can't yet (like rove around Mars and explore the seafloor).

Then we planned our robots by drawing them and looking at what materials we'd need to make them look like our plan. We shared and negotiated because the boxes needed to be shared equally!

The best part was constructing the robots and decorating them. Here are some photos of the finished products!

The Learning Pit - Whānau Trees take 2

I think you'll find this exercise easier the second time around! Enjoy!

Self Portrait

Guiness World Records Kids

 

Check out https://kids.guinnessworldrecords.com/ and read about

some world records for literacy this week.

Khan Academy - Intro to Fractions

Khan Academy - Intro to Fractions

Whānau Tree

String games

 

Click here to find lots of string game instructions on Youtube!

Fact families - Relating division to multiplication

 

Watch the video then work your way through the practice questions...

Rakau Song

 

Khan Academy - Division Intro

Watch the video then work your way through the practice questions...

All about bees and the food chain

All about bees and the food chain

Cross Country course for Whanaketanga

Design a playground competition!

Making music and exploring sound online

Have a go at making your own sounds and creating some music online!

https://www.fun2think.com/free-online-music-making-for-kids/

The Ukulele Maker

Understanding Multiplication

Magnets

 

Climate Change Vocabulary Match-up

Special card making

 Card making idea - flowers

Margaret Mahy Playground

Read, watch and explore Margaret Mahy Playground.....

Kiwi Kids News article - Margaret Mahy playground opens

Stuff news article - Multimillion-dollar Margaret Mahy playground open for fun in Christchurch

Margaret Mahy Playground - video 

Margaret Mahy Playground - flyover

Click the link to see Picture gallery and 360 degree view of the playground.

Victoria Square

 Explore Victoria Square! 

There are lots of amazing things to look at in Victoria Square.
Can you see anything familiar?
Can you see anything that we have in our own kura or community?

Giant ship blocks the Suez canal

If you could invent something AMAZING to free this stuck ship, what would it be? What are its features? Draw / design what it would look like and how it works.

How to make an origami boat

 

Look who came to visit!

 

Two lovely guinea pigs came to visit Hāwai 9 today. Their names are Teddy and Ginger-squeak. We adore them! Take a look below about how to care for guinea pigs...

The Zoo Debate

Step by Step Moa drawing

 

How to draw a Kiwi

 

(note - Kiwi are from New Zealand, not Australia!)

Ngāi Tahu Mahinga Kai

Ngāi Tahu Mahinga Kai is a lifestyle series featuring 12 ten minute episodes filmed in the stunning landscape of Te Waipounamu. It captures the stories and essence of traditional food gathering practices passed down through the generations.

The series offers a window into the lives of Ngāi Tahu whānau carrying on the food gathering traditions of their ancestors – from tūna and pātiki on the east coast, medicinal rongoā plants in the north and kanakana in the far south. Through our characters we explore the evolution of the practice – its past, present and future and we learn about the species and their natural environment.

Watch series here: Mahinga Kai

Ōpāwaho – Heathcote River

Ōpāwaho – Heathcote River

 

Understanding Kanakana

 

Stevie Blair releasing tagged kanakana.

While many people recognise kanakana as a taonga species, little is actually known about them including their spawning and migration habits.

“Kanakana have been around since before the dinosaurs – with fossil records from 450 million years ago – yet we still know very little about them,” says Dr Jane Kitson. “They migrate at night, are very difficult to monitor and are a nationally vulnerable threatened species that we are at risk of losing,“ she says.

The understanding to date is that adult kanakana migrate into Southland rivers from the ocean at this time of year. Then they remain in the rivers for around 15 months before they spawn.

Steph Blair, Waikawa whānau member and Tangata Tiaki, says that kanakana are intertwined in our whakapapa. “Kanakana feed our souls and keeps the memory of our Tupuna alive,” says Steph. “Kanakana are taonga and a kai that have fed our tīpuna for generations and we need to do everything we can to ensure we protect kanakana for future generations,” she says.

Audio

Eel song

Eel song 

Velvet and Elvis - A mother and son story of New Zealand’s longfin eels

 Velvet and Elvis - A mother and son story of New Zealand’s longfin eels

Tuna and Hiriwa

Tuna and Hiriwa 

Iron Tamariki

The White Tailed Spider