MATHS....NUMBER

I love thinking of neat ways for my akonga to learn about number and these pipe cleaner were tu meke! They really enjoyed manipulating the pipe cleaners to make their numbers. I found it a really effective way to teach number formation, how to read numbers, order numbers and we also talked about numbers before and after.  Some extension activties included getting an akonga and a friend to put their numbers together to make a big number, finding them on a hundreds board and talking about the numbers before and after

TAUPARAPARA

Each morning in my class we start with our tauparapara.

We recite a karakia, the school pepeha and sing a waiata.

Here are the school karakia.

We say this one at the start of the day. 

We say this karakia at the end of the day.

Here is the school pepeha.

Our waiata is tena koe

tena koe-hello to one

tena korua-hello to two

tena koutou-hello to all

haere mai everyone-welcome everyone

Each day before kai we say this karakia kai