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Reduce - Reuse - Recycle

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  What is this? What are these symbols?  Amazing Arewhana have been working collaboratively in a 4 man group to come up with ideas on how to protect our Earth. They were given information about the 3 Rs and how they can save the Earth. There were four parts to their investigating. 1. What is Pollution? They were given a work sheet and had to mark out 10 objects that were polluting the Earth. 2. Learning more about the 3 Rs; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.   How can we reduce to save the Earth. The children came up with many ideas they will be doing at home as well as at school. 3. Learning about rubbish and recycling. The children were given rubbish to sort out and put into categories. This they enjoyed. 4. Collaborating to produce a poster. This was a not so easy task. They had to make sure that each one in their group had produced some work that they could call their own. This was the criteria for their posters. These are their master pieces.

RAISE OUR BOYS

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WHAT IS 'RAISE OUR BOYS'? This is an initiative to prevent violence towards women. We talked about respect and being loving to all. We made ribbons to stand up against what is happening. We want to be great leaders for our future. We in Amazing Arewhana will try to raise awareness in our homes and in communities.
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Amazing Arewhana Amazing Arewhana had a blast this week. This swimming lesson was about staying together and staying safe. The scenario was if the children were ever to fall out of a boat, then they would some how know, how to stay afloat, stay warm and stay safe until someone could rescue them.  These Arewhana were really amazing, why? because they needed to fall backwards into the pool, and be willing to trust their swimming instructors to be there when they fell in and to swim on their backs from their previous lessons given. This would help them feel safe around water at all times, even home with the bath tub. The children enjoyed the life jackets wearing and being safe inside and outside with water. Hope you enjoy our photos because we had a blast!!.

WEEK 5 OF AMAZING AREWHANA

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AMAZING AREWHANA This week has been absolutely crazy cool. We were winners again for the 'Tidy Kiwi' which makes us 5 times winners. And we also won the percentage of 'ATTENDANCE' of weeks 3-4 and 5. Thank you to the Amazing Arewhana parents for sending their little Arewhana's to school. We are trying very hard to come to school everyday for our learning. This week we were also 'HOST's to the whole school Assembly. We have been practising these two Māori songs since term 2 and 3 with our buddy class 'Clever Cookies', and we think we were pretty amazing. Thank you Clever Cookies for being awesome with us. PUREREHUA

WEEK 4 of AMAZING AREWHANA's LEARNING

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Amazing Arewhana This week Amazing Arewhana have done a lot of revising. This means, seeing what they know now from what they had when they entered Year 3. These children are absolutely AMAZING and know they are going to be greater YEAR 4s. Here a few photos of them doing lesson 2 swimming at Papatoetoe Pools, fractions in maths and inquiry of how to help our Earth survive by connecting with how and why we have endangered animals. Thank you for visiting our blog.

Amazing Arewhana Week 3

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PAPATOETOE CENTENNIAL POOLS & LEISURE CENTRE Amazing Arewhana are lucky enough to be part of the Swimming Programme at these pools. Our first lesson was to be put into 'Swimming groups' of  HOW WELL WE CAN SWIM. So firstly we had to swim in twos for up to 30 metres, with lots of splashing and laughing we were told 1 or 2 or 3. Once that was done we were told to go to the Swimming instructors who were 1, 2 or 3 and then we would start our learning. Some children were a bit worried that they would not touch the ground at first, but once they got over the fear of being at a new environment, they were able to trust and believe that they could stand up. We can't wait for our next swimming lesson too. _________________________________________ PERCY & HETTIE & CHICKENS FEEDING & CLEANING... This week is our turn for keeping our farm animals feed and environment clean. We were so excited as we have never been up that close and personal touchi