home

Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe

||= Be Safe
 * = Be Kind

||= Be Your Best ||

SAM CHECKING OUT MRS CURTIS MOVING THE LAWNS media type="custom" key="20742996" Kia ora friends and family. This is the place we will share our learning, good learning activities for at home and school and keep you up to date about what is happening in our class. Please feel free to visit and to tell other family members about us. We are very proud of what we do in our class.

A huge congratulation to the children who are exhibiting their family treasures at the Rotorua Museum. The museum invited these children to a special lunch and opening ceremony on Friday. Make sure go along and have a look at the fabulous work done by these children for the exhibition.

FAMILY TREASURES 2012 - NGA TAONGA TUKU IHO
Starts: **Saturday, August 4, 2012**  Finishes: **Sunday, November 4, 2012**  Gallery: **Rotorua Trust Galleries**  Time: **9am - 5pm**  Price: **Included in Museum General Admission**  **This exhibition showcases cherished treasures from Rotorua families. When choosing a treasure participants were asked to consider its origins and why it is important to their whanau (family), with many pieces being passed down through several generation**  They belong to Year 5 and 6 students from selected Rotorua schools and well known identities in the Rotorua community.  Each treasure has provided a way of sharing stories, knowledge and skills, and raising awareness of identity to the families they belong to and now the wider community.  This exhibition is included in Museum admission which is $18 for adults and $7 for children, however entry is free to local residents with relevant ID.

media type="custom" key="20534332" width="297" height="297" align="center"

media type="custom" key="20534336" width="317" height="317" align="center"

Native Tree Planting at the Rotorua Lakefront. 'Local and Loving It'



Check out our Olympics page. @OLYMPICS

Find out more about the things you want to know at FACT MONSTER Don't forget to visit study ladder for some fun learning activities! study ladder

What a fabulous end to Term 2. We spent the morning at the museum learning about Matariki and technology of early Maori. When we returned to school we had a shared luch. Everyone brought family favourites to share.

Asty with her medal from the gym comp.

__** Sarah Ulmer visited with the ANZ Olympic bus. **__ Thank you for a fantastic learning experience and all the goodies for the kids.

Different tribes celebrated Matariki at different times. For some it was when Matariki rose in May/June. For others it was celebrated at the first new moon, or full moon, following the rising of Matariki. In the 21st century it is the new moon following the rising of Matariki that signals the New Year. Use the resources on the left to study about Matariki. ||= Click here to learn more about Matariki || media type="youtube" key="RKL6V69RLxo" height="315" width="420" align="center"
 * = ** When is Matariki? **

Ice Skating

media type="custom" key="19504428" align="center"

media type="custom" key="19508218" align="center"

Book Character Day media type="custom" key="19513298"

Use the fabulous link below to help you write your biography. @http://www.timeforkids.com/homework-helper/a-plus-papers

media type="custom" key="17554936" align="center"

By Orrin Scrimshaw is an original art form and it was first done by whalers, who scratched and inked bone and teeth during their leisure time. The picture dad scrimshawed on it was of a photo of Thomas Crean taken on the ice during the shakelton expedition from 19 14 to 1917. Dad really liked the photo and decided to do it. It took him a week to finish. First he sanded the tooth down to make it smooth then he made a tool like a needle and used it to make dots and scratches on the tooth, dad rubbed Indian into the marks which turned them black. He had to use strong magnifying glasses when he was doing this scrimshaw because he blew his eye out when he was 18 by making a homemade grenade. It is special to my family because dad put effort into it and you are not allowed to have them in New Zealand anymore. ||
 * [[image:room112012/IMG_2627.jpg width="190" height="252"]]
 * || My treasure is my dad’s whale tooth. The tooth was gifted to my dad by a neighbor, Brigadier Ian Thorpe who acquired the tooth while contracted to command the royal Fiji military forces from 1979 to 1982. It’s a tooth from the upper jaw of a sperm whale. It probably got to Fiji from Russian whalers as barter. These teeth (tarbua) were regarded as one of their most precious possessions.

Gemini || My treasure sits in a special place at the homestead where it won’t get wrecked or broken. It’s something that no one is allowed to touch, only when it comes to something important. It was an ordinary little stick until my Koro Jack carved. He carved it into a patu because he loved carving. It has Maori designs that he created on it. Before he died my Koro Jack passed the patu on to my nan who was his sister. My nan passed it on to me last year. She told me it was so special to her and for me to pass it down to someone special when I get old. It is so special to me because my koro passed it down to my nan and my nan passed it on to me. Now I am going to pass it on to my new born nephews and Kingdom when they grow up. They are so special to me too. ||
 * [[image:room112012/SDC11306.JPG width="160" height="210"]]


 * ||  || [[image:room112012/IMG_2495.jpg width="239" height="335"]] . ||

In box lays a glove case with three gloves that have never been worn. It was brought in Rotortua in 1947 when our great great nana came to Rotorua for a day with her family. She gave it to her mum for a present then one day it was given back to her. It has three gloves in it that have never been worn before. One of them is blue, one is pink and one is a kind of bronze colour. Our nan told us that Mount Tarawera is in the background behind the beautiful lake. There are four houses with people outside. She said the picture is of Maori village. The back of it has Greetings from Rotorua on it.

The glove holder is special because it has been passed down three generations already. Our great great nana passed it down to our great nana then she passed it down to our nana Glenys Dawson. She treasures it because of the names on it.

When our great nana went into the nursing home she asked the people there to call her Lecky. No one knows how or when she was ever called Lecky but we think that her mum and dad must have called her that because that is the name is on the glove holder.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Nana is going to pass her treasure down to our mum one day. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">BY REECE AND JACOB DAWSON




 * __My Family Treasure – by Matthew Little__ My treasure is a wooden needle that was used by my great grandmother to fix camouflage nets during World War 2. This was when she was only a teenager.The nets were used on the New Zealand shores. They were used on the News Zealand shorelines to stop the Japanese and German submarines from coming on to our land.With the waves and such they would get damaged so the RSA men would take them to a hall in some towns like Bulls where my great grandmother would go after school and help the Women's Institute ladies mend them. :) || [[image:room112012/IMG_2490.jpg width="320" height="423"]] ||

Caterpillar Treasure You’re treasure is probably a piece of jewellery or land but mine is a 1928 Caterpillar 15 motor-patrol grader. In shorter words ‘bulldozer’.

My Caterpillar motor-patrol grader is in the NZ Caterpillar Experience Museum at Fairy Springs. The bulldozer is very rare, in fact it is the only one left in the world. The motor-patrol grader is grey and still works, people from all over the world come to see the motor-patrol grader. My pop who owns the museum found all of the bulldozers in the bush and them started again and transferred them to the museum.

The museum is also special to me because I always go there and when I see it, it reminds me of how brave he is. Ruby Ryan



** Greenstone **

My great grandmother‘s taonga is a greenstone necklace shaped like a long teardrop. My great grandmother Taipapaki Curtis passed it down to my granddad Bill Curtis. It is special to me because it is the only memory we have of her. I am lucky because I have seen a photo of her in the book Pakiwaitara by Don Stafford. My dad said it came from Waikato. Its colours are all different shades of green and sometimes I think I can nearly see through it. When I look at the greenstone I wonder about my great grandma and how it was then when she was alive and I know that she will be proud that her grandson is keeping it safe for her. ** Alexa Curtis **



'Local and Loving It'

Students have been busy in the garden weeding and fertilising so that we can replant it.They have been identifying what they know about trees and what they are used for. They also have many questions for learning .We are currently exploring the life cycle of a tree and how paper is made.Students are making great progress with their swimming and really looking forward to camp in week 9.We will be hosting the games at the Splash Out on Thursday of Week 3. HOPE WE SEE YOU THERE!
 * || [[image:https://sites.google.com/site/room112012/_/rsrc/1329341707947/home/SDC10420.JPG?height=150&width=200 width="200" height="150" link="https://sites.google.com/site/room112012/home/SDC10420.JPG?attredirects=0"]]

||