IDENTITY - (Show and tell)

Our Topic for Term 1 is about IDENTITY.  To set the scene, we were given the task to bring personal items or artefacts from home to share with the class  and discuss how it represents us!  Matua Vae surely gave us a big surprise when he walked into the class!

CAN YOU ALL GUESS HOW THESE ITEMS RELATE TO OUR IDENTITY?

Taufa is talking about why he reads the Bible.
Doesn't he look very smart in his Tongan shirt?

Here he shares his Christian belief and why he
goes to church.

Nelly is a supporter of the New Zealand rugby league franchise in the NRL, the NZ Warriors.

What cultural wear do you think is
Deevyn wearing?

Deevyn sharing her family photo album with
her school family.

"I am Catholic and I am proud to be Samoan," -Ema

Everyone taking turns to share about their
identity.

Cheehoo!  Can you guess which local rugby
league club Henry plays for?

Matua Vae!  What are you wearing?  Can you guess how all these items relate to Matua Vae's
IDENTITY?
(His hat, rugby shirt, ties, traditional necklace, lavalava, teddy bear, WWE belt,
rugby medal, whistle, weight belt, tattoo).

Petra sharing how she dresses and also
sharing with us her taonga (Maori greenstone). 

Georgina is dressed in her Cook Island culture
and talking about her Cook Island necklace.

Developing Our Class Treaty - Room 4 Family Tree-ty

With Waitangi Day being celebrated on Monday, we worked together as a class to develop our own class treaty.  We decided that RESPECT would be the key word for our treaty.

                 

  Here we are brainstorming our ideas of when and where we practice

          

ROLE PLAY

After developing our ideas, we worked in our groups to demonstrate situations using role play with the objective of our peers to guess when in different scenarios we show respect.

Respecting property by not damaging it.

Respecting others by learning to give and share.

Respecting the teacher by following instruction and not speaking when they are talking.

Respecting our parents by always listening to them.

Finally, we developed a treaty in the form of a tree which symbolises "family or whanau."  We were each given 5 leaves to describe ourselves (each leaf indicated theses topics: 4 adjectives, family, hobbies, goal for the year and our signature as a contract to abide by the treaty).  On the class treaty, RESPECT is clearly visible.  We developed an acrostic poem for RESPECT for our treaty:

• RESPECT

• Everyone/Each other

• Self/School

• Parents/Property

• Education/Environment

• Classmates/Choices

• Teachers/Treaty

The Finished Product:

"We may all bear different fruits, but we all grow from the same tree."

Welcome To Room 4's Blog

INTRODUCING 

ROOM 4 - Rongomai School

Talofa lava, kia orana, malo e lelei, faka alofa lahi atu and kia ora!  We are a year 5 and 6 class and proud students of Room 4 from Rongomai School! 2017 is going to be a great year!

Our class motto:

"Together Everyone Achieves More"