Culture Term 1

Room 2's Korowai

As part of our culture unit we made a korowai. This is a special treasure for the Maori culture. It is a cloak with feathers.

On Wednesday we made our own Korowai. We wove it out of paper. One way we wrote the names of the different cultures we have in New Zealand and our school. The other way we wrote we were all New Zealanders. We wove them together and decorated it with feathers.

We found out that New Zealand is made up of many different cultures coming together to make one whole culture for New Zealand.

By Samantha, Emily, Ike and Laura

Hebrew Culture

Ella’s mum came and told us about a special celebration that is part of hers and Ella’s culture.

My Mum is from Israel and she is Hebrew. We celebrate Purim mum told us about the festival then she made the special biscuits we eat during the festival. Everyone thought they were yummy.

By Ella, Hannah and Eamonn

Mrs Jansen's Culture

Jadine’s Mum comes from Holland. She talked to us about her Dutch culture. She told us that her home in Holland looks like a two-storied house but it has a third bit at the top that you can’t really see. It’s called an attic. She also told us that on special days of celebration the people in Holland wear special costumes.
Written by Hannah G, Alex T and Jardon.

Elgregoe's Show

On Wednesday Wallacetown School came to watch Elgregoe the Magician with us. Elgregoe talked about Makarewa School manners. He preformed magic tricks and talked to us about Makarewa values and manners.
He said, “ Treat others they way you want to be treated you’ve got the power to make a difference at your school “.
He was exciting to watch.

Written by Nick, Lydia and Preston

Keeping Ourselves safe

Constable Marty came to our school and talked about how we can keep ourselves safe.

Thomson's Bush Trip

We had our trip to Thomsons Bush. We had so much fun there doing different activities like bug finding, weaving, walking in the bush, playing rounders, photography and scavenger hunting.

Ella, Joel, Caleb

sports day

This term we have had our junior and senior sports. We took part in lots of different events like; running, shot put, discus, high jump, and long jump. Ike, Nick, and Hayden all got places in the running races and are off to the zones.
Great stuff, guys.
Written by Hayden, Daniel S, Jacob D.

Legoland

Daniel McPherson’s mum comes from Denmark and she came to school and told us a lot of interesting things about her life in Denmark.
The thing that we found interesting was that Lego comes from Denmark. It was invented there. They make lots of different Lego things in Denmark. Do you know they even have a whole town made of Lego? It is called “ Legoland “.
“ The Lego that you play with at home comes all the way from where my Mum comes from ”, said Daniel M

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