Our school wide inquiry focus for Term 2 was navigation. We used the 'Learn, Create, Share' pedagogy but it is worth noting that within this inquiry we bounced between 'Learn, Create and Share' phases many times throughout the inquiry.
In my class we learnt about how people used to travel in the past. We learnt that people used to travel in boats and use the stars, sun and moon to find their way to new places.
We created our own waka. It was such a joy to see the kids excitedly running into the classroom each morning with items from their recycling bins at home to use to make their boats. It was a simple way to connect their learning at school with their home life and for them to contribute to their own learning at school. All of the children brought along something to use to make a boat, some kids brought along many many items! We looked at the waka houroa and use this as a starting place for our designs. Our waka all had a sails, a mast and a hull. We tested them in the water to see if they could float!
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Our navigation learning was summed up by trip to the Stardome observatory to see their Matariki show. We learnt that people used the Matariki whetu for navigation. It was a fabulous end to our navigation unit and led us into the season of Matariki.
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We also created some stunning Matariki whetu that are now very proudly on display in the school office, as one of the tamariki said, "oh, that's a great place...everyone will see our stars there!".
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In the new term we will be celebrating Matariki as a whole school with waiata and a hangi.
Manawatia a Matariki!
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