Join Monique Cox-Timmer and learn about making connections between your own experiences and those of the people in the text [DOCX, 58KB]

Key resource:

• The Garden Surprise - by Feana Tu‘akoi, illustrated by Matthew Haworth, Ready to Read, 2018
• My Flower – Poem card, Ready to Read, 2012

Supporting material [PDF, 3.5MB]

Join Monique Cox-Timmer as she explores elements of inclusion and its importance as part of social justice [DOCX, 115KB]

Supporting material [PPTX, 4.4MB]

Join Marissa Paniora and explore how social-practice artists use art to highlight an issue [DOCX, 515KB]

Key resource:

• Fly Me Up - by Catharina van Bohemen, School Journal Level 3, 2018

Supporting material [PPTX, 4.6MB]

Join Shawn Cooper as he explores biosecurity measures needed to protect our native ngahere [DOCX, 600KB]

Key resource:

• Rātā me te Rākau - retold by André Ngāpō, illustrated by Andrew Burdan, Junior Journal 57, 2018

Join Monique Cox-Timmer as she reads the story and make connections between you own experiences and those of people in the text [DOCX, 177KB]

Key resource:

• Simi Helps – by Feana Tu‘akoi, illustrated by Samuel Sakaria, Ready to Read, 2014

Supporting material [PPTX, 3.8MB]

Join Suzy Cato and learn how to create a sequential pattern with familiar objects and predict the next element in a repeating pattern [DOCX, 71.6KB]

Supporting material 1 [PPTX, 87.6]

Supporting material 2 [PDF, 114KB]

Join Monique Cox-Timmer and explore a bread making process by following a series of basic instructions based on a flow chart model [DOCX, 79.5KB]

Key resource:

• Bread - by Bernadette Wilson, Ready to Read, 2016

Supporting material [PDF, 3MB]

Join Marissa Paniora as she explores how photographs can represent a neighbourhood [DOCX, 2MB]

Key resource:

• The Great Ordinary: The Photographs of Edith Amituanai - by Hannah Sperber, School Journal Level 4, 2016
• At the end of the driveway - A poem by Tim Upperton, with images by Edith Amituanai, School Journal Level 4, 2016

Supporting material [PPTX, 4.6MB]

Join Fern Webber as he investigates repeating patterns through the context of wall friezes and learn to recognise patterns that have more than one attribute [DOCX, 71.7KB]

Supporting material [PDF, 113.8KB]

Join Monique Cox-Timmer as she explores the importance of sharing stories with family [DOCX, 109KB]

Key resources:

• Talking to Nanny- Red RTR
• Kia Ora song, Nanny Poem Card

Supporting material [PPTX, 4.35MB]

Join Monique Cox-Timmer to explore the impact of weather on our sense of belonging and make some components of a weather station [DOCX, 119KB]

Key resource:

• Weather instruments

Supporting material [PPTX, 4.5MB] 

Join Marissa Paniora as she focuses on what we mean by a local identity [DOCX, 120KB]

Key resource:

• A ‘local identity’

Supporting material [PPTX, 2.9MB]

Join Fern Webber to explore a growing pattern [DOCX, 101KB]

Key resource:

• Sasa to Tivaevae: A world of patterns

Supporting material [PPTX, 5.6MB]

Join Monique Cox-Timmer to explore how we express our identities through food [DOCX, 211KB]

Key resource:

• The Green Team JJ 52

Supporting material [PDF, 778KB]

Join Suzy Cato to identify quarter, half and full turns in movement and dance [DOCX, 106KB]

Key resource:

• Polyfest Performance Highlights video, The Coconet TV

The purpose of this lesson is to appreciate the importance of Tūrangawaewae and whakataukī [DOCX, 244KB]

Key resource:

• Tūrangawaewae powerpoint

Supporting material [PPTX, 3.1MB]

Join Monique Cox-Timmer to celebrate everyday superheroes (nurses, supermarket workers) in our communities, and design an everyday superhero [DOCX, 108KB]

Key resource:

• A Stuff article about the British artist Banksy and esteem for healthcare workers

Supporting material [PPTX, 3.5MB]