Religious Education: Nathan and Room 20 Style

Our Jellyfish Encounter: Stewart Island. Y6 Camp

We spent days fishing at the wharf. At one point we saw this jellyfish and a shark. Most of the time was spent catching fish and learning to unhook our lines before re-baiting our lines. Oh! the good lines.

Old Time School: 1800s

Hands up who would like the class to look like this!

Stewart Island Year 6 Camp. Term 2. 2010

Here we are the week before camp getting our gear checked.
On the road again...we can't wait to get on the road again.
ah! It's that way ------->

Mihimihi
I am learning to understand what a mihimihi is as I learn to construct my own.

What is a Mihimihi?
Mihimihi are introductory speeches which take place at the beginning of a gathering after the more formal pōwhiri. Mihimihi are generally in te reo Māori and can be given by females and males.

Why is it important to say your mihimih?
Mihimihi establish links with other people present. Mihimihi involve individuals standing to introduce themselves by sharing their whakapapa (genealogy, ancestral ties) and other relevant information. It is important for Māori to know and to share their whakapapa - to know one’s whakapapa is to know one’s identity.

Here are some examples of how to present information in interesting ways. Room 20 are creative thinkers, super work.

Anzac Biscuit Anyone?? or maybe a glass of milk??

The week of Anzac Day had Room 20 finding out about young soldiers who had lied about their age and had got to war, children rather than men.

Their homework was to follow the instructions of a recipe, an Anzac Biscuit recipe and provide the class with a sample. Someone forgot to tell them to bring a glass of milk to go with the biscuits!

We had 30 biscuits to choose from. We were taste testing, tasting to find the yummiest biscuit. What a job! Thirty plates were collected from the staffroom and each had a number visible from 1 to 30 and on the underneath of the plate was the child’s name. Each learner had a card from 1 to 30 and they needed to give the biscuit a 1, 2 or a 3, 3 being the yummiest, most delicious, scrumptious biscuit. At the end the class collated the scores and we had a winner “ _______________” ask me at home if you want to know.