Nau mai haere mai ki He Puna Kōtuitui 2019! Welcome to He Puna Kōtuitui 2019!

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We have been unpacking our class name...

At Carlton all our classrooms are called 'Puna'
A puna is a spring (of water) - we came up with ideas for why we thought our classes were being compared to a 'spring'. These are some of our ideas...



"It's about life, bringing life"
"Water makes things grow, like we are growing and getting smarter"
"The water moves, and changes and it changes things around it and makes them better"

Then we thought about why OUR Puna is called 'Kōtuitui' and what THAT might be all about...


Kōtuitui is all about interconnectedness. The children are beginning to learn about how words are made and about how some big words begin with a smaller word- this word is called the 'root word'. The root word of interconnectedness is 'connect'. 
The children thought about why we would be thinking about connections and connectedness. These are some of their ideas...

"Because we are all here to help each other"
"If we work together our learning will be easier'
"We learn more if we work together"
"We need each other"




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