ANZAC Day commemorations in Te Pihi 2024

"ANZAC" stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ANZAC Day is to remember all the Australian and New Zealanders who gave their lives in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping missions around the world. It is also a time to remember and thank all those who have served and have continued to serve in the Australian and New Zealand armies.

We baked ANZAC biscuits today to remember the soldiers who served our country at war.

Billy is helping to add the ingredients into the bowl.

Millie is helping to mix all the ingredients together.

Frankie is rolling the biscuit mixture into a ball.

And here are our yummy biscuits all ready to eat.

We ate our yummy ANZAC biscuits at the flag pole.

Here are our poppy pictures (done using a YouTube tutorial for kids).

We love drawing!

Our new sound this week in structured literacy was y/Y and the character was Yasmin the yak. Mrs Hammond showed us how to draw tricky pictures using tutorials on YouTube. We learnt how to draw a yak and then we added our own background to make our pictures more personalised. It was so much fun!

 

We are loving school!

Look at all the fun ways we learn!

Full school fitness!

Jump Jam!

C is for Cooper Caterpillar

Our self portraits!

St Patrick's Green Dress-Up Day!

A is for apple!

 A, a, Ally Alligator likes apples!

First we learnt how to write upper and lower case Aa

We learnt how to use a special machine to cut our apples.

We made a spiral shape!

Then we ate them! Amazing!!

Little Learners Loving Literacy!

Milo Monkey!

"This is Marvellous!!"

Milo helping us to learn the alphabet sounds or phonemes.

Milo doing some marking, "Magnificent work!"

Milo finding and munching Mmmmms

Forming our letters correctly.

Buddy reading!

 

Making block graphs

For our maths topic Statistics, we have been learning about making graphs. In our table groups we were given a packet of M&Ms.  

We had to sort them into their colour groups and then count each in the group.

Then we made a block graph to show how many of each colour were in our packet. 

A fun start to 2024!

 Te Pihi in 2024!!

Welcome to all our new students and their families! We are happy to have you all in the Te Pihi whanau!

Here's a peek at how we have started our year of learning...

Look at our kind and happy tamariki!