End of Year Trip!

 Ahipara Beach Fun!

Last Friday we set off in cars and a bus to have some end-of-year fun, as a reward for all our hard work this year! The four Junior classes went to Korora St Park for a play, ice-blocks and morning tea. Then we went to the beachfront to play in the sand and rockpools and have lunch. 

Everyone had a great time, had loads of fun and were perfectly behaved! Thank you so much to all our whanau who came to transport, help out and supervise!

Hangin'10!

Sheltering from a shower.

Busy creative sand play!

This pool was chest-deep!

Crab hunting!

The deepest pool was up to our necks!

Thanks Rawiri, for the pack-up snacks!

Science in a Story

 Cooper the Ant!

Te Pihi read a great story called 'Grant the Ant.' We learnt a lot about an ant colony, the ants' tasks, and their life cycle.

Cooper wrote a great story and was our 'Writer of the Day!'

Then Cooper volunteered to act as an ant and show part of the the life cycle. Science is fun!

The queen lays the eggs.
When the larvae hatch out, they spin a cocoon around themselves.

Breaking out of the cocoon after four months! "How's that!?"

Now he is called a pupae. He wakes up so hungry!

Off goes Cooper the Ant to find food wherever he can.

Mm-mm... yummy ant food at the Seedling Cafe!!

Learning Fun!

 We have fun learning in Te Pihi!

Maths construction with colours, shapes, cooperation and compromise. 

Our pepeha/ tatai rangatira is how we introduce our school.

Come and see them in the school office.

Completing our maths tasks.

Math Seeds helps us learn.

Ordering at the Seedling Cafe!

These two besties can korero Maori.

Learning is fun!

Halloween dress-up day 2023

Today we dressed up and enjoyed some "trick or treating" to celebrate Halloween. Here are some of our Te Pihi students in their cool costumes! We wrote some neat stories too.

Nevaeh in her pretty witch dress with Mrs Hammond's broomstick!

 

 Here is Valley as a black angel. Look at her beautiful feathered wings.

Collins came as Wednesday Adams with her scary hand called "Thing" sitting on her shoulder. Eeek!!!!

Here is Cooper as a transformer named "Bumble Bee"

Anahera came as a sparkly fairy!

Dayah wore a skeleton suit, had scary vampire teeth and an axe.

Oh, look at our beautiful angel, Tearyus-Reign!

Goodness it's another Bumble Bee transformer.....

it was hard to tell that it was Reuben with his mask on.

I wonder who this was....oh that's right, it was Rocky who spooked everyone with his scary mask and chainsaw.

Go the All Blacks!

Paparore School are getting behind the New Zealand All Blacks for their final game against South Africa (the Springboks) in the Rugby World Cup in Paris, France. We dressed up in black for our school's "Black Out Day" to show our support. Some of us will hopefully get up early on Sunday morning to watch the big game. Good luck ABs from Te Pihi!

Inquiry topic "From Garden to the Table"

We have been learning how to GERMINATE seeds in our classroom WITHOUT USING SOIL. First we pushed a seed into wet cotton wool. Then we put that into a small plastic bag. After one week, most of our bean seeds are already spouting. We will be watching them over the next few weeks and recording what we see. Soon we will be able to transplant them into our school garden where they will hopefully grow into larger bean plants. We can't wait!