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!

 

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!

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!!

Book Character Day!

 Dress-Up Fun!

We had a lot of fun thinking about our favourite books and our favourite characters to dress up as. 

The dress up box came out and everyone got into character! 

Amazing Maze Fun!

 The Gardener's Maze

We recently shared the big book 'The Gardener's Maze' and discussed what the gardener needed to make a maze out of hedge plants from scratch. We learnt how to make lists. We went hunting for new words. 

Then we tried to create our own mazes from our maths equipment. 

One of our reading groups read a story about a maze made out of maize in New Zealand. 

Next we found some 3D mazes to try out and we are trying to beat our times and increase the level of difficulty with different mazes.

We are learning directions like: forwards, backwards, left, right, enter and exit.

We all think mazes are amazing!!

High Tea Party for King Charles III Coronation

Te Pihi were invited to a high tea party for King Charles III Coronation! 

Mikayla read the invitation out to the class. 

So we talked about how we would prepare for our high tea party.....the food and drink we would have, the clothes we would wear and the decorations we needed to make.

We dressed up in our special dresses and collared shirts and wore our accessories (crowns, bow ties, gloves and pearl necklaces). We had to practise our Royal wave and how to sit nicely.

Michele turned the teachers' chair into a Royal throne chair and added some Royal accessories.

We ate cucumber and cheese sandwiches, sausage rolls, cupcakes, scones, lamingtons, meringues, fairy bread and kebabs.

Mrs Hammond and Michele were our waitresses. We drank iced tea out of really old tea cups and Mrs Dane let us use her really old English teapot. Rereata knew how to hold a tea cup like a Royal!

Mrs Hammond found some special English music to play on our Activ Board while we had our high tea party. We had so much fun and the food was really yummy!