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!

Tuakana/Teina Learning

 Learning from our tuakana

Ngai Takoto Whakatauki -  He iti marangai, tu ana te pahukahuka, He iti pioke no Rangaunu he au tona… 

Small although the pioke may be, great is its wake, as it traverses the might of the Rangaunu harbour.

To help us learn the whakatauki (saying) of our local Ngai Takoto iwi, we asked our expert tuakana (older students) to teach us the words and actions.

Nga mihi Te Manga! You were wonderful teachers and now we know our whakatauki off by heart!!

Videos to follow...

TUAKANA/TEINA DAY!

 Our Learning Day with Te Manga

We spent a day in the whare with an older class.

We learnt titi torea or stick games.

Some siblings chose to work together...

... and they worked happily with one another.

The big kids helped us illustrate our poems.

We illustrated the legend of 'Rona and the Moon'

We all loved our tuakana/teina day and have made some new friends!

Learning the titi torea and waiata for 'Rona' 

Titiro ki nga marama! Tino pai!

Te Pihi Class Awards Week 8

 

Check out this week's awesome learners...

100 club Reading awards: 
Kyrie and Halo 200 nights of reading!
And they received their second free Duffy book to keep!
Rachael 75 nights of reading!
Well done guys, keep it up!

Class and School Awards:

Nova got one of the 'Caught Being Good' Awards for our school this week 

for being a leader of her own learning! And she also got a free Duffy book.

April got a class certificate for her confidence in te reo Maori!

Arlen got a class certificate for his happy and chatty return to school!

Thomas received our class values 'Integrity/Ngakau' award for his honesty and straight talking!

Ka rawe tamariki ma! Tino pai to mahi!

Junior Kapa Haka

Each week Te Whare Kiwi practices our waiata-a-ringa!

 

Taringa, kanohi, ihu, mangai...

One Day a Taniwha...

Te Hope Hope

Tena koe, Hello to one!

Tutira Mai Nga Iwi

Kia Ngawari!

Ka rawe ta matou waiata!

Te Tiriti o Te Pihi

 Te Pihi have been learning about The Treaty of Waitangi! 

We read the Tree Hut Treaty and discussed problem solving, making agreements and promises. 

Then we agreed on some promises for our class for this year, so that we can all work, learn and play happily.

Each person in our class signed our treaty, even the teachers.

When we signed we agreed to the treaty.

A treaty is a list of promises.

We are all happy with our treaty which is called Te Tiriti o Te Pihi
or Te Pihi's Treaty.