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!

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!

Learning Fun in Te Pihi

 We learn best when we're having fun!

Counting, turn-taking and directional skills!

Learn, create, share!

Team work!

Listening, following directions and keeping the beat.

Independent reading time

Patterning in maths

We have been learning how to copy and continue a repeating pattern. 

We had fun exploring patterning with some of our maths equipment.

Maesi-Jane made a rainbow pattern with the peg boards.

Collins made a pattern with the beads on a string.

Mikaere-Jay made a really LONG pattern with the unifix cubes. 

His pattern was as long as his entire body!

Phoenix made two different patterns with the unifix cubes.

Reuben made a coloured pattern with some of the members of the family set.

 

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!!

Te Pihi Autumn vibes!

Weeks 5, 6 & 7 

Learning to strum the ukelele.

We can play 'Row, row, row your boat'.

A treaty is a written list of promises.

Everyone agreed on our list.

And then we all signed our treaty.

We had a fun party to farewell two of our boys who were moving away. Mrs Hammond came too!

Haere ra Josiah and Levi. 

We learnt to get in and out of any pool safely.

The 3 Junior classes had a FUN SWIM afternoon.

We are learning the symbols for fractions. We cut one whole watermelon into half.

Then into quarters.
Then eighths.
Then sixteenths.

Then we ate it!!

JUICY!

DRIPPY!

DELICIOUS!