New jackets and music lessons!

Thank you to the Kids Can Trust for our warm Winter jackets! We LOVE them!

Now we are ready for the Winter rain...!

"We can play C, C, C on the ukulele..."

We can play G and A on the keyboards.

 

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!

Patterning in Maths

Our maths topic for term 3 is Algebra (patterning). We have been learning how to copy and continue repeating patterns. We created some of our own patterns using unifix cubes, beads, lego and foam 2D shapes.

2D Shape Pictures

For our maths topic, geometry we have been learning to name and describe 2D shapes (flat shapes) We made pictures using coloured 2D shapes. We used circles, rectangles, squares, triangles, semi-circles, hexagons, ovals and diamonds. It was so much fun!

A NEW TERM!

Term 2 begins!

Here we are, the new look Te Pihi class, keen and ready to learn!
Welcome to our Te Kakano graduates: Macey, Janie, Paeton, Ashton and Lincoln.
Haere mai ki te whanau o Te Pihi!

Welcome to our 3 new students who have recently joined our kura:
Iyana, Azayleah and Maringi.

We loved going to our health lessons in the Life Education Truck!

Sharee and Harold teaching us about friendship.

We learnt under a starry sky!

We are doing our 'must do' tasks at reading time.
Look how independent we are!

 

Baking ANZAC biscuits

ANZAC biscuits were baked by wives and womens' groups to send to the soldiers who went to war. They use ingredients that do not "spoil" easily and the biscuits kept well for the long journey on ships. We made ANZAC biscuits to remember the brave men and women who went to war. We all took turns to add the ingredients into the bowl and then stir them. 

Then we rolled the mixture into balls to make our own biscuit.

They tasted so yummy!

 

Easter celebrations on the last day of term 1!

Today we celebrated the last day of term 1 with an Easter Egg Hunt in the sensory garden for the junior classes. With our partner, we had to search for a tiny Easter egg each and a bunny. Each bunny had a letter on it. When we got back to the teachers, we had to make a sentence with all the letters that we found. Our sentence read: "Happy Easter to you!"

Off they go!

With their partners in the sensory garden.

Looking on the little playground.

Wyatt and Layla with their Easter eggs and bunny!

Happy . . .

Easter . . .

to . . .

you!