Poem work

This week we have been learning the poem "Nanny weaves flax" We did out own weaving with coloured paper. 

R.J, Maia and Lorelle

Reti, Avy and Ethan

Grace

Science (our school creek)

Science 

As part of our learning about where we are and our local environment we are studying our school creek. 

We have started by making a survey of the things we notice about our creek. 

Here are our findings so far.

Date 21st May

How many pieces of rubbish?  20

How many eels? 0

How many ducks? 0

How deep was the water (under the school bridge)? 35mm

What did the water look like? clear

There are a lot of weeds growing by our creek. We will think of a plan to get rid of them.

The water is surprisingly clear. It just looks brown because of the mud at the bottom.

Thank you Mikaire from Te Ngahere class for helping us get a water sample and measure the depth.

Happy Mother's Day

We hope everyone enjoyed their cards and the fudge on Mother's Day.

My apologies for the fudge. We used a new recipe and it did not look good, but we taste tested it to make sure it tasted ok 👍

Making our Mother's Day cards.

Eva-Rose and Mason

R.J

Michael

Grace

Harry

Avy and Mason

Sonny and Reti

Mixing the fudge mixture (chocolate chips and condensed milk). We had high hopes😆

"HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!"

Learning about the letter i

This week we have really enjoyed reading the "The Giant's ice cream" by New Zealand author Jill Eggleton. We did so well at learning the words of our story. So today we decided to have an "ice cream party!"

The Giant's ice cream

We had three flavours to choose. Orange chocolate chip, strawberry ripple and goody, goody gumdrop.

Altayvia tried all three flavours.

Michael tried all three flavours.

Mason had Goody, goody gumdrop. Then he tried strawberry ripple. He said it was a bit "spicy".

Well done for trying new things Mason.

Honour loved orange chocolate chip.

Fraser and Freezharn tried all three flavours.

Grace liked orange chocolate chip and goody, goody gumdrop. Avy liked goody, goody gumdrop.

Reti loved all of the flavours.

Sonny tried all of the flavours.

Mason

Freezharn

Sonny had lots of helpings.

We wondered if we were getting bigger like the giant in the story.

Maia made a new flavour.

Avy 

In the story, the Giant ate so much ice cream, he got stuck in the doorway. Freezharn checked he could still get through.

For homework we had to complete a family survey about the favourite ice cream flavours of our whanau. Here is Michaels' survey.

Eva-Rose's survey.

Maia's survey

Happy Easter

We hope everyone has had a lovely Easter!

To celebrate Easter in Te Awa we had an Easter egg hunt and made Easter baskets. We were also very lucky and received hot, buttered hot crossed buns from the Rasmey whanau (from their bakery in town). THANK YOU, THEY WERE DELICIOUS!

For our Easter egg hunt we had to find wooden blocks in the playground. The first letter of our name was written on the blocks. When we found a letter that wasn't our own we had to work out who's letter it was. We had a lot of fun. Some students took their letter blocks home for safe keeping :)

Hot Crossed buns, YUM!