Reading/Creating

Freedom, Karaitiana and Mahia have been reading the book "The Boat".
After we read the book, we created boats like the boats in the book. We used cardboard boxes, string and coloured paper.

Stevie-Ray from Te Tahuna class helped us. Here he is with Mahia.

 Stevie-Ray, Freedom and Karaitiana

A finished boat.

Mahia and our "The boat" book.

Freedom and our "The boat" book.

Music: Ukulele Lessons

Ukulele Lessons
This week our whole school started learning to play the ukulele. Our teacher is Alison. We have got 30 beautiful, bright ukulele's to share. 

                                          George, Cooper, Anaya.

                                           Litia and George.

                                          Linkin, Aria and Mahia.

                                          Our Teacher Alison.

                                          Freedom

Matariki Planting

Matariki Planting
To celebrate Matariki we planted some new plants and flowers in our garden. We planted strawberries, beans, spinach, potatoes and flowers. Hopefully we will get to eat some of the produce later this year.

                          Sophie and our gardening equipment.

Hayley, Sophie and Karaitiana.

                            Wynton, Jayden and Sam.

                            Anaya, Hinemoana and Aura-Jean.

                            Aria, Litia and Michael.

                            Mahia, Dallas, Karaitiana and Wynton.

                           Michael, Eden, Litia, Aria and Jayden.

Art: Matariki Stars

Matariki Stars
To celebrate Matariki this year we made stars. First we dyed our background paper and then we decorated stars with black pens.

Aria

                                                                  Anaya

                                                                Jayden

                                                               Karaitiana

                                                                  Litia

                                                               Mahia

Wynton

Hiwi the Kiwi show

The Minstrel and his wife came to our school last week to teach us about  staying safe when we go fishing and how to care for Te Moana

We learnt to wear a life jacket and everyone needs to wear a life jacket.

By Eden

I liked dancing because it was fun. I learnt about fish.

By Hayley

Wash your fish with sea water.

By Litia

I like to put fish in icy water, to keep them fresh. I liked the dancing at the show and it was fun.

By Hinemoana

I like my fishing rod. I like fish. I like to catch fish.

By Dallas

You have to pick up fish with a wet towel. You have to put sea water and salty ice on sea fish.

By Jayden

  

Matariki trip to the Treaty Grounds

The lovely people who work at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds invited us to take part in their Matariki learning week.

Freedom and Karaitiana after we had learnt about our beautiful waka (Ngatokimatawhaorua).

Whaea Shari teaching us about how to plant native trees.

Freedom

There are signs in the bush to show us the planting Paihia School pupils have done each year.

This year's Paihia School sign.

It was a beautiful, sunny day.

Singing our waiata after our shared kai.