Matariki Day

Matariki Day

Today we had a lovely Matariki Day at Paihia School. 
George, Elias, Kenzie, Kaura and John-William came to school at 6 o'clock in the morning with their families. We all walked to the beach to see the Matariki stars.

 Elias

 John-William

 Waiting for our delicious breakfast.

John-William and Kenzie

 Stephen's Mum (Pauline) made beautiful star cookies for us. Thank you Pauline! 

Missy came to school to show us her amazing weaving and to teach us how to weave Matarki stars.

Reign

 After morning tea we played fun games. We were in teams with other kids from other classes.

 Kenzie, Cora-Rose, Ohana and Haijah

Will

 Stephen at the gumboot throwing game.

 George was playing a chasing game.

 Amaira's Dad brought us some delicious kai for lunch. We learnt they celebrate Matariki in India. Thank you Vikas!

 Kenzie, Ohana and Matiu loved the delicious potato curry and Indian bread.

 Missy teaching us to make our paper stars.

 Missy's amazing weaving.

 Nikau

 Vincent

 Missy teaching Amaira. Some kids from Te Maunga helped us make our stars.

 Teah helped Elias and Stephen.

 Our stars.

Reign with his star

Missy helped Elias make his star.

Social Studies/Inquiry (cultures)

We are learning about other cultures in Te Awa. Today Elias' Mum Shalini came to teach us how to make authentic Italian Pizza. Shalini is from a town in Italy called Gemona. It is in the North of Italy.
Thank you so much for your time Shalini.

 A map of Italy.

 Shalini is from a town called Gemona.

The Italian flag.

Shalini

We wrote pizza for our word work.

George

Reign

Nikau

I had three pizzas. It was yummy.
By Elias

Elias' Mum made pizza. The pizza was delicious.
By Stephen

I like sharing my pizza and cake with my friends.
By John-William

Elias is from Gemona. And Elias' Mum is from Gemona. Gemona is in Italy.
By Reign

I loved the pizza because it was yummy. The pizza was so yummy that I put it in my lunchbox for Riley. I think Riley will love it.

By Kenzie

The pizza was yummy because Shalini is from Italy.

By Kaura

I liked the pizza because it was delicious and it was a good pizza. Elias' Mum is from Italy.

By George

Italian Pizza Recipe

350 g of plain flour

1 tsp salt

a swirl of olive oil

210 ml of warm water

2 tsp yeast

2 tsp sugar

oregano

one can of diced tomatoes

mozzarella cheese (grated)

choice of toppings (ham, chorizo, olives)

Mix the flour and salt.

Mix the warm water, yeast and sugar.

Mix the yeast mixture with the flour mixture.

Place in a bowl with a tea towel over it.

Put the bowl in an oven at 50 degrees for 1 and a 1/2 hours or 2 hours (to rise).

When the pizza dough has risen, place in deep dishes (with a generous swirl of olive oil on base of dish).

Add tomatoes, oregano and cheese.

Place in an oven for 10 minutes at 220 degrees.

After 10 minutes add the other topping and place back in the oven for a further 10 minutes.

Enjoy!!!

Thank you Igor and Shalini

Open Day

On Friday we had an open day at Paihia School. In Te Awa we were lucky to have lots of parents and whanau come and join us and help us with our learning. Thank you to all who came. Please remember that you are always welcome to join us in Te Awa.

 Penny (George's Mum)

 Karen (Kenzie's Mum)

 Ty-Ray (Kenzie's Dad)

 Kathleen (Matiu's Nana)

 Honey (Kaura's Nan)

Mike and Pauline (Stephen's Mum and Dad)

Science (our praying mantis)

Today we decided to release our praying mantis. She has lived in our classroom since the start of the year. We have learnt that she is a South African praying mantis. We saw her eat another praying mantis and we learnt that she will only eat live things. We had to do some research to find out what else she eats.

"Hungry young praying mantis nymphs ravenously eat aphids and the eggs of caterpillars. ... Adults also eat shield - or stink - bugs, flies, mosquitoes and cockroaches."

 Phoenix is our specialist insect person.