Christmas Parade

 On Friday evening we were in the Paihia Christmas Parade. This year the theme was "under the canopy".

Te Awa were Tui. Thank you to Suzi and Harmony for making our costumes. Thank you to Mrs Smith and her amazing crew of parent helpers for making an amazing float. Thank you to Carters for lending us your truck and your driver. We all had lots of fun.

Lily-Belle tried on her costume during the day to see if it looked good.

Our wonderful parent and whanau helpers getting the truck ready.

4.30p.m costume time!

Michael and Marcus on the truck.

Grace, Marcus and Michael

Ripeka, Lily-Belle, Grace

Mr Ngata was dressed as a giant tree.

Nga Motu were the green geckos.

Te Ngahere students.

Melody

We say Spiderman!

A very big "Thank you" to Pauline Fox for making delicious gingerbread men for us all. Reti liked his.

Christmas Tree

 We have been given a beautiful Christmas tree ("thank you Charlie Witts!"). We have been making decorations for our tree and singing Christmas songs.

Aotearoa Christmas  Our favourite Christmas song.

Athletics Day (special bus driver)

Last Friday we had a very special bus driver to take us to Bledisloe Domain for our Athletics day. It was Marcus' Papa Mr Perry Clark. 

Marcus and his Papa

Lily-Belle, Marcus and Ripeka (with a photo bomber!).

Maia T.H and Grace

Nevaeh at discus throwing

Lily-Belle at discus throwing

Lego maths

Today we did "brick club" work. We worked in groups of three. One person was the engineer, one person was the supplier and one person was the builder. We had to use lots of maths language to describe each lego piece and where it needed to go.

Science (the water cycle)

 We have been learning about rain clouds and the water cycle.

The earth's water cycle pulls water from the ground, rivers, oceans, lakes, and streams up into the sky. This is called evaporation. When the clouds become too heavy or full, and when other things happen with the wind and air in the atmosphere, gravity causes the rain to fall from the sky.

Our Cloud Experiment