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!