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.

Health (learning about healthy eating)

Learning about healthy kai with Whaea Gina:

Whaea Gina taught us about the four main food groups (fruits and vegetables, milk and milk products, grain foods, protein).

We learnt that it is important to eat a variety of foods and a variety of colours (e.g red - beetroot, yellow - corn).

Rainy day worm

Rainy Days

It is a very rainy day today. Litia found a huge worm before school. We took a photo for Litia's writing book and then we returned the worm back to the garden. We talked about why worms come out on rainy days.

Letter Work: M

Marshmallows!!

We have been learning about the letter Mm. We have learnt how to write the letter, read the letter and say the  sound the letter makes. To celebrate our learning we ate some marshmallows. 

Here are Sam, Sophie, Hayley, Freedom, Logan, Wynton, Litia, Hinemoana, Karaitiana, Anaya, Aria, Mahia, Aura-Jean, Michael, Eden and Jayden.

Letter Work: N (Noodles!!!)

We are learning about the letter Nn (recognising the letter, writing the letter and saying the sound the letter makes). On Friday we all tasted a selection of noodles. Here are Haijah, Litia, Wynton, Aria, Sam, Eden, Freedom, Jayden and Aura-Jean enjoying a warm cup of NOODLES.