A butterfly in our classroom

In the weekend we had a butterfly hatch in our classroom. We put it in the garden.

Can the butterfly fly?
By Karceya

I saw a butterfly in our classroom.
By Ollie T

I went to see the butterfly. It hatched in our classroom. Miss Simmonds let it go in the garden.
By Hayley

I saw a butterfly and it was cool.
By Indie M

Greedy Cat Cake

On Friday we made a "Greedy Cat Cake" in Te Awa.

We got the idea from an illustration in a Greedy Cat book (The new cat). We tried to make our cake look like the one in the book.

 Ingredients

 Equipment

 Karceya measuring the flour.

 Steven measuring the cocoa powder.

Indy H stirring the ingredients.

 Indie M measuring the sugar.

 Nova measuring the sugar.

 Mason measuring the baking soda.

 Marcus stirring the mixture.

 Oliver H measuring the water.

 Fletcher pouring the water.

 Nevaeh measuring the vanilla.

 Sienna mixing the ingredients.

 Nicky and Fletcher.

 Nicky mixing the ingredients.

 Fletcher decorating the cake with raspberries.

 Nevaeh

 Fletcher

 Olivia, Nova, Indie M and Maia

Oliver H

Reading in Te Awa

Te Awa has started with their daily reading programme REALLY well !!!

 Every day we re-read the books in our book bag at the start of our reading programme.

Our new students are already doing a great job of looking after their books and reading diaries and book bags.

 Nova doing some fabulous reading in class.

 Our reading chart tells us what we are learning and doing at reading time.

 Our reading diaries tell our whanau what books we need to read each day for homework.

 Olivia is doing a great job of pointing to each word as she reads.

 Steven is doing a great job of pointing to each word when he reads.

Sienna and Nevaeh have only been at school for three days and are already doing great reading.

The Paihia Christmas Parade

On Friday Paihia School's students participated in the annual Christmas Parade. This year the theme was Dr Seuss and recycling. We were "The Lorax".
Our class (Te Awa) dressed as teddy bears from the book. Thank you to Pam (our amazing Teacher Aide) for making the costumes and to Pauline Fox for help with providing T.shirts, face paint, head bands and delicious cookies.

 Maritina brought her favourite Teddy Bear to be part of the parade.

 Rayza and Tu-Kotahi

 Rayza

 Matiu

 Sophie and Amaira

 Olivia and Pippa

 Pippa

 Te Moana class were on the truck with us, they were amazing in their orange fish costumes.

 Pippa

 The Paihia Early Childhood Centre looks fabulous. We got to say "hi" to our friends and Donna when our truck went past their truck.