Guzzler Does the Job

Troy and Ocean have been reading some SPCA books this Term.  they really enjoyed the story about an orphaned wild pig called Guzzler Does the Job.

Patterns

Zach has made a pattern and is describing it using shape names.  What other ways could he describe his pattern?

Rebecca's Life jacket presentation

Rebecca has been reading Junior Journal 54.  Through her multi-modal site, she found information about lifejackets and then decided to present what she found on google slides.

The Impossible Bridge

The Koalas reading group have been learning about bridges on their multi-modal site before they read the book 'The Impossible Bridge'.  Ocean and Troy both made a bridge....

Our star the Sun

We have been learning about the Sun and how it affects night and day.  Stella and Rebecca were interested to find out that the Earth spins and the Sun's light creates daytime and night-time depending on which part of the Earth it is shining on.

Introducing Room 7...

Room 7 are very excited about being part of Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu and we hope you enjoy finding out a bit about us.










Our Year 1 and 2's with their introduction posters...

Our Matariki Feast

We really enjoyed reading Daniel's Matariki Feast and the discussions we had around how we celebrate special occasions with family and friends. 

Paparoa Range were lucky enough to have our own Matariki feast at Blackball site and spent the afternoon making stars and poi while we waited for the food to cook.

Mr Maunder checking to see if the kai is cooked.

The cooked food ready to be served.

Shantytown visit

Room 7 have been getting ready for Matariki and our school hangi.  Last Friday Rooms 2 and 7 visited Shantytown and took part in their Matariki programme.  Here are some photos of what we did...

Flying our Matariki kites.

Nanny Lucy demonstrating how to use poi.

Cheyenne and Elijah (our oldest Room 2 student and youngest Room 7 student) planting Paparoa Range's ti kouka in Shantytown's new bush clearing.  We can't wait to  come back and see how much our tree has grown!

Tens frames

The Pentagons group have been learning about tens frames.  We know a tens frame has ten spaces but they are really hard to draw!  You can see our hard mahi in our maths books.  Can you see our best attempts?

Noah's Ark

Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the ark. How many creatures could he have seen?

Here are some of our answers...