Learning about Matariki

 We have begun our learning about Matariki.

On Friday we started to learn about the nine Matariki stars, we made star collages and we made manu tukutuku (kites).

Welcoming our pre-enrolled and preschool 4 year old friends.

 Rūma Whio and Rūma Kererū had a lovely afternoon of shared kai and play with some friends from preschool and some new pre-enrolled four year old friends.

Check out our amazing new space.

 

Pork Pie Run 2023

We had some speedy visitors at kura on Monday. The Pork Pie Run for 2023 visited our school.

Check out their website for more information on their journey.

Google My Map - Poutini and Waitaiki

 The class made a My Map to show the journey of Poutini and Waitaiki. We used places that the children recognised as landmarks to engage them in the journey. We used Google Earth to explore each place.

Pepe reme - Baby lamb

We had an unexpected visitor to Rūma Whio today, Cookie the baby lamb. The tamariki were so surprised, it was very exciting.

Sunny weather word work.

 The weather was so nice today, we decided to do our word work outside. Ka pai tō mahi Rūma Whio.

He pai te ora, life is good in the sun!

Spying for sentences.

Rūma Whio used our googly eye finger puppets to look for sentences in their own writing books. The puppets were looking for capital letters and full stops in the correct places. They were also looking for spaces between words.

Buzzing in Rūma Kererū.

Phoenix's dad brought his bees for a visit. Rūma Whio and Rūma Kererū learnt lots about bees and how they are really important for our environment.  We were lucky enough to try some honey fresh from the honeycomb!

Daffodil Day

 What a lovely sunny day. Kei te whiti te rā, the sun is shining as our tamariki enjoy some Te rā daffodil activities.

2D shape

 Our focus in maths this week is 2d shape. Yesterday we started by making huge shapes on the mat using a rope. 

Apples

 Rūma Whio went to look at the apples trees at school. We counted how many apples.

When we got back to class we used our fingers to paint apple pictures. Here they are displayed in our class art gallery.

 

Scooter Day

 Here are some pictures of our Scooter Safari Day Adventures.

We spent the day exploring and learning about the Scooter Safari. We used paper, crayons and construction equipment to make our own versions of the journey over the mountains.