Have a great long weekend!

Buddy Class

When Room 5 visited Whanganui Museum they learnt how to make a small taonga puoro called a porotiti. They decided to share their learning with us. In pairs we used a template to cut the shape out of thick cardboard, then we drilled some small holes for the string, and finally we selected and drew some maori art designs on them. We really enjoyed making these with our buddy class.

 

BIG BOOKS

We love our Big Books!

We wrote postcards to Harry McFarr about his clunker car and told him what we liked about his story.

We became detective’s like Suzee Sing and used our spyglasses to explain who we thought was causing problems at the museum.

 

 

Gala Day

What an amazing day! We raised $13 000 for our school! Thank you so much for all your help and support. The Gala was a huge success and everyone had a fantastic time!

 

We are really enjoying our cricket lessons! Today we put the new skills we have learnt into practice and played a game of cricket. Boys against girls! We also received our free bats today!

 

Swimming Sports

What a fantastic afternoon for Swimming Sports! I am so proud of all your hard work in swimming this term, you have all improved so much. Well done Room 2!! Thanks to all the parents who came to support!

 

Today we had a visit from Manu from Te Manawa as part of our Maoritanga topic. He gave us further information about maraes and what roles people have on them. He also showed us lots of traditional Maori instruments and tools. It was fascinating to listen to them!! At the end he taught us a waiata.