On Wednesday we saw an AWESOME show by the Kahurangi Dance Theatre. This group travels around New Zealand (and the world!) sharing Maori taonga (treasures) through waiata and dance. They were very talented and we loved the show.  Our favourite part was when Cody, Reuben and Mr Ricketts had to get on stage, be a Maori warrior and show their taiaha technique! It was a fantastic show!

 

Te Reo

 

We had a great Buddy Class on Friday! We did a ‘trust walk’ through a very tricky course! Our big buddies lead us through the course first…blindfolded!! It was then our turn to lead them. We had to give them very good instructions so they didn’t bump their heads!

We have been using the ‘Thinking Hats’ to help us organise our thinking. Today we used the Red Hat for feelings, Yellow Hat for good points, Black Hat for bad points, Green Hat for new ideas. We were discussing what we thought about people throwing their rubbish out of car windows.

 

What an awesome day we had on Friday for Wheels Day! It was such a fun afternoon scootering around the school. The course went all the way around the school and into the carpark. Thank you Student Council for organising this wonderful day!

 

 

Garden

Oh no!! We went to go and water and weed our garden and we noticed something had got in and was eating our plants! We decided to put up a net to keep it out!

 

This term we are learning about our environment. We are asking the big question of “How can we help our Environment?” After watching a short video clip of ‘The Great Garbage Patch’ we felt mad, sad and angry that there is so much rubbish in the ocean, more than on land! We made Tellagami’s on the Ipad’s to express ourselves. Here are a few!

 

Class Garden

We re - planted our garden today with broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. We are looking forward to watching it grow and eating it at the end of the term!

Click here to support our children in the 4O Hour Famine

https://www.worldvision.org.nz/Portal/famine/default.aspx 

Spots and Stripes Day!

Thanks for an awesome day student council! We loved dressing up in Spots and Stripes and having a yummy lunch!