O le pepe - singalong

Show Day Ribbons

Ribbons at Show Day on PhotoPeach

Our Show Day Classroom

Getting ready for Show Day on PhotoPeach


The classroom is ready on PhotoPeach

A song from the Cook Islands

Mrs Haurua has been with our class for the last seven weeks, since the beginning of the term, and for the last three weeks, she has been the main teacher in the class.
While she has been with us, she has taught us a song from the Cook Islands. It is called Kua iti te marama. We have all been practising it and it has been quite a challenge to learn the words and the melody. Today we will be singing it at a special music assembly.
Sadly, Mrs Haurua is not able to be with us today, but she did make a video of the class singing the song, to share with her Cook Island family.

Winter Tree Paintings

Winter Tree Paintings on PhotoPeach

Winter Trees

Winter Trees on PhotoPeach
We have some beautiful oak trees in our school grounds and we have been looking at them as we think about the changes that happen each season.
Here are our pencil sketches of one of these oak trees.

Post Boxes

Post box

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We did a post box activity to get us thinking about what we know and what we don't know.
We had six questions.
What makes the seasons happen?
What do you know about the moon?
What do you know about the sun?
What causes daytime and night time?
What do you know about the tides?
What do you know about the seasons?
We had to read the question, write an answer and post it in the right box.
We had two goes at writing our ideas.
Today we sorted the answers and chose the 3 best ones from each box to share with the class.

Tashi and the Ghosts - our pastel resist pictures

We have been enjoying THE BIG BIG BIG BOOK OF TASHI by Anna & Barbara Fienberg & Kim Gamble each day over the last week or so.
These are some pictures we made about "Tashi and the Ghosts" and "Tashi and the White Tigers".
We made them using pastel and dye.
We have put instructions for making this kind of picture at the end of this post. We hope some people will try to follow our instructions.

Tashi, ghosts and white tiger stories on PhotoPeach



If you click on the comic strip, it will be big enough to read.

Measuring Teddies

We have been having some fun with our teddies in the last few weeks.
We measured them using beads in balance scales and also using bead strings.
Each teddy had a card with its measurements on, but we didn't know which teddy went with each card. So then we had to guess and check our measurements to find the mystery teddy.
Here is some of the work we did.
The app we used was Comic Strip. http://yourcomicstrip.com/

A VIsit From Fire Fighter Max

Firewise Visit on PhotoPeach