Look at the amazing fluro vests we received from the Bikes in Schools people. These will help to keep us safe when we are out and about on our bikes! 

 

'Matariki' Biscuits

 

We know that Matariki is about sharing kai so we made biscuits showing the nine stars of Matariki. We had lots of fun making our biscuits! Some people must do lots of baking at home as they were a great help to those who haven't had a lot of experience. As we each had our own biscuit we were able to show the pattern of the Matariki stars in our own way - and we could eat them once we had finished our mahi - perfect!

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Our Matariki God's Eyes

One of our activities to celebrate Matariki this year was to make God's Eyes. Some of us had tried this year and were very keen to have another go. Could we remember how to weave these colourful patterns that we had experimented with last year? Yes we could - and this year they were even better! Everyone was super engaged and determined to complete their God's Eye. Some of us got a little frustrated to begin with when we couldn't keep our sticks in position, or we couldn't remember the weaving pattern. However with a lot of kia manawanui from our friends, and kia kaha that encouraged us not to give up, we all created our own unique and fantastic God's Eye! Some people were so keen they found themselves a long pair of sticks from the garden and worked on a second, even greater, God's Eye!

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Puppy Love!

 On Thursday, in the last week of Term Two, Hayley's mum brought their beautiful five week old, Pomeranian x Maltese puppies, in for us to have a cuddle with. I think we all would have taken one home in our pocket for the holidays if we were allowed! Have a look at our photos - here

Visit to the Envirocentre

On Thursday we visited the Envirocentre to find out more about what's happening to all our food packaging rubbish and to think of some alternatives to using plastic wrappers. Did you know that the rubbish from our homes is trucked out of Gisborne daily (five truck and trailor loads!) and carted away to be buried in a massive hole that has been dug out of the side of a mountain over in the Bay of Plenty?? Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, can't be feeling good about this and neither do we!

With the help of Kirsty and Steph we each made out own wax food wrapper to help us avoid creating extra rubbish from our lunchboxes. Many of us used them for our school lunch the next day. We love them because they keep our food contained and fresh - and they smell delicious!

Have a look at our photos - here 

The Creative Team!

 

I just love to see what these guys will come up with next..... My favourite is the 'broken heart'. Click here to see the short video clip.

Read and Grab!

Read and Grab is one of our new Structured Literacy games. The fabulous thing about this game is that we have got  a pack to suit every stage. It can be organised to work with all the letter sounds that we have been learning about so is a fun way to reinforce our learning! I think you can see from our faces how much fun we were having :)

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