Sunday, May 23, 2021

Pink Day!

!Learning through play







Great designing and team work!

Thinking and creating!

We are speaking up and standing together against bullying!


Play dough creativity! Symbols from the school pou pou.

Aali has created a maunga - "Ko Puwheke te maunga."Puwheke is the maunga on our pou about the east coast.

Mila created a kuaka. We are learning about the godwit and it's migration to Alaska each year to breed. The sea birds then fly all the way back to our east coast bays to rest and grow plump, ready to fly back to Alaska again in autumn.


Brax created chief Tohe's club. Tohe is on our pou.


Look at what Patrick created. He has made a fish. Ika are plentiful on Ninety Mile Beach. 


Alex


Alex and Tairua have created a club foot. Tohe's youngest son was born with a club foot. He was killed in battle and Tohe was very very sad. On our eastern pou Tohe has a club [mere]. On the club is a small carving of his son.                                   

Sophie created ra [the sun], which rises in the east and sets in the west.



We are enjoying learning about the meanings of the different carvings on our Paparore school pou pou. 

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Friday, May 21, 2021

Healthy Lunches!

We are very lucky to have yummy, healthy, free lunches delivered to our school every day. We are trying new foods and discovering new tastes.













We wrote to Libelle [the catering company] and Jacinda Adern to thank them for the lunches. 

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Five little speckled frogs!

Mrs Brydon taught in our class for the day. She introduced us to a new math's song called, 'Five little speckled frogs.' We had lots of fun being frogs and doing 'frog maths.'














We were learning about subtraction. When we take away 1 the number is 1 less. Watch the video and sing along. Get some sticks and leaves from the garden and make a pretend pond. Draw and cut out 5 speckled frogs. Have fun!


Friday, May 14, 2021

Term 2 has begun!

 Meet our larger Te Kakano class! Sunny days and smiling faces!

Here we are outside enjoying the lovely sunshine!

We extend a big welcome to our new students and their whanau. 

Tena koe Alex!

Kia ora Roimata!

Tena koe Lykan!

Kia ora Shelby!

Tena koe R. J.