Matariki

Last week we celebrated Matariki.

 After walking to the beach just after 6am it was back to school for breakfast. Unfortunately there was too much cloud for us to see Matariki this year.

We enjoyed making stars and kites.

For our shared lunch we made a delicious healthy quiche.

Everyone brought along other yummy food to share too.

 

After lunch we had great fun flying the kites that we had made.

 

Our Matariki day finished with a great show. You can see by our faces that we loved it!

             

Bird Beaks Investigation

We investigated how birds eat different foods. We had to select which tools were the most suitable to pick up seeds, worms, meat and insects. Mrs Cates our trainee teacher had rice for the seeds, some nuts, marshmallows on string for the meat and snake lollies for the worms. We then looked at different shaped bird beaks and how they are used.

Geometry

This term we are lucky to have Mrs Cates with us for eight weeks. Mrs Cates is a trainee teacher. She has been doing Geometry with us. We have been learning to name and describe 2D and 3D shapes.

Today we had a lot of fun making these 2D & 3D shapes.

 

 

 






                               

Our Bush Walk

We are learning about our New Zealand Native bush. Last week we walked the Paihia lookout walk which begins at the end of School Road.

Here is some writing we did after the walk.

As we entered the bush it was fantastic. We saw lots of awesome trees. I heard a tui swooping through the trees. It landed on a branch. I saw lots of native trees. One of the trees was a lancewood. There were lots of epiphytes  growing high in the tallest trees. There were lots of five finger trees. The tallest trees were spreading above us.

                 AJ
I walked on the  track. I saw a tui. I saw some epiphytes growing on other trees.

                  Vaughan

We saw birds in bushes. People at the back were noisy and made the birds fly away. We saw epiphytes growing on other trees.We walked up  some stairs. Finally we made it to the  top.

                              Kaitlin

Room 2 and Room 3 walked in the native bush.  We saw some lancewood. Mum and I saw a kereru. We saw a prickly totara tree. I looked at the canopy first then the bush floor.

           Nikara

I saw some native trees in the forest. I saw some fantails in the  bush. I saw some epiphytes on another tree.

         Dale

      

 

We walked into the bush and I saw lots of different trees. As we walked further I started to run. I saw a lancewood and some epiphytes too. I stopped at the top. It was awesome.

            Zara

On Wednesday we all walked to the lookout at the top of a hill. We all found different trees. Some had epiphytes growing on them. I saw rimu. They were bigger than my Dad. As we stepped up the stairs we saw lots of trees. There were big and small fungi on a log. There was a stream  by the path with stones in it.

   Franky

 

We saw some native trees. We saw epiphytes and totara trees. We saw ferns in the bush. We walked up the hill.

             Mere

We walked along the track. I saw lancewood trees. I also saw plants growing on another tree. I saw a vine and Mrs Davies took a photo of it.

        Alizae

We walked in the bush. I saw some trees in the forest. Some trees had prickly leaves. We saw some vines hanging down.

                     Mark

On Wednesday Room 2 and 3 walked up in the bush. We saw a kereru flying around . The trees canopy spread across the sky. We saw some piwakawaka. Our voices were scaring the birds away. We saw some rimu and silver ferns.

                Gail

 

           

Autumn

         This week we have talked and written about Autumn

           Autumn

Leaves tumbling from the trees

Red, gold, orange, yellow, brown.

Bare trees 

Piles of leaves to jump in                                 

Crunching under my feet.

                  Zara

                 Autumn

The leaves are falling off trees

Red, orange, yellow, gold and brown.

They are tumbling down onto the ground

Making piles for children to play in.

Bare trees have no leaves.

                          Breeze

    Autumn

Long nights, shorter days

Leaves changing colour

Yellow, red, orange, gold, brown.

Tumbling leaves

Spinning to the ground

Leaves making piles for the children to play in.        

                     AJ

    

                    Autumn

I like the leaves falling because I can jump in them.

Orange, yellow and gold leaves crumbling under my feet,

Making a mat on the grass.

           Angela

                            Autumn

The trees are losing their leaves

Leaves are falling

They are changing colour

Yellow, crimson, gold, red, orange.

We jump in them,

People have to rake them up.

                         Franky                                                         

      Autumn

The leaves are falling off the trees

The leaves are red, orange, yellow and brown.

I jump in the leaves.

It gets cold. People start to wear scarves and beanies.

              Jahrell

     Autumn
Leaves falling down
Red, orange, yellow and brown.
The leaves make a carpet.
Children  jump in the leaves,
The leaves are crunching under my feet.
                         Kaitlin
                  
                              Autumn

The leaves are falling off the trees
Red and orange
Spinning to the ground.
             Vaughan

Anzac Day

We learned about World War 1. Mrs Davies read us the story about Simpson and his donkey.

Jack Simpson was  a famous Australian soldier. He carried wounded soldiers on his donkey. He rescued over 300 men at Gallipoli before sadly being killed himself.

We compared the food we eat in a day for breakfast, lunch and dinner with the food the soldiers had to eat. They ate bully beef and hard biscuits.

Every class put together some crosses, which we put altogether to remember the people who lost their lives in World War 1.

            

We made some delicious Anzac biscuits.

                            

Here is the recipe if you would like to make some.

Ingredients
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup desiccated coconut
125 grams butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Steps
1. Mix together the oats, flour, sugar and coconut in a bowl.
2. Mix the butter, golden syrup and water in a saucepan over a medium heat. (We did it in the microwave instead.
3.Once the butter has melted, stir in the bicarbonate of soda.
4. Pour the heated mixture into the bowl with the dry ingredients and mix well.
5. Put teaspoons of the mixture onto a greased oven tray or a tray lined with baking paper.
6. Cook in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for  about 15 minutes.
7. Once golden, leave them to cool. Then ENJOY!

Maths

In Geometry this term we are learning to sort, compare and group shapes. We are also learning to describe shapes.

Joshua, Franky and Mere took an i pad each outside and took these photos of different shapes they could find in our school.