Room 18 and Whaea Aggie

Today we celebrated Matariki with a special assembly. Te Whanau hosted the assembly. Whaea Rebecca ran a Matariki quizz and children won cool prizes. Room 17 made Matariki stars out of tin foil and decorated them.

After Matariki Room 18 and Whaea Aggie joined us and we sung some special Matariki songs in Te Reo. 

Matariki - Our First Ideas

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Matariki Week

This week we are celebrating Matariki. Every day we go to the hall and Whaea Rebecca leads us through some awesome Matariki activities.

In the afternoon we carried out a Science experiment to see if sound travels through a balloon. We learnt that because the air in a balloon is compressed the sound is louder. 

Mañawa Assembly and More

Mañawa hosted Fridays assembly. Annette from Room 15 and Caleb from Room 18 were our Mañawa hosts. All classes shared some great work from term two. 

Room 17 has been learning to say their mihi in preparation for school speeches. Kayne, Vichika, Zayyaan, Thai-La and Dante shared their mihi with the school. Kiti introduced them to the school.

In the afternoon Cathy came to talk to us about 'Sound'. Cathy is a hearing nurse, she is testing children's ears to make sure their ears are healthy. She talked to us about how we hear sounds and how to keep our ears healthy. She told us that is so important never to put anything in yours ears and that our ears clean themselves. You shouldn't ever use cotton buds to clean your ears because they can actually infect your ear drum.

Sock puppets

Today was Green Day and our challenge was to make sock puppets from recycled goods.Everybody brought in socks and decorations from home and we turned them into sock puppets. Tomorow we are going to write a humorous report about our puppets.