Dinosaur Detectives

Talofa lava bloggers!

We hope everyone has had a great start to the term - we sure have!

This week our reading group read a book called Dinosaur Detectives. One of the chapters was about how fossils are made and how to find them. Once we finished reading about fossils we had a go at searching for them ourselves!

Here are some pictures of our excavation efforts.

Blog yah later,

Layla, Rehmatullah, Renesmee, Malia and Krisha
Ngā Honu reading group

Little Garden League

Nĭ hăo bloggers!

Over the last three weeks we have been working away, growing vegetables and herbs, as new members of the Little Garden League!

After a rigorous application process, we were accepted into the club and given our mission - Grow, Protect, TATSTE! Our plants haven't grown quite big enough to eat just yet but we've got the grow and protect parts down pat! 😎

Are you guys a part of the Little Garden League as well? We'd love to hear from some fellow members.

Here are some photos of us planting our seeds, playing Veggie Patch Match, cracking the secret codes and preparing a patch in our school garden, where we will replant our seedlings once they're ready.

A big thank you to our caretaker, Mr Brody, for all of his help. 😊

Shake, Rattle and Roll!

Kia ora bloggers!

As you know, this term we have been learning all about natural disasters. Most recently we've been focussing on earthquakes. As a part of this new learning we took on the challenge of building an earthquake proof tower using only marshmallows and dry spaghetti!

The aim was to build the tallest possible free-standing tower that could withstand Miss Nodder's earthquakes (shaking and bumping the tables 😆).

It was quite a tricky (and messy) challenge but we had lots of great discussions about possible ways to construct the tower and build a strong enough foundation to support the weight of our materials.

Check us out, working as a team!

The Floor is Lava!

On Monday we wrote about volcanoes and it was all about what we knew about volcanoes. We described what a volcanic eruption is like. We all had to use fun, exciting words not boring words.

It was fun because every single volcano picture was amazing and we tried our best.

It was hard to think  of interesting words.

Our next steps are to publish our lovely writing and hang it up and maybe it can go in the newsletter.

Cook Islands Language Week

Kia orāna bloggers!

Pe'ea 'ua koe?

We hope you've all had a great week learning about and celebrating Cook Islands Language Week.

Here in Harris Class we learnt how to say some common phrases in Cook Islands Māori and we focussed this week's art on the tiare flower, which is the national flower of the Cook Islands. We also hosted a whole school assembly to celebrate all of the wonderful learning that has been going on in our school.

What did you learn about the Cook Islands this week?

Happy Matariki!

Kia ora bloggers!

Check out some of the Matariki art that we completed at the end of Term 2. We're very proud of our efforts and really enjoyed learning about the Māori New Year.

What did your class do to mark this special time of the year?

 These artworks were inspired by the story The Little Kiwi's Matariki.

We were lucky enough to have the fabulous Mrs B in our class while Miss Nodder was away for a few days. We made our very own Matariki stars and did some weaving too.

Amazing Animations!

Kia ora bloggers!

We were inspired by our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu buddies at Makauri School. Check out their awesome animations on their blog.

So we decided to make our own animations using Explain Everything.

Here is Rayyan's...




And here is Krisha's




What do you like about our animations? Is there anything you think we could improve on?