An albatross can have a 3m wingspan!

Our friend Donny has been sharing stories and poems with us in Rimu class this term. He has managed to find some fantastic texts to share based around our class inquiry unit of The Ocean. On Thursday he bought us a book about the albatross, and even measured out the 3m to show us how big their wing span can get to. So much great learning for us, thank you Donny.

Week two award winners

Congratulations to this week's deserving award winners from Rimu class, Niko, Benjamin and Lilly. Getting to celebrate continued effort, great attitudes and achievements is one of my favourite parts of teaching. Tino Pai tamariki!

Ki o rahi with Whaea Gina

The tamariki are getting much more confident with our Ki o rahi game this term. Whaea Gina does a great job of ensuring we all get to participate and learn. Today we decided it would be best to remove our shoes and play barefoot due to a little mud on the field.

Manaiakalani lessons with Whaea Donna

Whaea Donna comes to visit us each Friday to help us learn about using our iPads to enhance our classroom learning. Today we learnt about writing code and turning our friends into robots to follow our codes. Our new vocab ftom this lesson includes Avatar, Coder, Algorithm and Debugger!

Donny reading for Rimu class

One of our senior students has been coming to read to us each day after our phonics lesson. It's great to be able to share our reading with a variety of people in a variety of ways and the tamariki have been enjoying having Donny read to us as much as he has enjoyed doing the reading too!

Sports Northland

This morning Gina from Sports Northland came to help us practice the game we have been learning called Ki o rahi. Lots of different skills being practiced in the different roles of kaitiaki, taniwha and ki oma.

Kiwi can - integrity

Working with Jess and Ange to learn about integrity over the next two weeks. Today's catch phrase was 'honesty is the way to be just try it out and you will see'