Mrs. Saxon

Mrs. Saxon is our teacher this week.

Ginger Beer

In science we are learning about chemical reactions by making ginger beer.

Different ingredients can cause different reations.We learnt that yeast causes a reaction called fermentation.

This is Mr. Georges special lemon squeezer.

Te Awhina Marae

Last Thursday we went to Te Awhina Marae. It was so cool. It is a living Marae. People live there. The hall is still used by the community. With the support of the community and churches of Motueka, they looked after lots of Christchurch earthquake victims. They help local teenagers and teach them to carve.

The bit about the church was the best bit that I liked because of the good carving. By Grace

The bit I liked best about the church was the bell on the top of the church. By Jessica

When we went to the marae I liked the kai. Why I liked it is because there was chips and crackers and chocolate muffins and other food. By Misha.
I like the hangi pit because I like the food we can put in there. By Seth

Dear Te Awhina Marae.
Thank you for all the kai what you did for us and for teaching us about the octopus and the dolphin. I loved it. By Abbey G

The best part was the carving. I like the carving. It was interesting. By Bradley
When we went to the marae I liked the carving and the reason I liked the carving was the patterns. By Timoci

Our Chicks

Our chicks hatched. They are cool. There are four of them. There is one called blackbird. He is my favorite. He is black. there are two yellow ones and one brown one. He was the first to hatch.

By Jye

Goodbye Riley

Riley is moving to Christchurch. Friday is her last day so we will all bring something to share for morning tea.

We will really miss you Riley. God bless you. Have fun at your new school. 

Hatching Eggs

The Martin family have bought special eggs lent us an incubator.

We read a book that had pictures of the different stages of development of the chick while still in the egg.  We learnt that the eggs have to be kept a little bit wet as well as warm.

Abbey N says "It will take 21 days for our eggs to hatch. We won't open the incubator."

One mum's good idea

"I wrote numbers on scraps of paper. My children and I skip counted forward and backwards in two's. We jumped on the number as we said it. The ACTION of jumping and forward and backwards really helped them to remeber it well"

If you have good learning ideas that you would like to share, post a comment or tell us at school!