Ko te aha tenei ra?

We have been learning about te wiki o te reo māori.

We are asking and answering questions like these. 

Ko te aha tenei ra?               What day is it today?
Ko Rāapa tenei ra.                   Today is Wednesday.

Ko te aha te ra apopo?           What day is it tomorrow?
Ko Rāapre te ra apopo.              Tomorrow is Thursday.

We are beginning to say these phrases.

Ko te aha tenei ra?     

Ko _______ tenei ra.

Ko te aha te ra inanahi?

What was the day yesterday?

Ko ________ te ra inanahi.

Yesterday was _________.

Ko te aha te ra apopo?

What will the day be tomorrow?

Ko ________ te ra apopo.

Tomorrow will be ________.

Cross Country

 
Yesterday the whole school ran the cross country. 

At the starting line when they said go you had to run as fast as you could. Some of us fell over and we got back up again and carried on with our race.  The first six runners to finish, had a photo at the end together.

Some kids from Peachgrove Intermediate School came to cheer us on and be marshals around the course. They helped encourage us to keep running and trying our best! They were very kind and some of them ran with the Year 0's.







Our parents, aunties, uncles, grandparents, siblings and cousins all came to watch us race. 


We trained hard and are very proud of our results. We were tired after our races. Thank you for coming to support us. 

 









The first three for each race will get certificates in Positive Assembly in week 6- 31st of August. 

Sketching

Pukatea Planting

It was Hine's birthday last week and the Rennie family kindly gifted her a Pukatea tree to plant on the nature trail. We have been doing a lot of work on the nature trail and are becoming experts at caring for it. 

We researched information with Sonja's help about where the best place to plant it in the gully would be. We had a plant guide to see what could grow well around it too. We took the tree to Putikitiki and planted it near the bottom of the gully. Did you know it can grow up to 40 metres tall! We talked about how many Hine's that would be! 

Can you see it when you are on Putikitiki?

Opening Tōtara Block

We have been working in our new classes all term and they were blessed before we started back. 

Today was our special opening to show everyone what awesome spaces we have and to officially open our classes. We had many special guests and families come to see our new learning spaces. Kapa Haka welcomed them down to where we were sitting on the cobbles at middle flat. 

Pippa greeted the visitors.

Kapa Haka performed again.

We planted a special tree in the garden by the top of Putikitiki. 

We proudly showed the visitors our classrooms spaces.

Have you been in our classrooms? What did you like about them?