Fergus's Fire Truck

When I was young I had a massive truck. When I drove it down the hallway I pressed the buttons. 'NEE NAH! NEE NAH!' it went. I liked scaring Mum when it went 'Wee ol wee ol!' My brother's friend came to play. He played with it the whole time while I played with my dump truck. Then he asked if he could borrow my truck. I said "Yes, but bring it back next time." But one day he was doing what I do, driving it. He drove it too far on a windy day and he said "Oh no!" Bang! Bang! and he crushed the front. His dad rang my dad up and they talked about it. My dad told me the whole thing. I felt sad.

T22 Park Detectives

VWhat a fantastic trip to the gardens today! We learnt so much about some of our native birds, their foods and the trees they live in. What a great place our gardens are to visit and learn in!

T24 Park Detective Trip today

What a fantastic morning we had today! Was so lovely to get out of the classroom and see the children immersed in nature and the birdlife around them. We even had a Kereru perched above us in a tree for a while! The children had a range of activities to complete including searching for insects with magnifying glasses and nets, identifying different bird calls and looking closely at different native NZ plants/trees. Would love to get out again soon on another trip like this! Thank you very much for all the help and support from the mother helpers, was great to have you come along with us.

Spot the Kereru!

Kate and Kimberley fishing for insects

Sam looking through the magnifying glass to identify which insect he had found

Charlie found a duck egg!

Collage kereru

Park Detectives T20 today

A big thank you to all the parents we had on our trip to the Botanical Gardens. We were so lucky with the weather and the birds. Children and parents alike all did a lot of new learning!!!  Those piwakawaka 's were very cheeky. 

Cricket coaching

Native Birds

Here is the Department of Conservation site for finding out about our native birds.

Department of Conservation

Photos of our MLE

We do read to someone to practice our fluency and building stamina.

This is our ACTIVE chart if we do some thing help full or outstanding the teacher tells us to put our name up on the chart like this girl is. As soon as we fill it up we have a team assembly we have a draw and if our number gets pulled out we get a prize from the lucky prize box

This is our ORONGOMAI bird tree.

Read the saying!

This is where some of us choose a good fit book!

This is the wet room.This is were we do Art.On rainy days we eat our lunch in here.

The teachers don't have a staff room so they have morning tea and lunch in here.

This is our big meeting area in Kereru.

Certificates in ORONGOMAI this week

Well done to these children for receiving certificates in assembly this week.

Finn, for his fantastic grab bag writing.

Cameron, for always starting straight away and managing his time well in Daily 5.

Jorja, for using her thinking skills to complete a task working independently.

Ashton H, for being a helpful and considerate class member.

Lauren, for always being on task.

Year 3 children in totara reading to someone today. Well done to you all!!

First day of read to Someone in Kereru

Today was our first day of one of the favourite Daily 5 activities - Read to Someone, or Buddy Read. We did really well - over 5 minutes!